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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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What is the Most Important Thing Nowadays? During times like these, nothing is more important than our health and our students, that’s why I want to reassure you that you should do everything you can to support them. One important thing you should do is to present visualized...
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25/03/2020 Mohamed Ramadan
Online Courses, Professional Development
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As a result of the prevalence of coronavirus these days, online teaching is becoming the trend. Many teachers have resorted to electronic platforms to present their lessons in a virtual environment to virtual students. There is no doubt that it is good for students to continue their studies,...
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22/03/2020 Mohamed Ramadan
Online Courses, Professional Development
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Although learning to teach well occurs over time after going through a lot of teaching practices but it involves mainly four things: knowing, planning, doing, and reflecting. If you keep doing these four things, you will be able to achieve a degree of master in your teaching and...
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01/01/2020 Mohamed Ramadan
Professional Development
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Characteristics of Young Learners Young learners are children who are developing quickly as individuals. learn in a variety of ways, for example, by watching, listening, imitating, and doing things. are not able to understand grammatical rules and explanations about language. try to make sense of situations by making...
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16/12/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Professional Development, TEFL to Young Learners
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