Eight steps to becoming a more creative teacher (reblogged)
Earlier this summer, I was involved in a series of presentations, writings, webinars and even a trip to London to present a seminar live at the British Council central offices, […]
Our CELTA pass rate – steady at 100%
You may wonder how that is possible! Of course, we are careful to select candidates who have a good potential for success! Before Each Course We screen them – to […]
Doing the CELTA: Do’s and Don’ts
This short guide is by no-means comprehensive, but I do hope it is practical and to-the-point. It is based on my experience as a CELTA trainer, so one might say […]
Tagged for the last time, I hope
This is the Tag-a-Blogger Challenge going around the blogosphere! A fun chain of posts which include 11 random facts about yourself, answers to 11 questions posed by another blogger who tagged you […]
The Giant Storymaker – Ideas for a Hundred Million Stories
<![CDATA[Storytelling is one of the most important acts of communication. Every day, in our contacts with friends, relatives, colleagues and acquaintances we share stories, anecdotes – things that happened to […]
Tagged: In response to Doug Peterson
<![CDATA[This is a kind of a chain blog post in which one blogger tags you on their blog and challenges you to answer some questions and then pass the ball to eleven more bloggers! Photo Credit: SnaPsi Сталкер via Compfight Doug Peterson tagged me in this blogging meme. This is […]
Why do I blog?
<![CDATA[I recently used the same idea which I wrote about when this blog turned one year old, but here I am reposting it, as I simplified it to make it more accessible to teachers and learners new to blogging. A variation of this post for learners of English was also […]
#ELTchat Topics for May 1st
<![CDATA[ This week’s ELTchat topics are once again influenced by the rich set of resources provided by the IATEFL recordings. The 12 BST #ELTchat will revisit the topic of coursebooks. Since we’ve covered this topic before often from the why do we need course books point of view, we […]
Compelling Readings for Language Acquisition
The inspiration for this short blog post was Dr Krashen’s talk, ‘Technology: useful tool if used to create and enhance comprehensible input ‘, was one of the plenaries on the […]
My 2012 Nominations for the Edublogs Awards – #eddies 2012
<![CDATA[ All Nominated!!! Please vote for them here: http://edublogawards.com/vote-here/ Every year, since I started blogging in 2009, I have made a point of writing an Edublogs Awards nominations blog post; I have got so much out of my own nominations that I always want to pass it on […]