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Mentoring is a partnership created to help and assist mentee teachers to reach their highest levels of professional and personal development. So, there are some keystones that must be included in any mentoring program. Key Stones of Effective Mentoring Program: Active listening. Classroom observation and teacher conferencing. Role...
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18/02/2022 Mohamed Ramadan
Professional Development
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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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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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Giving effective feedback is an essential skill for teachers. It should be regular and ongoing. Your students need to know how they are doing, whether their performance meets expectations, and how they can improve. But giving feedback isn’t always easy. You may worry about hurting the students’ feelings, or...
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21/11/2020 Mohamed Ramadan
Correcting Mistakes, Professional Development
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Today, most EFL classes include different levels of students. Teaching these students requires the teacher to be aware of how students are different, the resulted difficulties with them and how to teach them. How Students Are Different Different students are different in one or some of the following:...
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12/11/2020 Mohamed Ramadan
Professional Development
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Teachers are often blamed for the lack of student creativity. Some teachers still insist on using traditional methods in the classroom. Others are not adopters of innovation or aware of what to do in the classroom to boost student creativity. Thus, I see it’s important to train the...
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07/10/2020 Mohamed Ramadan
Professional Development
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Learning to be an EFL teacher is “a life-long experience” and if you pursue to be an experienced and effective EFL teacher, you must take charge of training yourself to be: Aware of the philosophy of language teaching and learning, Efficient in drawing on and adapting content knowledge,...
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05/07/2020 Mohamed Ramadan
Professional Development
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What I’m Thinking About?! Basically, I’m thinking about a lot of teachers of English who are staying at home and trying to learn and develop professionally. I thought it would be good if I collect links to valuable online resources for them so that they can continue learning...
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28/03/2020 Mohamed Ramadan
Online Courses, Professional Development
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