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1- Asses Your Students’ Prior Knowledge & Skills. Sometimes students know more than we think they do. Sometimes they have misconceptions about the content. The only way to know what information that students bring to a course is to test them to collect information that reveals their current...
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06/12/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Professional Development
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Understanding well your students knowing well their characteristics. Understanding well how the process of learning occurs anticipating problems and preparing solutions. Creating a relaxed atmosphere in the classroom and a friendly relationship with the students. Creating various & interesting activities and a suitable learning environment to get your...
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02/12/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Professional Development
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As a teacher of English to young learners, lesson planning is very important. As a matter of fact, lesson plans for teachers are considered as a road map for reaching the target learning outcomes and achieving the objectives of each lesson as quickly as possible. In the kindergarten...
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21/10/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Lesson Planning, Printables Library, Professional Development, Teach Pronunciation, Teach Reading, Teach Vocabulary
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Integrating the main four language skills means combining reading, writing listening and speaking in foreign language teaching in the classroom. In some cases, teachers separate language skills and highlight just one skill at a time. That was often for instructional purposes but even if it were possible to...
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08/10/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Lesson Planning, Professional Development
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What is Meant by Learning Styles? Learning styles are simply different approaches or ways of learning. Once you figure out the way you learn, you will know what strategies to use to fit your learning. Learning style refers to the ways you prefer to approach new information. Each...
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03/10/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Professional Development
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As a teacher, you need to reflect on your teaching practices frequently and take responsibility to improve your performance. Many aspects related to teaching e.g. lesson planning, classroom management techniques, language practice, … need to be improved from time to another so that you can boost your classroom...
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29/09/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Classroom Management, Correcting Mistakes, Lesson Planning, Professional Development
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How Students Learn Many teachers think that students learn while listening to their explanations in the classroom. Students may store the new information for a short time, but this information will not be stored in the long-term memory until they do something with it. Within this context, active...
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25/09/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Lesson Planning, Professional Development
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Top Strategies These top +50 strategies are based on my own experiences and experiences of my colleagues who are currently teaching English to young learners. Reflect on them. They all work. It will be wise to take them all on board. They are not in any particular order....
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29/08/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Professional Development
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Definition of Lifelong Learning Nowadays, there is a great movement towards lifelong learning which is defined as it is using both formal and informal learning opportunities to foster learners’ continuous development and improvement of the knowledge and skills needed to be employed to achieve personal fulfillment. There are...
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23/08/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Professional Development
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After you have been teaching for the whole school year, you have the right to decide to enjoy some relaxing days away from paper and pens. Teaching is very stressful especially if you are in your first-year teaching. So, you should learn to cope with this stress. Taking...
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04/06/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Professional Development
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