Professional development demands making choices, sometimes very hard, sometimes very easy ones. The first choice is deciding to follow the path of growth in the career we decided to pursue in education. As Wallace (1991) mentioned, development has to be done by the teacher, nobody can develop for another person. However, teachers have the choice …
Story-telling is one of my favourite things to do with very young learners and I know I’m not alone. Stories have played a major role in early childhood education for a long time and are a key element in any good English programme for young children. Listening to and participating in stories requires a range of …
The earliest grammars of English were, for obvious reasons, based on written models of the language. In the absence of any way to record everyday speech, written texts provided a solid base upon which scholarly works could be built. In addition, both grammarians and lexicographers frequently had a deep mistrust of the spoken English language, …
When talking about 21st century skills, Ceri Jones’s approach involves questions – exploring them about the term “21st century skills “, and then how they can help up tackle these skills. So let’s think about the term itself: Why all the fuss about 21st century skills? If we take the reasoning from two respected sources, …
Blended learning is a very current teaching strategy, which offers teachers and schools a brand new perspective on how a class can be organized, meanwhile allows students to have more personalized learning experiences, what is proved to increase the engagement of these students and the learning itself. In short blended learning is a teaching modality …
“Hey, you (…) Together we stand, divided we fall” Perhaps the ELT world was not exactly what Mr. Waters bared in mind when he wrote this song for Pink Floyd. Nonetheless, it is undeniable that the message is meant for all of us, citizens of the world, language teachers. Being you a big fan …
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to walk from here ?” “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat. “I don ’t much care where” said Alice. “Then it doesn’t matter which way you walk,” said the Cat.” ― Lewis Carroll From a business point …
Ed Sheeran, a 26-year old British singer-songwriter, guitarist and record producer, is a huge success around the world. He is currently on his Divide tour and played recently in Curitiba, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Belo Horizonte. I went to his show last Sunday and it was spectacular. Allianz Parque in São Paulo …