I train TEFL teachers at CELT in Athens Greece and online - our main courses are Cambridge CELTA and Delta. I interact with educators from all over the world through social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and through blogging
Φοβάμαι ότι η φιλοσοφία του ‘μοιράζομαι’ απουσιάζει από πολλούς εκπαιδευτικούς. Ετσι λοιπόν σκεπτόμενοι, αντί να παράγουμε πολίτες με κοινωνική συνείδηση, τους περάσαμε το μήνυμα ότι καλό είναι ότι ξέρεις να το κρατάς για τον εαυτό σου, μήπως σου κλέψουν την ιδέα ότι έχεις, κράτα το για τον εαυτό σου – […]
Summary of #ELTchat on January 25th 2012, 21.00 P.M. GMT By Toula Sklavou/@toulasklavou I recently completed and passed my Delta Module 3 assignment which involved designing a syllabus for a one-to-one exam prep course, so I felt that I would be able to contribute to this #ELTchat in a positive […]
Does this look familiar?? To –ing or not to –ing……that is today’s question! One of my students asked me last month why we use the –ing form for blogging, networking, computing…..Good question! My answer? Because technology is constantly changing and plus usually these actions are constant, happen often, plus they […]
<![CDATA[For the next few weeks I will be working and helping moderate the MachinEVO course in Second Life, one of the TESOL EVO courses. We are all hoping to learn how to record Second Life and to create recordings which will be useful to our language learners. There are already […]
Olha Madylus teaching vocabulary necessary for her revision of the past simple with our elementary students [vodpod id=Groupvideo.10723618&w=450&h=325&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] 1st collector for An Elementary class at CELT Athens – Part 1 Follow my videos on vodpod These are the first fifteen minutes or so of a 60 minute lesson observed by […]
Warning!!!! This post may upset you but it is based on fact, not fiction. It first appeared in a local ELT publication and it is based on the evidence of a *notesbook and the learner’s testimony about the methods this teacher used to get him through to the First Certificate. Three failed attempts later, this teacher decided […]
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 11,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 4 […]
Here is a short animated Christmas card I made for all readers, friends, trainees and PLN! Wishing you all the happiest of Christmases, peace, good health and prosperity in the year to come! This has been an incredible year which has made my life richer through wonderful connections with colleagues […]
This short post includes my notes from a presentation I did some years ago at a conference for Foreign Language School Owners in Greece where I was specifically asked to present a workshop on good classroom management. At that time, I had been training a group of directors of studies […]
Many teachers who have had the opportunity to read discourse analysis either at University or on a PD course such as the Cambridge DELTA, express great interest in this way […]