Come join the Electronic Village Online (by Carla Arena)
I’m here to tell you about how a simple acronym – EVO – changed my life and was a true turning point in my professional development. When I joined the Electronic Village Online for...
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Thoughtful language practice
I’m always looking for ways to add a “thinking” dimension to class activities, and if I can do that with a lot of speaking, and reading, and writing practice then I’m a happy teacher...
Proactive Discipline–Tend to Your Garden (by Eric Kane)
Creating a positive learning environment with few discipline problems is a goal of any teacher. We all want to give our young learners the best opportunity to succeed, but sometimes we forget that building...
Students Picking Pics (by Randy Poehlman)
When students are able to choose which images best represent the content of the lessons, they are instantly more engaged and they become far more active. Students can tailor the themes to their particular...
Rocco’s Day: A student-generated story activity for literacy practice
Though experience and through language we learn. Experience needs language to give it form. Language needs experience to give it content. ~Walter Loban Children learning English as a foreign language tend to develop oral...
Teaching: a love story
This Valentine’s Day, since all the chocolate in Japan goes to men, I’m enjoying spending some quality time with the longest (non-family) relationship in my life: teaching.
The Fun Theory in Language Learning
This morning, a friend shared this video on facebook. It’s one of the entries for the Fun Theory award, which recognizes ideas and inventions that prove that fun is the easiest way to change...
Meeting Challenges in the EFL Classroom/ Part 2: Using technology (by Christina Markoulaki)
You can read the first part of this posthere. The outline of the presentation with all the links can be found here. Moving on to the second challenge all teachers around the world need...
Teaching High School in Croatia (by Arjana Blazic)
To teach is to touch a life forever. I have been trying to enhance my teaching with the new technologies since 1997 when I created my first web page while attending a seminar on...
