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Achieving Harmony in Teaching and Personal Life

22 de março de 2023

As a teacher or teacherpreneur, it is easy to become overwhelmed by the demands of the job. Lesson planning, grading, checking homework, and doing administrative tasks can quickly pile up, leaving little – if any – time for leisure activities. However, finding a healthy work-life balance is crucial for maintaining physical and mental well-being, and...Read More

Career, Reflections about Education

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Before we worry about ChatGPT, let’s enjoy it

22 de fevereiro de 2023

by Henrique Zamboni

If you’re a teacher, it is very unlikely that you haven’t heard about ChatGPT. But in case you haven’t, to put it simply, ChatGPT is a chatbot developed by OpenAI and launched in November 2022. This tool has raised many concerns among many professionals, but especially educators as ChatGPT is likely to be used by...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Educational Technology, Lesson Ideas, Reflections about Education, Resources, Technology, Trends in ELT

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New Year’s Resolutions

21 de janeiro de 2023

by Ana Carolina Calil

resolution / ˌrɛz əˈlu ʃən / 2. the act of resolving or determining upon an action, course of action, method, procedure, etc. 3. a resolve; a decision or determination: to make a firm resolution to do something. 4. the mental state or quality of being resolved or resolute; firmness of purpose. Here we go again…...Read More

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career, challenges, motivation, professional development, reflection, teacher development

My Innovative Teaching Dilemma

4 de setembro de 2021

by Beatriz Solino de Francisco

Last month, we talked about the innovator teacher’s dilemma, and I would like to share my innovative experience with you. I’m sure you have already heard of: Cross over teaching, Teaching through smart boards, Flipped classrooms Collaborative Teaching Using Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) Technology and innovative methods of teaching And more Are...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Reflections about Education, Technology

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The innovator teacher’s dilemma

4 de agosto de 2021

by Beatriz Solino de Francisco

Are you tired of listening or reading about how innovative teachers must be in the classroom? Especially now, during and after the covid-19 (years 2020 – 2021) when we were forced to reinvent ourselves and our classroom? Why are you tired of it? Maybe because it is tiring to be always looking for different ways...Read More

Classroom Experiences

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Jazzing it up: Lessons from Miles Davis for our professional development

2 de dezembro de 2020

by Natália Guerreiro

As you will probably agree, inspiration comes from the most unusual places. Just now, I felt so moved by a Netflix documentary about the jazz genius Miles Davis that I had to come here and write about the lessons I believe his career may bring to our professional development as teachers. “The Musings of...Read More

#StaySafe, Inclusive Teaching, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

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3 Things I’ve Learned from Teaching Teens Online

16 de julho de 2020

by Henrique Zamboni

An increased interest in online teaching has emerged in recent years. Such interest has become even more prominent due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the quarantine, during which teachers worldwide had to take up online teaching overnight. Many of us had been teaching adults – or taken online lessons and courses ourselves – for a...Read More

#StaySafe, Classroom Experiences, Educational Technology, Reflections about Education, Technology

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Online Lessons – Using Task-based Language Teaching – Part 3

25 de maio de 2020

by Beatriz Solino de Francisco

The use of this current communicative approach is very common in the English lesson field. We always tend to use a task as the topic of the lesson and ask students to perform this task at the end of this lesson. As the name states TBLT, also known as TBI (task-based instruction) focuses on the...Read More

#StaySafe, Classroom Experiences

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Vulnerability

18 de maio de 2020

by Henrique Zamboni

I’ve always felt that in order to be a good teacher for my students I had to be at the top of my game all the time. This means having to let go of all worries and problems from the outside-of-the-classroom world while teaching, and I managed to make that happen for over a decade....Read More

Classroom Experiences, Reflections about Education

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Online Lessons – Using Communicative Language Teaching – Part 2

18 de maio de 2020

by Beatriz Solino de Francisco

Coronavirus day 3.648: It feels like that, right? At least, it does for me. Since this has all begun and we started teaching remotely, I have been re-reading all my academic books, trying to find various other approaches and/or methods for dealing with “emergency remote teaching” in a way that lessons will be meaningful, not...Read More

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