Louise Potter –
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…
Daniela A. Meyer –
Which vocabulary words or phrases do you remember best? How did you learn them? How often do you use them when speaking English? How does your brain retrieve them? As Jeanne McCarten stated in Cambridge University Press’s pedagogical booklet…
Daniel Shiro –
How many times have you been through the following steps? You give instructions to set up an activity
You monitor learners from a distance
You stop the learners and the activity
You ask learners for their answers.
You provide correction.
You move on…
Daniel Shiro –
Reflecting on your own teaching, your beliefs and your skills is never easy. It is however the alternative to spending years and years teaching the same way, with the same examples and the same results – which are sometimes far from the results you…
Mistakes teachers make when teaching reading, grammar, vocabulary and writing - Ricardo Madureira
24/03/2016
Ricardo Madureira –
Many teachers of English have not undergone adequate preparation to face the real classroom. They take part in one-week crash training courses and are expected to go to the real world and ‘apply’ what they have been instructed to do, as if the…
Louise Potter – What is professional development?
It is defined as “ the process of improving staff skills and competencies needed to produce outstanding educational results for students” (Hassel, 1999).
Many times we come across teachers who are constantly…
