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My (initial) two cents on Assessing students…
Photo by Shemer (on Flickr) CC This weekend thousands of educators from all over the world will take part in The Reform Symposium, which will happen between today, July 29th and Sunday, July 31st. The...
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Learning from Teaching & Sharing and the Secret Garden – What I got from #RSCON3
Last weekend I took part in the 3rd edition of the Reform Symposium Worldwide e-Conference. (you can learn more about it, watch the recordings from sessions and see archives from the past editions if...
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Teacher: Talk in pairs. Student: Why? – A Guest post by Willy Cardoso
Willy and I enjoying a bit of sunshine in Brighton, during IATEFL It is a great pleasure and honor to introduce my new guest blogger. I first met Willy on Twitter. Amazingly enough we had been in the...
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Does Size (in a classroom) Matter?
Big or small - a sizable conundrum As regular people, we are constantly faced with size choices. Big cars are more spacious – but also more difficult to find a parking space for. Big houses and...
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What are Errors and How Should We Deal With Them in Our Classes?
This week I was fortunate to be invited to write about language errors and how I approach them in my classes, for the new iTDi (International Teacher Development Institute) blog. Not only that, but I...
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Do You Ever….
How I've been feeling (photo by Kalexanderson - CC through Flickr) …feel discouraged, as a teacher? I’m going to take a risk here and say you have. As a teacher I sometimes feel like I am not doing my...
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Are We Adjusting?
Are we ready for the students we have? Something funny happened to me this last week… In a B1 (more like a B2, really) group of teens I have (14-15 years-old students) group I have we are discussing...
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Iatefl Blues, yellows and greens. And a sense of direction.
Blues, Yellows and Greens... Pick your color! (Photo by Max A Mauchline on ELTPics - CC license) Another Annual IATEFL Conference has come to an end. An intense week of attending presentations,...
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Teaching is like…
Brad Patterson felt the ELT Blogosphere was a bit quiet these days and decided to shake things up a bit by proposing a new blog challenge: What is you teaching metaphor? The challenge is very simple:...
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Hi, my name is Cecilia and I am a recovering recaster
A Recasters Anonymous Meeting… would you be in it? Setting: RA (Recasters Anonymous) Meeting, in a dark basement somewhere we can’t mention… Me: Hi, my name is Cecilia… and I am a recovering recaster....
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The Day a Bunch of Kisses Turned into Magic
It has been a long, looong while since I’ve last written here, in my blog. And before the last time it had also been a long while. I could use this post to explain the reason for the hiatus (which...
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