Part of the series: Lessons Learned from Students I have two nieces and I love taking them to the cinema as I really enjoy watching children’s movies, which are highly inspiring for me as sources of values I can apply in my daily life and in my teaching career. One of the latest I have [...]
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Children are Always Cute (by Esra Girgin Akiskali)
Part of the series: Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know “A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove…but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.” Forest E. [...]
The Wonder of Contact! (by Hadley Ferguson)
Part of the series: Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know More on Hadley’s adventures in online collaboration. If you’d like to read the beginning of this adventure, check out “New Friends” It was a marvelous day for my students when we got to share the learning that went on in our classroom with people living [...]
Teaching Young Learners with Songs (by Matt Richelson)
Part of the series: Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know Barbara was so kind to ask me to write about how to use songs with young learners. I have learned a lot from teaching English using songs, and I am happy to share what I know. I have a background in music, and bringing music [...]
Individual Differences Count (by Mike Harrison)
Part of the series: Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know “Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible – the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family” Virginia Satir, author and psychotherapist (1916-1988) My experience as [...]
Whatever gets them through the door (by Daniel T. Kirk)
Part of the series: Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know Over the last twenty-three years, I have taught English to people in every demographic category other than homeless people. Over that time, the issue that continues to pique my interest is their motivation for carrying their feet across the threshold of my classroom. I have [...]
Sometimes Less is More (by Anita Kwiatkowska)
Part of the series: Lessons Learned from Students I can still remember my first Christmas lesson seven years ago. My 3rd graders were making little Santas from red paper and we were chatting about the presents they expected to get that year. Foolish as I was back then, I suddenly asked ‘Of course you no [...]
How to create video activities on a teacher’s blog (by Christina Markoulaki)
Part of the series: Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know The focal point of my previous post on this blog were the potential ways teachers can help their students to organize and practice their knowledge by setting up a blog especially for them. Since video activities on a teacher’s blog seem to be the most [...]
21 days, 5 cities, 1000 teachers, and 20 computers
In February, I talked with approximately 1000 teachers in Fukuoka, Okayama, Osaka, Nagoya and Tokyo as part of the OUP Teaching Workshop Series. Workshop titles were assigned to fit an acronym. I was the “I” in K.I.D.S.—Interactive Ideas for Keeping your English Classes Relevant for the 21st century. The challenge for me was how to [...]
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