Stories have the power to engage our minds, challenge our beliefs, and ignite old memories so intensely that we crave to hear them retold over and over. There are several benefits to using them in the classroom, such as improving…
Classroom management
CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT ON FOCUS: ATTENTION-GRABBERS EDITION
A very good lesson plan without good classroom management may not exactly bring the best results. Classroom management has been a challenge for teachers all over the world. Sometimes teachers, in order to get students’ attention, raise their voices which…
WHAT IS TRANSLANGUAGING? HOW TO USE IT FOR A MORE ENRICHING LEARNING ENVIRONMENT?
Although the term might be new to some, translanguaging has inevitably been present in most bilingual classrooms. Considering that language has been the utmost focus for teachers in traditional English lessons, it may be initially a challenge to recognize it…
WHAT IS BLENDED LEARNING AFTER ALL?
In a constantly changing world, new ways of teaching and learning are always crossing our paths. In this post we are going to talk about a very famous methodology that is usually misunderstood. Take a few minutes to read and…
UNLOCKING THE POTENTIAL: UNDERSTANDING BRAIN DEVELOPMENT AND ENHANCING STUDENT LEARNING EXPERIENCES
Wondering which methodology is the best for teaching? Trying to reach students through different ways of teaching has become one of cognitive studies’ trends (especially in the 20th century). However, a new wave of knowledge has been developed from the…
THE NEW OLD FRIEND: THE MAKER MOVEMENT
Students are not the same from 10 years ago. Some of the main characteristics of today’s learners include being curious and in charge of their own learning process. Because of that, schools all over the world have turned their attention…
SELF-DEVELOPMENT AND THE PATH TO CONTINUOUS LEARNING – PART II
A month ago we published a post providing some practical tips to help you identify learning needs, as well as some ideas to organise your study routine. We hope the article Self-development and the path to continuous learning can help…
SELF-DEVELOPMENT AND THE PATH TO CONTINUOUS LEARNING
We already know that teaching demands constant improvement in our practices. In this text, I will suggest a few practical tips so that you can better understand what your learning needs are and how to organize a study routine. First,…
SCHOOL’S CURRICULUM AND EVALUATION PROCESSES
The curricular organization directly affects the way we organize our pedagogical work, the relationship of autonomy (or lack of it), our workloads and professionals’ isolation or a good establishment of a teamwork in an institution. Although students have never been…
SCAFFOLDING FAMILIES’ EXPECTATIONS
These unprecedented times brought unprecedented shifts to some (so-far) unchangeable truths. First, the traditional notion of family has slowly extended itself to accommodate everyone (blood-related or not) who share the same ‘nest’, being it a concrete or abstract structure. Adding…
