Part of the series: Stories from the Front Lines of EFL In case some of you didn’t know it, Second Life (SL) is a relatively new country where the rules of Real Life (RL) often don’t apply. For instance, you can fly and teleport from one place to another in the blink of an eye. It’s [...]
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Love and Respect (by Melania Paduraru)
Part of the series: Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know A few days ago, a much younger colleague of mine in her first teaching year was complaining about how difficult it is to be a teacher and how stressed she feels when entering a classroom full of 14 year-olds who sometimes give her a really [...]
Music and Movement for Young English Learners (by Kathleen Kampa and Charles Vilina)
Part of the series: Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know Matt Richelson makes some excellent points about the power of music in the EFL classroom in his recent article, “Teaching Young Learners With Songs.” I use music and movement daily with young learners in the English classroom. Let me add a few more suggestions that [...]
Teachers or Trainers? (by Marisa Pavan)
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 [...]
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 [...]
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