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Quando a paixão se transforma em missão
Nessa primeira tentativa de escrever meu nome eu já sabia que seria professora. Giz, lousa, lápis de cor, papéis, livrinhos e bonecas fizeram parte da minha infância. O que eu nunca imaginei é que toda essa paixão pelo ambiente escolar se transformaria em minha missão.
Mônica Braga
Teaching english is teaching culture
The idea that language and culture are two separate concepts which are, at best, closely related to each other is profoundly mistaken. It is also all too present in our classrooms. We see it all around us, most notably in the ‘culture corners’ which occupy the last page – sometimes, no more than the last quarter of a page – of a unit in textbooks we use.
Hugo Dart
From adults to young learners...the journey
My name is Thatia, English teacher and writer who lives in BH, Minas Gerais, Brazil. I always loved English, but teaching only came years after I moved back from the US. At that time, I was in Brazil preparing to marry an American man.
Thatia Pinto
The 'Dark Side' of English Language Teaching
In the minds of many people the world over, black people are still stereotyped in many (mostly) negative ways. On the one side, they are deemed to have great athletic and sexual prowess, and perhaps therefore capable of hard manual labour;
Richard Ohene Bekoe
Raise Up! and the context behind the book
When we decided to write Raise Up!, we had a simple aim in mind: to create a mainstream English language coursebook that included a more accurate representation of the world we live in.
Ilá Coimbra and James Taylor
A Importância do Departamento de Vendas nas Instituições de Ensino
Atuo há quase 20 anos na área de educação; grande parte da minha experiência foi em escolas de idiomas, onde empreendi por 10 anos da minha vida como proprietária de escolas e os outros 10 anos com consultoria para a área de vendas e coaching.
Paula Miranda
When there’s no time for a lesson plan – five tips
It’s 5:40pm and you’re heading home after teaching your kids and teens groups. You’re dreaming about a hot bath and a hot meal, hoping traffic won’t be too chaotic and you’ll get home in time to watch some Netflix or maybe go to the gym after a long day.
Elaine Hodgson
Lights! Camera! Action!
Every time I step on her doormat, Bia welcomes me dressed up with a different costume. Sometimes she is a ballerina with a beautiful light pink dress and white flitter. Other times, she is Anna, from Frozen.
Paula King
Eu não gosto de Inglês!
Ouço com certa frequência esse lamento entre meus candidatos a aluno, e então acabei me acostumando a ele. Eu gostaria de dizer “eu também não” só para causar impacto, mas estaria mentindo. Eu sempre adorei aprender línguas.- E do que você gosta? – invariavelmente pergunto.
Aline Aguirre
Homework: Friend or Foe?
For almost 30 years, I have observed many teachers and have noticed some of them have had difficulties setting and correcting homework for several reasons from time management to lack of interest on the part of the students. I have then started to think about the theme "homework" and made myself the following questions
Roseli Serra
Tipologias de Personalidade a serviço da Educação Socioemocional
Os desafios do século XXI são vastos e a necessidade de transformação no universo escolar é premente. Diante de uma infinidade de dados disponíveis ao clique de um celular o que importa é saber o que importa e o que importa verdadeiramente é se importar.
José Henrique Porto
Férias e Educação Infantil
Aparentemente estranha uma temática que verse e reflita tal momento da infância!
Porém, teço minhas considerações, uma vez que tal celeuma já fora criada em torno do cerceamento do direito às férias coletivas na Educação Infantil do município de São Paulo.
Andréa Carla Aydar de Melo Generoso
Assessing students in a meaningful way…that’s the challenge!
The topic of assessment has already caused so much uneasiness and stress among teachers of English and I include myself in this group. Teachers are not necessarily professional test designers. It is therefore considered a difficult, challenging, and why not, in some cases, a boring task for teachers in general to design different types of tests and evaluation moments.
Sueli Monteiro
Teaching English to older learners
Have you ever taught older learners? If you haven't, I must warn you: you probably will. A recent report by the Milken Institute Centre for the Future of Aging shows that the 60-plus cohort is the world’s fastest growing age segment. This population, which is of nearly one billion people today, tends to double by 2050. The report also points out that "for Latin America and the Caribbean, the 60-plus population will increase from 12% of the total in 2017 to 25%" by mid-century.
Heloisa Duarte
There is No Labor in Collaboration
We hear a lot about collaboration working in the EFL classroom. We hear how effective it is in learning, engagement, team building and more. As teachers, we try and take advantage of these assets to foster better learning results. But do we practice what we preach to better our own teaching results? Collaboration between teachers is something that most shy away from. Sure, maybe you talk to your best friend and share ideas, maybe you present your success to your peers at work.
Rob Howard
Os desafios da Educação Bilíngue
Não é mais novidade que as sociedades evoluíram, que as competências a serem ensinadas na escola modificaram-se e que a informação tornou-se mais acessível do que nunca. Estas transformações exigem uma mudança de paradigma: devemos nos preocupar menos com a forma de ensinar e mais com a forma como as crianças aprendem. As evidências científicas sugerem que uma Educação mais compatível com os cérebros da nova geração, torna-se urgente.
Mª Luciana de Souza Brentano
Technology Integration in EFL Classroom
Technology is widely used not only for communication but also for learning. All over the world people are able to connect using the internet and part of this communication is done in English or using references in English language. English has become the global language, the language used for communication, and therefore, English has a good relationship with technology because the expansion of technology has been accompanied by the expansion of learning English and the possibility to communicate with lots of different people around the world.
Teresa Martins
PBL: Making Teaching Meaningful
As a teacher, maybe you have asked yourself if what you teach is relevant to your students, if your students are engaged or if they are really learning. I have questioned myself many times. Being an English teacher for more than 20 years, even when working in small groups that wanted and needed to learn, I felt there was a gap between their needs and what I was offering.
Melissa Marion
Better Writer = Better Teacher – Some Tips to Get into ELT Materials Writing
I believe that every English teacher has, at least once during their professional life, came up with their own materials. Sometimes we do that to complement a coursebook or attend students’ specific needs. Other times, we are not happy with the materials we are supposed to use in class – or we have no materials at all.
Viviane Kirmeliene

The biggest secret in ELT…how do I become a CELTA tutor?
Since training-up as a CELTA tutor in 2016, there is one question that I have been asked more than any other: ‘How do I get to do what you are doing?!’ From fellow teacher trainers, to newly qualified CELTA trainees, almost everyone in ELT wants to know the answer to this seemingly simple question.
Rose Aylett
A fresh beginning
In Brazil, the school year starts together with the calendar year. This means that by the end of January, students and teachers will have a chance to start afresh. It's a new beginning, and as such, it's always a chance for you to do something different.
Henrick Oprea
Challenges and opportunities in teacher education
Often times we discuss the future of education, innovations, tools, content that may accompany the world we live in. Researchers and authors such as Freeman (2016) publish in-depth materials to boost the area of teacher education as well.
Marcela Cintra
Public school teachers in Brazil: amazing stories
Rarely do people think about good qualification or commitment and enthusiasm when talking about English teachers from the public sector in Brazil. And it becomes worse. Some people even feel pityful about them.
Marcos Polifemi
Google classroom: An enticing tool that can change your teacherpreneurship!
A couple of years ago I started designing courses for my business bearing in mind two different teaching trails: a synchronous (live) one trail and an asynchronous moment. That way, I would provide my learners with multiple benefits such as more exposure to the language, more teaching/learning opportunities and an online educational tool that connects me with my learners.
Júlio Vieitas
Embracing uncertainty: how not to get stuck in a professional rut
At the very beginning of my career, I remember having one of those down-the-hall conversations with a more experienced colleague. He said: “I’ve been really thinking about what I want to do with my life. The truth is, I don’t know if I want to be teaching the verb “to be” 10 years from now, answering the same questions students ask, over and over again”
Carmem Foltran
Teaching and learning languages online
My name is Luciana Canonico Cruz and I am a French teacher. I started learning French and Italian when I was a teenager, and that is when I discovered my passion for languages. I have been teaching French since 1998. I work at different schools, including Alliance Française. In 2008, I started to give online classes and I felt in love with Distance Education.
Luciana Canonico Cruz
The EFL Teacher’s Handbook
A few years after completing an MA in Film and TV Studies in 2004, I moved from the UK to the Netherlands in 2007. Fast forward another few years, and shortly after successfully obtaining a CELTA (Cambridge English Language Teaching for Adults) in 2010, I started up D.I. Linguistic Solutions in November 2011 in Leiden, the Netherlands.
Daniel Israel
Teaching English with a creative view. Accounts by an artist who has become an English teacher
Thinking about a way to introduce myself in a learning and teaching context, I start recalling my first English class in a well-known English school in São Paulo and good memories come to my mind. I remember my teacher looking at me and saying “Oh, it seems we have new faces today!” I was happy I could understand what she had said, as I knew she was talking about me due to my absence in the previous class.
Maria de Fátima
A Lesson Framework for YL
When I first started teaching 3-5 year old kids, it didn't take me long to realise that the approach I'd been taught in my TEFL training course just wouldn't cut it in the very young learner classroom. I searched high and low for ideas on how to structure a lesson for this age group but there just wasn't much out there.
Claire Venables
Teacher Development: from Why to How
Never before has teacher development been requested in such fast pace and in such high demand. Maybe because there are too many alternatives, yet it can be overwhelming to choose what to do first, when to do it and how to invest your money.
Alessandra Machado & Karin Heuert
Listening to my heart
Choosing a career is probably the hardest thing we do in life, and as many other teenagers, I did not know I wanted to be a teacher, even though I used to play teacher all the time when I was a child.
Marcela Harrisberger

The Importance of Role Models
For as long as I can remember I have loved reading and writing. One of my first memories of reading books and remembering stories coming alive in my head was when my Uncle Malcolm used to bring our family boxes full of all sorts of goodies.
Jane Godwin Coury

The Accidental Teacherpreneur
In December 2016, I left my job as an ESL teacher after 20 years (including 7 incredible years in Hong Kong). I had known for a year or so before I left that it was time for a change because I was feeling uninspired and tired.
Patrice Palmer


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