Oct 30 2011
drawing by Alice Axelbank Some days are simply amazing – everything seems to fall into place. Friday was such a day. It isn’t quite something that can be explained – I strive to “push the right buttons” every day yet the outcome varies. I’ll take the fifth period as an example, though the highlight [...]
Sep 19 2011
I discovered this short video on Sandy Millin’s blog as part of her excellent summary of the #ELTCHAT on the topic of homework. I always check out a video without sound to see if it is suitable for use with my students. In this case I actually recommend using this one without sound for [...]
Aug 22 2011
I was really amazed to read Scott Thornbury’s post “D is for Dreams” – he seems to have looked into my dreams! Although I am about to begin my 26th year as a teacher, I have bad dreams during the second half of every August, like clockwork, every single year. I wasn’t aware that other [...]
Jul 01 2011
* Photo by Gil Epshtein I just finished teaching a short summer course for ninth graders who will be my new 10th graders this September. Only five children (out of 8 that the course was intended for) attended the course. I will have 17 new students but the others come from mainstreaming and were not [...]
Jun 22 2011
I was invited to be a guest on “‘Teaching Village”! You can find my post The “Reading Pictures” Strategy here
Jun 13 2011
Have you ever seen a bicycle for five?!! My husband just did! I immediately wanted to use the photo for this post for the following two reasons: Part one of this post was about my experiences as a pupil (Comment on Scott Thornbury’s “Open Spaces” – My Experiences Both as a Pupil and as a [...]
Jun 03 2011
Willy Cardoso, in his post “A teacher and his bedrock” asked about having basic principles or beliefs that ground one’s teaching. I hadn’t thought about this question. There’s a quote that occured to me in this context but I’m not sure who said it (can’t find it on Google, must be getting it wrong!): “Once [...]
May 30 2011
Cecilia Lemos’s latest blog post “Why do we take it so personally?” really resonates with me. She writes about how we are aware of the fact that we only play a part in a student’s success yet we feel WE are to blame when the student does not succeed. Cecilia says: “ Why do we [...]
May 27 2011
I was inspired by Magpie Moments “Using Tickets – an Unplugged Approach” lesson to try and adapt this lesson using authentic tickets. The idea for using tickets came from Sandy Millin’s very inspiring (Almost) Infinite ELT ideas blog. I thought this would be suitable for a beginning of the year activity, when the students are [...]
May 20 2011
Before continuing my exploration of how “doing away with the coursebook” would influence teaching special needs children such as the ones I teach, just a quick look at the status of the previous two angles explored: * Readers’ comments have made me feel much better about recycling vocabulary in a class without a coursebook (“Angle [...]
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