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Making it Visible: Shedding Light on What Happens Beyond the Book

29 de agosto de 2023

Multiple choice: Your kid came home singing in English and you: a) record a video and share it in the family group chat b) congratulate their English teacher c) believe the school’s bilingual program is a success d) try to find the song in the coursebook A school is a place filled with stimuli,...Read More

Bilingual Education, Language Acquisition

education, EFL, elt, Language acquisition, Second-language acquisition

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

challenges, classroom activity, Classroom experiences, critical thinking, education, educational technology, EFL, elt, engagement, technology

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

challenges, Classroom experiences, education, EFL, elt, innovation, innovation-in-education, reflection

Meaning over form

21 de julho de 2020

by Ana Carolina Calil

Friday, 6p.m., the deafening bell rang. Surely there had been meetings in which “the bell issue” had come to light, but there was never enough time to actually do something about it. The empty halls were taken by running bodies who dragged half-open backpacks and screamed as if they had been held captive for way...Read More

#StaySafe

Classroom experiences, covid-19, Covid-19 Lockdown, EFL, elt, reflection, teaching

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

-taskbasedteaching, -TBLT, bilingual-education, career, challenges, Classroom experiences, critical thinking, EFL, elt, Language acquisition

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

#StaySafe, Classroom Experiences

-communicativeapproach, career, challenges, Classroom experiences, education, EFL, elt, Language acquisition, professional development

Online Lessons – Using TPR – Part 1

15 de maio de 2020

by Beatriz Solino de Francisco

First of all, I’d like to send a warm hug to everyone who is reading this post. We have been living under stressful moments due to an emergency lockdown caused by the COVID-19. As you know, and based on your own needs, families require your full attention, exceptionally now. You are no longer “only” teaching...Read More

#StaySafe, Classroom Experiences

-tprinonlinelessons, challenges, Classroom experiences, creativity, EFL, elt, teacher development

SWOT analysis to improve personal feedback

4 de outubro de 2019

by Beatriz Solino de Francisco

Have you ever heard of the SWOT analysis? It comes from the Administration and Management of a business. This technique is credited to Albert Humphrey, who led this research project at Stanford University in the 60s, using data from many top companies. His goals failed at the time, but the SWOT analysis had yet a...Read More

Career

career, challenges, critical thinking, EFL, feedback, professional development, reflection, teacher development

The secret handshake

13 de setembro de 2019

by Ana Carolina Calil

Year: 1999. Group: Basic 1. Place: Uberaba, MG – Brasil. Seventeen-year-old Ana Carolina stepped into a classroom for the first time. Young, restless, feeling entitled by her recently acquired C2 diploma and, most importantly: raw. Fluent, for sure. After one year of isolation from all Portuguese speakers in a cultural exchange program before cell phones...Read More

Bilingual Education, Career, Classroom Experiences, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

career, education, EFL, professional development, teacher development, teacher training, teaching

Why do school projects succeed or fail?

9 de setembro de 2019

by Beatriz Solino de Francisco

If you work in a language Institution or in a (high) school as a teacher, a coordinator or if you are a school principal or owner, you are aware that cultural events are a substantial part of the breakdown. Any school events or activities that entail cultural and social fronts are providing the students an...Read More

ELT Management

career, challenges, EFL, elt, reflection

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