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Last weekend I attended a 2-day-professional development workshops on etwinning for beginners. I must say I learned a lot. I’ve been registered etwinning with a hope to find a Comenius project partner for almost a year but attending the workshops I realised I knew nothing about the site. Etwinning gives teachers a wonderful opportunity to…
Eventually My Journey in TEFL is celebrating her 1st birthday in blogosphere. I’m so glad that I started blogging. I believe September is a very lucky month for me. I’m not going to reveal everything but many good things in my life all started in September. Everything started last year on 5th of September with…
This is a fun activity that I found from ESLCafe years ago and I love using it once every year. It’s even great to team your students for their group works. Group the students as the 1st child, middle child, youngest child of their family or a single child. Prepare a handout with some questions similar…
image taken from here I really enjoyed reading the posts of my PLN about their teaching approaches. I thought we have lots of things in common, the flexibility, being student centred, etc. However, I tried to name mine. I guess my teaching approach is more or less similar but let’s look at the classroom…
It’s summer in the Northern Hemisphere and that means schools are close and we are on holiday. That’s good because it gives us a chance to relax, read and have some ‘me’ time. That’s also good because during this time we can do something for professional development just attending some workshops, reading books, even cleaning…
I believe from the moment we enter the classroom, our aim should be to help our students see where their learning journey is taking them to so the first day activities are important to give them some clues too. You can adapt the activities below according to your classes. If they are new comers this…
Well, I’m not happy with the look of my blog. I used Blue Zinfandel Enhanced by Brian Gardne which is very modern,simple and easy to look and read. However, I wanted something more energetic and decided to make a change. Changes are sometimes very good and they save us. Don’t we change our hair colour…
Can you finish the following sentences so that they will be true for you? I love using sentence starters as a warmer, filler or a grammar/vocabulary activity. Whenever you feel you’re stuck in the lesson, dictate some sentence halves and ask your students to finish them so that they will be true for them. Then…
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…
I’m thinking aloud … Every year we graduate groups of kids and they just fly away to the real world. Some of them manage to enter the best universities in the country, some of them are luckier with some financial support from their parents, some of them have no support at all, other than the…
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…
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…
