High Tech Ideas for Low Tech Classrooms June 12, 2012 The Role Play App I got an email recently about a new iPhone app from Edublogs, which is the platform I use for my class blog. Since today is the day I teach at the community center (no... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Activities / Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know June 3, 2012 Four Skills and Five Senses (by Anna Musielak) Two weeks ago the director of my school announced that the teachers should organize a “family” lesson. Kids could bring their parents, grandparents and relatives to accompany them on the lesson to observe how... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Professional Development May 31, 2012 Community, Collaboration, and Leadership at Nakasendo 2012 (by Chuck Sandy) Every once in a way you hear someone say something so true that everything inside you shifts a little. Lights go off in your mind. Pieces of things you’ve been thinking about for years... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Professional Development May 29, 2012 More than five approaches to planning lessons I’ve been out of town, so am just now getting caught up on the last round of posts on the iTDi blog about working with difficult students. If life happened to interfere with your chance... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Professional Development / Reflection May 7, 2012 Listen: You’ve Got To Be The Change You Need to Be (by Chuck Sandy) “Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.” – Bob Dylan Listen. Although I had a chance to tell you all this in my recent post on the iTDi Blog, I... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Stories from the Front Lines of EFL May 5, 2012 Life as a freelance English teacher in Hungary (by Lilla Udvarhelyi) I feel a bit strange if I count the number of years I have been working as an English teacher. Seventeen years, that is, a bit less than half my life. During this time... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Professional Development May 1, 2012 More than six ways to stay healthy and motivated I’m tired today. Actually a lot of teachers I know are tired. Whether we’re teaching long days at a language school, or large classes at a public school, or teaching at multiple schools to... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know April 19, 2012 Because We All Love a Good Story (by Kevin Stein) Some ideas on why and how to use short stories in the language classroom This morning, while I was greeting students at the front door of my high school, Miki-Chan, a second year student... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Professional Development April 16, 2012 More than six ways to encourage collaboration in language class Telling teachers to collaborate is a bit like preaching to the choir. Collaboration is the norm for teachers working together in social networks. Every time a guest author shares a post on Teaching Village... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know April 10, 2012 Copyright, Plagiarism, and Digital Literacy (by Sue Lyon-Jones) Copyright is a pretty a hot topic in the ELT world at the moment, and many people are discussing it and blogging about it. The law that applies to using lesson materials or blog... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket