One day teacher of English A said to teacher of English B, “I would advise you that if you’ve got to explain to the whole class something they’re lately doing bad regarding behavior, do it in English, not in Spanish, their mother language. Also when you’ve got to bring out their effort and striving to do things well. You may think they won’t ...

One day teacher of English A said to teacher of English B, “In order to manage the class, or in other words, to efficiently teach and create an atmosphere of work, I think it’s essential to continuously observe your students: if they are following you, following another classmate that is responding or explaining about his or her experience, if ...

Today I had the wonderful opportunity to Skype with Dwight Carter's administrative team, and I must admit that they definitely didn't disappoint! I have been following Dwight's blog and twitter feed for about a year now, and I very much so appreciate him taking the time to organize his administrative team to speak with me. If this is not a ...

One day teacher of English B said to teacher of Englsh A, “Immersion, yes. Let’s make our students relate, mentally link any of us with English, in the halls and offices of the school alike. Albeit both them and us are the same nationality, in our case, Spanish, this way of conducting may be useful. Try this conducting at the school, even when ...

One day teacher B said to teacher A, “I have a good experience of teaching boys. Schools for boys and schools for girls are one educative option, and obviously you know teachers that are in favor and others that are against the separation of boys and girls. In my experience and from what I’ve read and discussed, when there are only boys, these ...

One day teacher B said to teacher A, ''Management and conducting of the class? When discipline is already settled, say, in a few weeks (or longer!), in your classroom, I'd tell you three points that help a lot the class performance: affection/authentic concerning your students; sense of humor; and roping the students in work: if engaged, more ...

Yesterday I tried to help out a colleague of ours, by means of sending one comment to him. These posts have been published on the website of British Council – BBC; you can clic on the gadget this blog for further viewing the site; worth for teachers to visit. I changed some minor mistakes. Sorry if any formatting bugs when publishing this post ...

One day teacher A said to teacher B, “The climax, the ambience, of our classes should be of calm work. This is the environment where they can learn a language. Give them clear instructions about the exercise they have to do right then. Mold the answers. Or make them focus on the example of the sentence given by the exercise. Or ask one ...

Here is an oral presentation on TEFL. I hope it would be any helpful for you. Picture from the website of institutosantamarta. CLM presentationFernando Díez Gallego Begun on 6 May 2010 Theme: What makes a good teacher of English? My experiences and research on TEFL Self-introduction, and introduction to the presentation. The goal of teaching ...

More stuff for the staff of the teachers of a summer course of English. Photo from www gutenberg. Issue #5. Logistics. Discipline. Further points. (May 6, 2010) The best management of a classroom is reached with experience. You’ll continue learning about discipline and management with the passing of days. With the passing years. The best ...