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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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If you decided to start a career of TEFL, you would need to explore and be aware of many things in order to make a success in this career. For example, you need to: Be aware of the goals and intentions of the EFL course you are teaching....
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01/08/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Online Courses, Professional Development, TEFL Courses
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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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There are a number of training courses and qualifications that you can take, either to be able to gain an ELT job or to develop your ELT knowledge and experience. 1. Certificate in TESOL or TEFL The Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages and The...
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30/05/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Professional Development
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Some teachers of English love being in the classroom and working with students, so they spend their whole lives teaching while there are some teachers taught English for a while and then changed their careers making use of the skills that being a teacher helps them to acquire....
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19/05/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Professional Development
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