Burnout is an important topic to discuss because it has a wide range of consequences. Whether you are a teacher or a school leader, you may be worried that you are heading towards burnout. To know more about how to recognize that you are experiencing burnout, continue reading....
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08/07/2021 Mohamed Ramadan
Teacher Wellness
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Using English when giving classroom instructions gives your students a good chance to develop their listening skills in a context and using English in real communication. It is true that some students may not be able to understand all the words when instructions are given in English at...
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30/06/2021 Mohamed Ramadan
Classroom Management, ELT Snippets
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1. Don’t explain all new words to your students: When children learn their first language, they do not learn all the new words that they meet at the same time. They learn words that they are interested in, or words that their parents feel are useful. Children can...
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28/06/2021 Mohamed Ramadan
ELT Snippets, Teach Vocabulary
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Brainstorming is a very useful activity that can be easily introduced into EFL classes. It is a fun activity that students enjoy. In addition, It helps develop students’ thinking and speaking skills. It is worth trying out in your own EFL classes. The following are four brainstorming activities...
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24/06/2021 Mohamed Ramadan
Develop Students' Speaking Skills
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Brainstorming is an ideal warm-up activity because it takes little time. Also, it can be explained easily and be used with any chosen topic. The main purpose of brainstorming is to generate as many ideas as possible within a specified time-period. These ideas are not evaluated until the...
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22/06/2021 Mohamed Ramadan
Professional Development
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Generally in education we have aims, goals and objectives. Aims are the final results aimed at in the whole educational process. An example of an aim is as follows: “To create suitable opportunities for the individuals to help them develop spiritually, morally, mentally and physically, according to the...
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20/06/2021 Mohamed Ramadan
Lesson Planning
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In the previous post, I tackled the first 5 difficulties you may face in your journey of TEFL and gave you some suggested solutions. You can check out the post from here: 10 Main Difficulties In TEFL And My Suggested Solutions In this post, I’m going to write...
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18/06/2021 Mohamed Ramadan
Professional Development
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Generally, teaching is not an easy job. And, in specific, TEFL is a difficult mission but in education, there is no “Mission Impossible” The teachers, who are one of the most important elements in teaching, are able to solve any TEFL difficulties if they are informative and creative....
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16/06/2021 Mohamed Ramadan
Professional Development
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1. Don’t assume (falsely) that the class textbook will work. Some activities in EFL textbooks don’t work. These activities must be modified to make them work, or scrapped completely. 2. Don’t neglect useful vocabulary teaching. The building blocks of language are not grammar or functions. The most essential...
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10/06/2021 Mohamed Ramadan
Professional Development
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Multiple choice questions or MCQs are less subject to guessing. They are the most common objective-type questions. In addition, they can be used to assess higher-level thinking. An MCQ has a number of alternative choices from which the student must select the correct answer to get the full...
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08/04/2021 Mohamed Ramadan
Testing and Assessment
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