Bilingual Education as a Business in Times of Crisis - a Window of Opportunity - Educate by Richmond
18/10/2017
Businesses in Brazil are suffering these days. Those are dark times for us and there’s no sign of steady and sustainable recovery for the economy in the near future. Make no mistake: private schools and educational institutions are businesses, and therefore respond to the…
Project based learning (PBL) can be very confusing and strenuous if we try to apply it without fully understanding the concept, steps and objectives. However, the outcome is truly amazing and the learning objectives go way beyond any course book can give us. What actually…
Tenho notado nestes últimos dez anos de experiência como consultora pedagógica que professores de idiomas são realmente muito criativos.
É interessante observar como ideias surgem em aulas ou após ministrá-las, tornando o arquivo do professor cheio de anotações.
No…
If beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder, where does innovation lie in the context of the L2 classroom?
Within the relatively slow-changing scenario of general education, the ELT industry has been an exception, benefitting from SLA research, from classroom research, from…
Call for papers! – Three months ago I flew to Mexico City to attend my very first international conference (LABCI – Latin America British cultural Institutes) as a speaker. What I took with me was my 10-kilo luggage, a huge amount of good expectations and positive…
Cats and Umbrellas: uma atividade de Math em um proposta de educação bilíngue - Milena Claus
By Milena Claus
05/10/2017
Era uma aula de Math para alunos do 1º ano do Ensino Fundamental I. A atividade trazia uma imagem de um dia chuvoso onde alguns gatos tentavam se proteger com seus guarda-chuvas. Mas havia um problema. E antes de contar qual era esse problema quero compartilhar com vocês…
Inspiration and Motivaion – I once had a one-to-one student who literally started crying in class sometimes when she spoke English. She explained to me it was because she felt emotional and it took her back to her teenage years when she used to love going to her…
If you teach high school groups or if you are considering to work with teenagers at school, then you must know that this requires some particular skills from us. Teenagers are very passionate, curious, and typical. If you leave a good first impression and make them admire…
Para aqueles que já tiveram a oportunidade de ler alguns de meus artigos e de fazerem os cursos de capacitação que ofereço sabe que uma aula bem planejada sempre tem uma espinha dorsal, um roteiro para que as atividades não fiquem desconectadas, perdidas no ar. Dentro…