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I’ve been teaching English since 1989. I started teaching in the 20th century but I want to be a 21st century teacher. I’m sure this blog will be a great opportunity for me to share what I know and to learn what I don’t know…
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When I read Emma Herrod’s post on planning a lesson, I started thinking about my own style. Emma’s post asks a lot of useful question to the teacher and there are wonderful contributions to the post in the comments sections. I really do agree with most of them and I had some more ideas how…
In project based learning we expect our students to create projects. Students are supposed to research and link all the subjects together and present their projects with the use of technology. This year we tried to use it in our classes but we still have some question marks. Say if the main subject is language…
I’m in my hotel room in Brighton now and thinking about the day. I attended Learning Technologies pre-conference event. The talks were on IWB. We started the day with Connie Gutenberg’s brief introduction. She demonstrated how she used it with her class. The texts she chose for the session were amazing. I really loved the…
One of my favourite writers for the ‘Reading Class’ is Roald Dahl. I’ve been using his short stories for almost a decade and the students have always loved them. I just came across with this pdf http://www.msad54.org/district/literacyspecialist/pdf/blooms.pdf But you can also get more ideas for using Bloom’s taxonomy in reading classes which I find…
I think writing is very important because when you write you can improve yourself. Writing games are also great activities. Here is one for you. Associations You can do it as a whole class activity if you have a small group. If you have more than 20 students may be you can do it as…
Motivation is what you get started. Habit is what keeps you going. Unknown We think that motivation is very important and it really is. It is one of the key factors to achieve our goals. However, it isn’t enough. Although you want to change the world, although you want to go one step further, you…
You are a real 21.century teacher !!!!!!!!!
thank you nazen for your support.