Teaching English to 6-to-10-year-old children at a public school in Vitória/ES - Paulo Torres
23/06/2016
It all started in February 2013. After passing a public contest in 2012, I had to choose the school I was going to work at. Among the possibilities was a school which had never offered English as a modern language before. I ended up choosing this school because I would have…
How often do you actually stop what you are doing in order to analyze your objectives as a teacher? Have you recently asked yourself why you are teaching? What and how you are teaching? In addition, most importantly, who you are teaching? Teacher development starts…
In my last post, I talked about the different cultural aspects we can teach in our classrooms. Today I’d like to focus on the notion of cultural competence. As teachers, we are very aware of what it means to be linguistically competent. In fact I would go as far as to say…
In order to stimulate critical thinking among our students we need to foster creativity, participation and allow them to ask questions about topics that are of their interest. Questioning and inquiry should be part of their routine, as well as problem solving and…
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My April post was about using songs in class. In order to exemplify some of the tips given, I decided to prepare a song activity. This activity was prepared for an A2 group and we were working on weather words. Below you will find the instructions and…
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One of the important steps I pointed out in the previous blog referring to lesson planning was to include different learning skills in your class plan. What are learning strategies?
They are conscious steps or behaviors used by language learners…
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When asked about our students we, all remember the brilliant or the devilish ones. We boast about those students who excelled in their studies or professional lives because of our lessons or laugh at the displays of misbehaviour we faced throughout…
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Some years ago, when I used to attend English Teaching conferences on a more regular basis, I remember hearing from my colleagues in the ELT field something in the lines of “I don’t teach grammar”, and they would say that in a supercilious…
Choosing and preparing a song for a class activity may be a hard task. Here are some tips on how to select and prepare a song activity, not necessarily in the order presented. Songs have to be appropriate to the level of proficiency of students and intelligible;
Take…
