The other day I was doing some shopping with my husband when I saw a bright and colorful pack of mini play-doh containers. My eyes lit up. I thought, “for sure I can think of some way to include this in my classes.” Of course, my husband’s first reaction was an are-you-really-going-to-buy-all-that-play-doh-for-your-classes type of reaction, […]
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USING VOICE DICTATION WITH STORY CUBES In one of my speaking classes this week, I was teaching about storytelling, so I designed a warm-up I would like to share. First of all, I started the lesson by dividing the class in two groups of 6 students, and I handed each group a bag of story
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Teaching pronunciation communicatively Because pronunciation has been one of my teaching and research focus in the past few years, I know for a fact that it is neglected by many teachers around the world. I decided to flip pronunciation some years ago (without knowing I was flipping) because it just made sense. I mean, how
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Note: this infographic was made using Canva.
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In the three years that I have been involved in the Electronic Village Online sessions, I have always been asked what they are. It surprises me to know that such an enriching and accessible professional development opportunity is not as known as it should be. If you, reader, are asking yourself that question as you
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Why is it so hard to find fun activities for teaching writing? Maybe I’m not looking in the right places. Anyhow, I’m currently teaching an academic writing course to a group of 16 students and I have definitely felt challenged in thinking of ways to make this class not only meaningful, but also fun and
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[divider height=”30″ style=”default” line=”default” themecolor=”1″]THE LESSON If I’m going to be honest, teaching sentence types is not on my list of fav English topics; so when the topic appeared on the syllabus of my new class, instead of dreading the teaching process, I decided to go for an in-class flip (see this post for more
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When you work at a school, there are always inevitable sick leaves; sometimes they come in waves. Depending on the school system, there might be a very appreciated and handy permanent sub around. However, this is not the case in many schools (I speak for Colombia), which tend to ask teachers from the same Department
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Here’s an explanation of in-class flip with its types of stations, sequencing and examples based on trial and error (still in process). It is important to note that every in-class flip will vary depending on number of students, physical class space, resources, class focus and student dynamic, among other aspects. Sequenced or mixed flips
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Here’s a brief video I made explaining what flipped learning is. I start by explaining how it got started with Bergmann and Sams (2012), and I break down the definition presented by the Flipped Learning Network as well as the 4 pillars and 11 indicators. [arve url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgs-96coZ30″ mode=”normal” /] References: Bergman, J. & Sams,
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