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The Art of Storytelling as Curriculum

19 de fevereiro de 2017

Our humanity is expressed through our stories. More than ever before educators are in the look for different ways to engage their students by telling their own pieces of stories each class they meet their students, but they are also aiming to help their learners to tell their own stories. By doing that, a transformative...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Educational Technology, Lesson Ideas, Technology

classroom, cogdog, digital education, digital resources, digitalstorytelling, npr, storycorps, storytelling

Using songs in the classroom

6 de dezembro de 2016

by Ricardo Barros

If you had been my student at around 2010 on of your complaints would have been that I never used songs in my lessons. Earlier in my career I used songs quite frequently, in that gap-fill let’s-kill-some-time kind of way. However, as I became more experienced, I realised that this kind of activity is not...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Lesson Ideas, Skills

Classroom experiences, communication, creativity, EFL, elt, esl, songs, student engagement

Making lesson more relevant with positive TTT: Listening

10 de agosto de 2016

by Rubens Heredia

A lot can be found in ELT books about how to use a range of different tasks and activities in order to make lessons more engaging and the promise of making learning fun has certainly spawned generations of resource books. Yet, although words on our role of selecting and designing activities are ubiquitous, little is...Read More

Classroom Management, Lesson Ideas, Skills

instructions, Listening

Preparing something different: Podcasts

27 de julho de 2016

by Laura Miccoli

Hi Everyone! Teachers are on holidays, which they most deserve! Yet, more likely than not teachers will take some time of their vacation time to prepare something different for their students. With that in my mind, in this post I’d like to share with teachers some of the sites I have found on the Internet...Read More

Lesson Ideas

activities, internet, listening activities, podcasts

“Close Encounters of the Third Kind”* – Part I

20 de março de 2016

by Edmilson Chagas

Or “When Pre-Teens First Meet the Dreaded Older Male Teacher” Based on a true story. When I thought about writing this post, thinking back to the time when I first started teaching was unavoidable. I was quite young, in my early 20’s, when I was asked to teach some groups of...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Lesson Ideas, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

disruptive behavior, pre-teens, rapport, setting ground rules, teaching teenagers

10 Top Tips to Encourage Extensive Reading

12 de março de 2016

by Stephen Greene

I once had the great pleasure to see the funniest comedian ever doing his stand-up routine live at my university. I was only a few weeks into my first term when I saw the flyers going around advertising Bill Hicks in the student union. I persuaded a couple of new-found friends to go with me...Read More

Lesson Ideas, Skills

Extensive reading, reading, Top tips

Adapting lessons to learners’ profile

29 de fevereiro de 2016

by Marcela Cintra

Last month we looked at getting to know who your students are and the main purpose of having information about them is to focus on their needs when planning lessons, to adjust their expectations to the course goals. If you work in schools or language institutes, courses you teach usually have a core syllabus that all teachers...Read More

Lesson Ideas, Teacher Development

Who are your learners?

30 de janeiro de 2016

by Marcela Cintra

New term and new groups bring teachers the challenge and the opportunity to build new connections and experiment with their teaching repertoire in different contexts. Also, new students tend to bring different needs, a plethora of expectations and demand a variety of skills from the teachers. That means the classroom is our greatest lab for professional growth. In order to make...Read More

Lesson Ideas, Teacher Development

Blind to Brazil(s)

6 de janeiro de 2016

by Natália Guerreiro

Today is January 6th, which in Brazil is called ‘Dia de Reis’, a day in honor of the three Wise Men. Having grown up in Rio, I used to think January 6th was nothing but a day to take Christmas decorations down. Then one day, as an adult already, I happened to be in Piauí...Read More

Lesson Ideas, Reflections about Education

bias, culture, festivals, teaching culture

The Twelve Memes of Christmas : a seasonal homework challenge

6 de dezembro de 2015

by Ceri Jones

To keep your students busy over the holidays and to practise some digital remix literacy, here’s a little challenge. As you can see, it’s based on the carol, The Twelve Days of Christmas, and to introduce the challenge and get into the remixing mood, there’s nowhere better to start than the song itself and some...Read More

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