Life is challenging. Being a teacher and living a
life is sometimes even more! We all know that, so it should not come
as a surprise when we have obstacles we must overcome or decisions
that are hard to take. Being a teacher is a never-ending story – we
never stop learning…
Por mais que a gente possa tentar disfarçar, não tem como escapar da verdade dolorida que nosso país tem uma posição pífia no quesito performance em língua inglesa. Há anos não passamos das colocações baixíssimas. Mas os motivos para isso estão bem em nossa…
October
comes and brings with it not only initial flowers bloom in Brazil….
but it also brings children’s day. For us, teachers of kids and
young learners or even affectionate parents, it’s such a happy and
hopeful day! We love to celebrate it with smiles coming from…
Infelizmente, vivemos num país em que as mulheres sofrem muito com o comportamento inadequado de muitos homens e, até mesmo, de outras mulheres. Como professores, faz parte de nossa responsabilidade abordar esse assunto com maturidade em sala de aula. Na posição de…
Revisiting fabulous basic online tools – and learning how to put those adjectives in the correct order! - Richmond
10/09/2018
Nina Loback is Richmond Brazil’s Academic Coordinator for Language Schools. (You can read her complete biodata at the end of this post.) As Google has been around for more than 20 years now, we might forget how useful and rich a tool it can be in the language classroom.
Nina Loback is Richmond Brazil’s Academic Coordinator for Language Schools. (You can read her complete biodata at the end of this post.) The average typing speed is 41 words per minute, according to the database of an online game called 10 Fast Fingers. So, are you fast…
Reading takes us to faraway places even though we may have never been there. It stimulates creativity and conjures up vivid images in our mind that television and film often present to us on a plate. Reading also helps us to develop cognitive skills, which our brain uses to…
I have just returned from the 16th Braz-TESOL International Conference in Caxias do Sul, and I caught myself thinking: Do we really need associations? Nowadays, you can find most of what you need online and for free, schools and teachers offer great content on YouTube, blogs…
As teachers, sometimes it might be useful to stop and think exactly what kind of guidance, tools and general help our students need to get to that next level in their English studies. Perhaps a particular student has a gap in his/her learning, such as not knowing or being…
