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Marcela Cintra

Romancing the Zone

2 de março de 2023

Much has been discussed lately about the impact of the pandemic on teaching/ teachers and how much we wanted to go back to ‘normal’. I have to confess that the one thing I really did not want to go back to was what we used to call our modus operandi, our comfort zone in English language...Read More

Career, Teacher Development

ChatGPT and the future of teaching: some reflections

2 de fevereiro de 2023

by Marcela Cintra

The past couple of months have witnessed some uproar on what chatGPT bot is able to do. There is fear of a ‘threat’ to our jobs and to teaching and learning. I may not know much, but I learned earlier in life that everything changes and we evolve. Perhaps technology has brought us yet another...Read More

Career, Educational Technology, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development, Trends in ELT

(Re)connecting the dots…

2 de dezembro de 2022

by Marcela Cintra

This year many of us focussed on making sense of the post-pandemic world and how similar or different it is from what we grew used to until 2020. When discussing the changes and challenges, most colleagues I talked to referred to remote work, new technologies, new tools that we started considering more carefully and that...Read More

Sin categoría

Assessment and motivation: end-of-year debates

30 de novembro de 2019

by Marcela Cintra

Assessment has always been an area of great debate among ELT professionals, given its apparent intangibility in connection to the real use of the language. Many of us have been faced with learners watching TV in English and getting back to class saying they understood nothing the actors said, thus questioning the evaluation system that...Read More

Reflections about Education

assessment, emphaty

Peace in the era of extreme choices

30 de agosto de 2019

by Marcela Cintra

Lately, we seem to have been facing the social need to shout out opinions and to pick sides. The political scenario may have contributed to generalised polarised behaviour even in education. For me, and I believe for so many of my friends and peers, there is very little chance that one can work in the...Read More

Reflections about Education

elt

To grammar or not to grammar

30 de junho de 2019

by Marcela Cintra

As the title may reveal, the language is in constant change, no one owns it and everybody does. Therefore, we can all play with it as we wish. Can we? While some of us stand as the grammar police to correct tests, written tasks, posts on Facebook or so many other things people say and...Read More

Grammar, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development, Trends in ELT

Will teachers be replaced by technology?

30 de maio de 2019

by Marcela Cintra

Exactly twenty years ago, doing research on the use of technology in language learning for my first MA, one of the questions I was often asked was the one on the title. Teachers, publishers, learners seemed to have various theories on how, when, why technology would or not replace teachers. The concern seems to be as...Read More

Reflections about Education

Courage and education: perspectives in the era of turmoil

30 de abril de 2019

by Marcela Cintra

The educational field has been suffering attacks from all parts of society, in Brazil and around the world – differences do apply. This post is a reflection about the courage needed to make significant changes to the current scenario – that of turmoil where teachers, parents, students, the society seem to be taking to each...Read More

Career, Reflections about Education

BNCC, education, english-language-teacher

Collaboration in the classroom: whose responsibility?

30 de março de 2019

by Marcela Cintra

One of the current buzz words in education is collaboration. From kindergarten to doctorate learners, many teachers claim to develop collaboration with their groups. I have recently discussed the matter with a group of teachers working in different contexts (language institutes, primary school, undergraduate courses) and the understanding of the concept of collaboration seems blurred at...Read More

Career, Reflections about Education

bilingual, collaboration, elt, linguistic-skills

A great place to learn: the staff room

30 de janeiro de 2019

by Marcela Cintra

Many of us made great friends in the staff room, bonding with peers on a regular basis, sharing a variety of moments when we spend most of the day in the school. The environment is usually where teachers keep their materials, books and where many of us have our snacks and coffee. An informal professional...Read More

Teacher Development

school-culture, teacher-expectation, teacher-learning

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