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Featured blog of the month Each month, the TeachingEnglish team choose a blog entry that they particularly enjoyed or found useful. We are looking for something which is free and freely available; and it should be practical, or to stimulate reflection on teaching. |
April 2012: Fiona Mauchline
Our latest featured blog is Fiona Mauchline's - 'macappella'. Fiona is based in Spain, and in April wrote a great post on how to get teens really talking by personalising, rather than personalisation - to find out the difference, read the blog entry! Fiona gives some great insights into how teenagers think and some wonderful but simple ideas to make speaking activities work better for this age group.
http://macappella.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/a-matter-of-confidence-personalising/
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March 2012: Chia Suan Chong
Well, IATEFL was very prominent in the blogosphere over the last month, and so we've chosen a blog which reflects that. Chia Suan Chong has tirelessly covered the events in Glasgow, and her reports from a range of sessions at the conference are well worth a look.
We've chosen one entry in particular, covering Steven Thorne's plenary: http://chiasuanchong.wordpress.com/2012/03/31/my-iatefl-glasgow-diary-pa...
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February 2012: Dave Dodgson
Our latest featured blog is Dave Dodgson's - 'Reflections of a teacher and learner'. Dave is based in Turkey, and in February wrote a great post on how he exploited a particularly heavy snowfall this year in his class. If your students also get excited by snow - however normal it is - you'll love this idea. Even if you just don't get that kind of weather where you teach, there are some great suggestions for making the most of student-generated content in the class.
http://www.davedodgson.com/2012/02/lessons-on-fly-let-it-snow.html
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January 2012: Sandy Millin
This month, our featured blogger is Sandy Millin. We enjoyed her entry 'Motivation Stations', which deals with a situation many teachers will be familiar with: how to keep students on the 'intermediate plateau' motivated.
In this entry, she explains how she adapted some materials to create an engaging discussion lesson. You can find all the notes and more background here - easy for you to pick up and use in your own classes: http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/motivation-stations/
Hope you find it useful!
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December 2011: David Petrie
The latest featured blog comes from David Petrie, based in Portugal. We enjoyed his series of entries in December, with a rather seasonal title - the 12 days of geekmas. Thankfully David's not singing a geek's version of the famous Christmas song, but does have lots of practical ideas for you to consider.
Below you'll find the link to the final blog entry, which contains further links to all 'twelve days' of ideas. Have a look!
http://teflgeek.net/2011/12/20/the-first-day-of-geekmas-a-short-talk-on-using-poetry/
Watch out for the next featured blog early in February!
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November 2011: Ian James
It's time again to announce our latest featured blog. This month, we've chosen a post by Ian James, from his 'TEFL Techer' blog. It's an idea for a lesson based on an interesting news story from the BBC, about a burglar who seems to blame his victims for being burgled. Have a look - it's well worth trying out.
http://tefltecher.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/dearburglar/
In choosing the post each month, what we're looking for is the following
1. something free and freely available for teachers
2. something either of a practical nature or to stimulate reflection on the practice of teaching
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October 2011: Dale Coulter
It's time to announce the second TeachingEnglish featured blog post! This month, our featured post is by Dale Coulter, who's based in Italy. It's a well written 'lesson skeleton' on asking questions, not too long/too short - and easy for a teacher to follow and use in their own class. Why not have a look and give it a try in one of your lessons?
http://languagemoments.wordpress.com/2011/10/14/lesson-skeletons-asking-questions/
In choosing the post each month, what we're looking for is the following
1. something free and freely available for teachers
2. something either of a practical nature or to stimulate reflection on the practice of teaching
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September 2011: Kieran Donaghy
This month, we're pleased to be launching a new feature on TeachingEnglish. We'll be looking at blog postings from around the world and choosing one as our featured post.
What we're looking for is the following:
- something free and freely available for teachers
- something either of a practical nature or to stimulate reflection on the practice of teaching
Our first featured blog post is by Kieran Donaghy - we hope you'll find it as useful as we did!
http://film-english.com/2011/09/07/your-secret/
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