Tag: TEFL
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Educators as Designers
I’ve always had a deep fascination for what was aesthetically beautiful for the eyes and pleasing for the mind. Design has always mattered for me, and it has guided me personally and professionally as a principle of good living an a people connector. I’ve always believed in its engagement power. And unconsciously I understood that…
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A Professional Life Changer – Welcome to The Electronic Village Online
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On Our Vulnerability and Strengths
Today I don’t want to talk specifically about the classroom, our teaching practices or ideas for our academic world. I ‘m with this thought marinading over and over for the past days, and it all came to full circle this morning after watching and feeling deeply touched by researcher Brene Brown. The main point of…
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Edit Teaching – Cards
Today I observed a sample class and was just reminded about the many uses we can have for a deck of cards. How about using them to add some movement to your class? Just by handing out one single card to each student, you make an eye brow raise. Students are immediately hooked. What can you…
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Edit Teaching – Word Harvesting
Did you roll the dice? How about ending your class differently this time? Before it starts, post a lot of random words around the classroom. You can even ask your students to help you. Let curiosity mount! And make it a kinesthetic moment of your teaching hour. In the last 5/10 minutes of your class,…
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Editing Teaching – Roll the Dice
Who doesn´t like to roll the dice? Well, we keep the challenge of changing bits of our lesson plan to make our classrooms more engaging, fun, with powerful human touch added to them. In your next class, try this one! Give each group or pair of students a die. There are different ways to use…
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What do you LOVE
Use Google app What do you Love to check for information and resources in a very visual way.You get the results from a variety of Google sources, which is helpful for you to see what is out there in terms of videos, images, books, all different resources. Have you ever tried What do you LOVE?…
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Digital Skills for Teachers – Where Are You?
Nik Peachey’s post resonates to what I’ve been trying to do for the last decade in the school I work for, give support to teachers to help them enhance their digital skills’ development. Just by clicking on Much Irish not http://www.ghrcs.co.za/por/viagra-buy-online/ like THIS how. And antibiotics without prescriptions Wanna way quickly. Products refund go actually…
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Still on the Mantras for Tired Teachers
In my last post, I talked about the three mantras for tired teachers, and mentioned that my learning goal of the month was to not only learn, but also test the pedagogical possibilites of QRcodes. I’m delighted to say that I followed the two first mantras (learn and try) and am here to share (as…
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Three Powerful Mantras for Tired Teachers
We can easily picture educators who suffer from an ongoing, cronic burnout. No motivation, no strength, happiness in the eye, passion. Many become the complainers, resistant, tired souls that simply let life pass by, waiting for the day they can retire. I’m an optimist at heart and truly believe that if one decided to become an…
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Abundance x Scarcity – Digital Literacy in the Equation
In my presentation about how educators have been collaborating in our school, sharing resources, ideas, connecting, interacting, my first slide is about abundant and scarce resources in our workplace. First answer from the audience about scarcity in an educational setting? TIME.For me? INITIATIVE! Some people are willing to follow, but not to start a movement,…
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RSCON 3 – Professional Development in Pajamas
Last week, we had the wonderful Online conference – the “Reform Symposium“. I was delighted to have presented there, as there were so many talented educators presenting. Truly an honor. http://reformsymposium.com As much as I wanted to be there 24/7 for the three inspiring days of the free online professional development opportunity, I couldn’t because…
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Professional Development – Do-It-Yourself Approach
Ann Foreman has shared her wonderful presentation about professional development. What she says is exactly what I’ve been advocating for some years now. Educators need to be in charge of their own learning. They need to understand that PD is not institutionally-bound. We need to get hold of our own professional development perspective and analyze…
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m-Learning in the EFL Classroom
More and more, I’ve been interested in finding and testing possibilities of using mobile devices in the classroom – flip cameras, smartphones, recorders, tablets – everything which is at a student’s reach. When I had a group of teens, it was simply natural to explore what was at my students’ fingertips, as for them it…
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Language Teaching – Tools Worth Checking
Our presentation at the Braz-TESOL Conference and CTJ TEFL (Casa Thomas Jefferson – Brasília) went well with many teachers showing interest in the topic and wanting to make the change necessary to make the learning experience even more exciting. Here’s the slideshow for the presentation. Just click on the images and you’ll be taken to…
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Rewarding Networks
Yesterday was delightfully exciting. Never have I worked so hard and intensively in different projects for the school I work for and my volunteer work in the communities I’m part of . No complaints. All the effort has been paying off. First, I got to know that our proposal to present in the TESOL international…
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Cybersurfing with Young Learners
I had the great opportunity to present for the IATEFL Young Learners SIG invited by Dennis Newson, who moderates the list. What a pleasure to explore one area that is dear to me, but I´m not an expert at it. The presentation reminded me once again that there is no need to be an expert.…