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Learning from Teaching & Sharing and the Secret Garden – What I got from #RSCON3
Last weekend I took part in the 3rd edition of the Reform Symposium Worldwide e-Conference. (you can learn more about it, watch the recordings from sessions and see archives from the past editions if...
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Teacher: Talk in pairs. Student: Why? – A Guest post by Willy Cardoso
Willy and I enjoying a bit of sunshine in Brighton, during IATEFL It is a great pleasure and honor to introduce my new guest blogger. I first met Willy on Twitter. Amazingly enough we had been in the...
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Does Size (in a classroom) Matter?
Big or small - a sizable conundrum As regular people, we are constantly faced with size choices. Big cars are more spacious – but also more difficult to find a parking space for. Big houses and...
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What are Errors and How Should We Deal With Them in Our Classes?
This week I was fortunate to be invited to write about language errors and how I approach them in my classes, for the new iTDi (International Teacher Development Institute) blog. Not only that, but I...
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Do You Ever….
How I've been feeling (photo by Kalexanderson - CC through Flickr) …feel discouraged, as a teacher? I’m going to take a risk here and say you have. As a teacher I sometimes feel like I am not doing my...
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Are We Adjusting?
Are we ready for the students we have? Something funny happened to me this last week… In a B1 (more like a B2, really) group of teens I have (14-15 years-old students) group I have we are discussing...
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Iatefl Blues, yellows and greens. And a sense of direction.
Blues, Yellows and Greens... Pick your color! (Photo by Max A Mauchline on ELTPics - CC license) Another Annual IATEFL Conference has come to an end. An intense week of attending presentations,...
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Teaching is like…
Brad Patterson felt the ELT Blogosphere was a bit quiet these days and decided to shake things up a bit by proposing a new blog challenge: What is you teaching metaphor? The challenge is very simple:...
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Hi, my name is Cecilia and I am a recovering recaster
A Recasters Anonymous Meeting… would you be in it? Setting: RA (Recasters Anonymous) Meeting, in a dark basement somewhere we can’t mention… Me: Hi, my name is Cecilia… and I am a recovering recaster....
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The Day a Bunch of Kisses Turned into Magic
It has been a long, looong while since I’ve last written here, in my blog. And before the last time it had also been a long while. I could use this post to explain the reason for the hiatus (which...
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