I took a challenge this month. Yes, it’s EVO time and there are wonderful sessions for every teacher’s needs. As I’m a big fan of using digital tools in the classroom I decided to take the Digital Storytelling for Young Learners. The course is moderated by a dream team, Shelly Terrell, Esra Girgin, Barbara Sakamoto,…
On Tuesday this week, I had my first lesson of the new year after the Christmas break. I wanted to do a session where the students would reflect and make resolutions. I had some wordles(I prepared them for another lesson but hadn’t used) with quotes and proverbs on learning, motivation and acieving goals. I put the…
Nowadays I’m in need of a good collaborative writing tool and while searching I’ve come across with these goodies. Have a look, you will like some of them. StudentPublishing.com I liked the tool as it allows students to draw pictures, upload from desktop and create and publish their stories. You will also find lesson plans,…
It’s that time of the year again….. Time for feedback, time for resolutions…. Here I go! What happened to me last year? Oh how much I owe to twitter and my PLN, I really can’t express that. Last year’s number 1 event was my blogathon experience. I couldn’t win the GOLD but I was lucky…
Comenius Multilateral Projects are funded by EU, lifelong learning programmes and after a long search, we finally have a Comenius project for 2011-2013 Academic Years. Our project is called ‘The Magic of Reading, The Power of Discovering Ourselves’. We have 6 partners and we have just started our exciting journey to discover ourselves. The teachers…
Adam Simpson on his blog challenged us to revist 11 posts that we wrote in 2011 and here I’m listing my favourite posts from 2011. 1. Teachers with Voices : This one is written at teachingenglish.org.uk for the blogathon. 2. Teachers as Storytellers 3.Challenging the Demotivated 4. A Poetry Lesson 5.Songs in EFL Classroom 6….
‘Turning Challenges into Opportunities’ was called the conference and it really helped us to see the opportunities that lay ahead us. A teacher who is eager to teach and overcome obstacles will always find ways to turn challenges into opportunities. I’d like to thank all the Dogus University conference organisers, stuff and students who tried to…
It is too difficult to do this but ı feel I have to 🙁 I wish there were more categories ..2011 Categories
dedication team spirit dignity passion joy from what they have been doing motivation self-confidence pride of the work they have been doing ambition enthusiasm hospitality cheerful hardworking friendly well-organised and many more ….. Sometimes sentences are not enough to describe certain things if you are not a talented author or a poet. People like…
The following activity was something spontaneous when we did ‘indirect questions’ but then I felt the students still needed practice, something more like a mechanical drill but I was not prepared for more exercises so I did the folllowing. I told mys sts to have 4 slips of paper. On each paper, I told them…
Last week we revised modals with my year 12 students and after doing a lot of exercises, tests, etc ( they are studying for the university entrancre exam and they will take the language exam so they need to master the grammar and the skills as well) I realised they still got confused as most of…
Here are some activities you can use when teaching descriptions. Characteristics: Agree on a list of 5 people known to students Dictate words and phrases which describe the people chosen Students write the descriptions you dictate beneath the name of the person they think is referred to. Rights/ Wrongs Choose something to describe. Tell…
