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Helping colleagues with teacher-burnout

March 14, 2011

<![CDATA[ Last week’s #ELTchat focused on teacher burn-out and here is the summary contributed by Priscilla Santos @teacher_prix on Twitter! Many thanks, Priscilla:-) #ELTchat Summary March 9, 2011. How can we best help burnt-out colleagues? How do we help them get their enthusiasm back and encourage sharing and support? The chat was kicked off by…
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Advance Organisers – How they Connect the Reading Experience

February 28, 2011

Reading is a highly complex activity and, yet, in the foreign language classroom, it is often approached as if texts are just collections of words and grammatical patterns which students, if only they could analyse and decipher them, would be able to arrive at the overall meaning of the text. But, is this what happens…
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#ELTchat – 99,052 Tweets and counting!

January 29, 2011

<![CDATA[ This is not the image a heartbeat. It’s the burst of energy of hundreds of tweets which are sent by the many ELT professionals participating in an online discussion called #ELTchat every Wednesday at two different times, at 12:00 p.m. GTM and at 21:00 p.m. GMT. What is #ELTchat? Every Wednesday at 12:00 p.m.…
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Merry Christmas Wishes to my PLN!

December 27, 2010

<![CDATA[ …. and thank you notes to all those who affected my professional life in the past year This has been an amazing year for this blog and this member of a strong and ever-widening PLN. My Christmas stocking is filled already with the gift of friendship of an amazing group of colleagues from the…
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My Nominations for Edublogs Awards 2010

December 3, 2010

<![CDATA[A hard choice since I follow so many great bloggers – but a choice had to be made and here are my nominations for the Edublog Awards 2010 Best individual blog Scott Thornbury’ Blog An A-Z of ELT for generating some of the richest and greatest discussions in the blogosphere and for changing the role…
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Tradition Revisited & Revamped: "Something old, something new…."

November 21, 2010

<![CDATA[ What are the good things you can draw from each of the approaches labelled traditional? How have you adapted them or changed them/renovated them and how do you integrate them into your teaching practice? The discussions during the #ELTchat of November 10 had us running in two directions: there were those colleagues who wanted…
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Blog Challenge: Tradition Revisited & Revamped

November 17, 2010

<![CDATA[Inspired by the #ELTchat of November 10, 1020, here is a blog challenge to collect and learn how you use traditional practices in your modern innovative class The topic we discussed was: When you think of traditional ELT approaches, are they all totally bad? What are good things you can draw from each of them?…
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Animating Stories

October 27, 2010

<![CDATA[I have been playing with story animation tools for a long time, learning from colleagues' blogs and links on Twitter. Recent posts include Burcu Akyol’s 4-3-2-1 Action! Online Tools For Making Movies in the Language Classroom and Shelly Terrell’s presentation on Digital Storytelling which includes some excellent ideas. Here are a few additional ones, which…
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What about your concept questions? The famous CCQ’s

October 4, 2010

CCQ’s – in the TEFL jargon which we all use – are those questions which you need to ask right after you have taught something or are revising a lexical item a group of words a grammar point a functional exponent Generations of my CELTA, TEFL and DELTA trainees have agonised over their CCQ’s and this…
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Κρίση ή έλλειψη κρίσης;

September 25, 2010

Θεοδώρα Παπαναγιώτου Το σημερινό δημοσίευμα είναι γραμμένο από την πρώτη προσκεκλημένη μου, Θεοδώρα Παπαπαναγιώτου. Η Θεοδώρα διδάσκει Γερμανικά και Αγγλικά στη Θεσσαλονίκη από το 1994. Είναι Απόφοιτος Γερμανικής Φιλολογίας του Αριστοτελείου Πανεπιστημίου Θεσσαλονίκης αλλά και κάτοχος CELTA (Cambridge Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults) TKT (Teaching Knowledge Test) – πιστοποιήσεων επιμόρφωσης που δεν είναι χρήσιμες…
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