Teaching English to children at a public school in Vitória/ES
If you have read my June post, you may recall that it was about how I designed the syllabus and created the modules I work on with my 6-to-10-year-old students at a public school in Vitória/ES. This month, you…
Before talking about the importance of reflective teaching, it is crucial to define what it is. Reflective teaching is all about looking at what you do in the classroom, gathering information, analyzing and reflecting on the things that are being done, and why they are being…
The challenges of teaching and learning idiomatic expressions (idioms) - Ricardo Madureira
24/06/2016
Idiomatic expressions pose an exciting challenge to students because their individual words take on a new meaning when the expression is considered as a whole and what is more, some expressions are completely opaque (that is, obscure in meaning), even when the students know…
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…
Summer holidays are often cherished moments for teachers and learners, especially in regular schools. In language institutes, the scenario is usually different, as many students enroll for intensive courses. In any case, it is not the ordinary school term and it may be a…
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…
Nowadays teaching English by skype is becoming more common as it more convenient for many people to have an English lesson in their office, house or even hotel where they are staying on business. In this article, I would like to offer some simple, but effective techniques…
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…
Marcela Cintra –
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…
