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The Work Behind The Scenes

22 de novembro de 2022

While scrolling through my Instagram feed I usually come across a lot of posts from teachers who advertise themselves as super organized and productive. It does make sense since being a teacher requires a set of skills that we learn to develop throughout the years. Another kind of post which is usually seen is the...Read More

Career, Inclusive Teaching, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

career, reflection, social media, teacher training, teaching

Trapped in the dark web of technology

19 de março de 2019

by Teresa Carvalho

When I was teaching teenagers, I frequently discussed online safety. Cyberbullying, phishing scams and the typical 419 Nigerian prince scam were among our class topics and we would laugh hard at the absurd grammar errors in the spam email letters. However, I have recently learned that the gross grammar errors and the far-fetched stories featured...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Learner Autonomy, Reflections about Education, Resources, Technology

online predators, sharing content, social media

Your institution needs you in order to survive

29 de janeiro de 2019

by Isabela Villas Boas

In these times of fierce competition in the education market, if you work for an ELT institute or a school, it is not enough to be a great teacher and focus only on teaching a good class. In order to be a valued and valuable professional, there are many things you can do inside and...Read More

ELT Management, Reflections about Education

education-market, institution, job, knowledge, social media

A matter of balance – women as plenary speakers

2 de novembro de 2017

by elainehodgson

If you have spent some time online in the past months, particularly on Facebook, you may have come across a number of posts followed by hundreds of comments, basically related to gender equality, or lack of it, in ELT events. Gender equality in general is an issue that has been discussed for a long time,...Read More

Career, Reflections about Education

career, challenges, conferences, critical thinking, education, EFL, elt, engagement, professional development, social media, teacher development

Will feminism change ELT?

2 de fevereiro de 2017

by elainehodgson

The word feminism is not new, though the understanding of the concept seems to have changed. We shifted from the image of women burning bras in the 60’s to the powerful image of the most recent Women’s March in the United States and in other countries demanding equal rights. I emphasise the word equal and...Read More

Career, Reflections about Education

career, conferences, critical thinking, Facebook, materials, social media

Diversity and the danger of having an opinion about what you don’t know

2 de novembro de 2016

by elainehodgson

A couple of months ago a friend of mine reported on his page on Facebook a situation that had happened to his son at school. It was a Portuguese lesson and the focus was defining and non-defining relative clauses. To cut a long story short, my friend’s son defended that that the sentence My father...Read More

Reflections about Education

Classroom experiences, critical thinking, EFL, elt, elt mantras, Facebook, materials, professional development, social media, teaching

Is there enough room for critical thinking in the EFL classroom?

2 de abril de 2016

by elainehodgson

Just like in March, I’ll begin by reproducing a photo that was in newspapers and social media last month and that proved extremely controversial, raising heated discussions on the Internet. Well, I believe you have probably seen it and possibly read lots of arguments, both defending and criticising all sorts of aspects in the photo....Read More

Reflections about Education

Classroom experiences, critical thinking, EFL, engagement, motivation, social media

Teaching with Instagram

30 de março de 2015

by Carla Arena

Instagram is part of my daily life, and I know it is also very popular among our teen students and some adults. Though the focus is social, the imagery and, depending on the user you follow, Instagram can be a very powerful teaching/learning tool. You can explore with students from grammar aspects of the language...Read More

Educational Technology, Lesson Ideas, Technology

classroom, EFL, Instagram, lessonplan, social media

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