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Eduardo Trindade

Are we ready to change your role?

6 de junho de 2019

Curiously, I have posted a variation of this article on a blog I used to update, almost 10 years ago. Unfortunately the question is still up to date. In recent years, one of the main discussions in the educational business has been about finding the proper ways to face the growing need to move from...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Classroom Management, Educational Technology, Teacher Development, Technology, Trends in ELT

The PDCA Continuous Improvement Cycle

6 de abril de 2019

by Eduardo Trindade

Have you ever heard of a continuous improvement cycle called the PDCA cycle? I am sure most of you who have already studied a little bit of business management have certainly come across this acronym before. But for those of you who haven’t studied any business theories, PDCA is an acronym that stands for Plan-Do-Check-Act....Read More

Career, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

continuous improvement, improvement cycle, PDCA, teacher development

We All Need Peace Education

6 de fevereiro de 2019

by Eduardo Trindade

While deciding on the theme for my February post, I thought of the growing wave of intolerance, prejudice, hate crimes, etc., especially in Brazil, and I decided to write about Peace Education and ways in which we can implement peace education-focused instruction into the daily lives of regular schools in Brazil. Before giving you some...Read More

Reflections about Education

negative-peace, peace-education, positive-peace

Five Tips for Working with Song Lines

6 de janeiro de 2019

by Eduardo Trindade

As a musician myself, I have always loved working with songs in my English classes. And a lot of teachers I know also love doing so. But we usually use the entire song and its lyrics, and this can be a problem in early levels, as we will rarely be able to find a song...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Lesson Ideas

english-class, musician, song-lines, Tips

Using Jing in language teaching

6 de novembro de 2018

by Eduardo Trindade

Have you ever used Jing for anything in your language teaching experience? Have you ever heard of it? I am asking you these questions because I have been suggesting the use of this nice tool in my educational technology workshops for over 7 years now. But it’s still interesting to notice that a lot of teachers all over...Read More

Educational Technology, Resources, Sin categoría, Teacher Development, Technology, Trends in ELT

blended learning, digital tools, educational-technology, feedback, Jing, technology

The Translanguaging Pedagogy: Friend or Foe?

6 de setembro de 2018

by Eduardo Trindade

Translanguaging is a term that was first coined in 1994 as trawsieithu (translanguaging in Welsh) by Welsh researcher Cen Williams in order to refer to the processes in which English and Welsh were used for different reasons and purposes in the same class. For example, students would read or listen to content in English and...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Language Acquisition, Learner Autonomy, Reflections about Education, Trends in ELT

bilingualism, CLIL, codeswitching, Essential Questions, translanguage, translanguaging

Flipping the Classroom with Essential Questions

6 de julho de 2018

by Eduardo Trindade

The most important single characteristic of the flipped classroom is the fact that classroom time is not used for content presentation, but rather for group discussions about students’ findings and further investigation. So, going back to the two questions I’ve asked on my first post, on the 6th of June, I believe we already have...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Lesson Ideas, Reflections about Education, Trends in ELT

21st century, Essential Questions, flipped classroom, Glasser's Pyramid, Inquiry-based learning, UbD, Understanding Questions

The School of the 21st Century

6 de junho de 2018

by Eduardo Trindade

Just like many readers of this blog, I was born and raised in the pre Google era. Actually, I am not sure there really is such a historical division, but I truly recommend one for those studying history. The world has dramatically changed after Google, and these changes have affected a lot of areas, including...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Reflections about Education

Classroom experiences, education, educational-revolution, engagement, flipped classroom, reflection, teaching-english