We all talk about the privileges of having a PLN and we agree that twitter is one of the most powerful tools for the educators to build your PLN. If you have a PLN, it means that you have a constant professional development network. However, if you think that twitter is just for professional development…
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the…
Schools have just closed and a nice summer holiday waits. Reading will be my most favourite activity in the long, lazy afternoons. This year was very fruitful for me. So many things have happened and so many things have changed in my life. This is because of the things I’ve been doing since September. So…
Twitter enables all of us to reach fabulous links. These are my recent favourites. I know it is possible to survive as a teacher without twitter, nings, PLNs yet teachers should know they are missing great stuff because they just have a PLN at school. 1. Braingle is a site where you can find brain teasers,…
Part of the series from my PLN It’s not rocket science, you may well be saying to yourself. Of course, filing your materials in A-Z format is the obvious way to keep organised! Well, not everyone may do this, so I would like to share some tips which have helped me over the years…
Joyce is one of the most difficult authors. It is not easy to understand him so he is not usually in high school teachers’ lists. However, if you have a class who loves reading short stories, you can give it a try to Dubliners. I’m not saying that we can read all the stories but…
Well, partly because I have classes with no football enthusiasm and as schools close this Friday, I can’t do any World Cup themed lessons with my students. I believe the event itself can be a great resource for a speaking activity. However, there are other great things which can be done while the world…
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…
Another school year is about to finish and we are about to announce the successful students. Yesterday with some colleagues we had a chat and found out how much we knew about each kid. Most of us know about their problems at home and unfortunately the majority of the kids do have problems. Some of…
As I said before, I really enjoyed this blog reading task partly because I love doing homework 🙂 and it allows me to discover more. If you like, make a cup of fresh coffee and do some extensive reading. I’ll start with Murphy’s Law for EFL teachers from Natasa’s blog. Natasa Bozic Grojic writes how…
If you are also about to finish the school year and need something else other than your course material, quotes are always good for wonderful activities. What can you do with them? 1. Write some of them on pieces of paper and stick to the walls and do wall dictation. 2. Jumble some of them…
On June 1st, we celebrated the Pen Pal Day together. This time we were more crowded. Actually we planned to be able to do it all together, 5 countries at the same time but time differences and our working hours didn’t allow us to do so. Arjana, Ana Maria and Guido got connected and had…
