The Main Challenge Most Teachers Encounter Maintaining order and discipline, especially in large classes is one of the major challenges that most teachers encounter nowadays. It’s a common teacher challenge. As a matter of fact, it’s a struggle to keep students quiet and under control in a classroom including...
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24/10/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Classroom Management
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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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Before going through the assumptions and principles in CLT, let’s define the following four main terms related to language teaching. Language Teaching Terminology: Approach = “A set of assumptions dealing with the nature of language, learning, and teaching” Method = “An overall plan for a systematic presentation of...
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18/10/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Language Teaching Approaches
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Activity 1: TPR and Vocab (Listen and Do). Steps to do the activity: Divide the students into teams. Give each team member a vocabulary item – e.g. a color. Each member of each team has one color. Tell each member their color or give them a card with...
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12/10/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
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 Motivation? Motivation is a kind of enthusiasm within an individual that arouses and maintains behaviour towards a goal. That is to say: motivation is goal-directed behaviour. Motivation is a kind of energy within an individual that determines to what extent he/she will involve in a task...
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04/10/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
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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, and language practice, … need to be improved from one time to another so that you can boost...
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29/09/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
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 their 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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Teaching English to young learners is a challenge Teaching English to young learners is a challenge you may have faced, like me, during a certain period of time along with your ELT career, or perhaps you are still facing it and keep complaining of some kind of students...
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24/09/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
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