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[31 Oct 2009 | No Comment | ]

This activity will help students be able to identify the verb and the subject of any sentence and discover how the verb must agree with the subject in number regardless of the word (s) or phrases between them.

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[30 Oct 2009 | No Comment | ]

Teachers professional development
Teaching is a life long profession that demands constant improvement of techniques and pedagogies. Professional development goes beyond the terms training and learning skills. It includes a definition covering formal and informal means of helping teachers not only to learn new skills, but also to develop new insight in the pedagogies and their own practices, and to explore a new or advanced understanding of contents and resources, and the use of technology to support inquiry-based learning.

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[27 Oct 2009 | No Comment | ]

What is intelligence?
The definitions of intelligence is dogged by controversy and disagreement. While there are  different definitions about intelligence, they all share some common features.This includes a wider range of areas:

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[27 Oct 2009 | No Comment | ]

Choosing a career is a matter of personal inclinations before it is a result of some sort of training. A lot of people have changed the course of their professional lives because they saw  light gleaming in new directions. This may not mean that they were unsuccessful in their first jobs. Rather this may mean that they thought that they could be more productive and useful in other areas of interest.  The following celebrities who are now musicians, writers or actors  were once teachers.

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[24 Oct 2009 | No Comment | ]

This language activity can be used to teach the alphabet or review vocabulary.

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[23 Oct 2009 | No Comment | ]

What is education? Well education is progress. It offers choices and opportunities for people, fights  poverty and diseases and sets new horizons and hope. Education prepares good citizens to contribute in the development of nations in order to compete  and cooperate globally, leading nations towards economic and social prosperity.
Education also aims at cultivating personality integration and creative thinking. Teachers lead learners to create peaceful environment in the world where they can achieve personal change in their behavior …

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[15 Oct 2009 | One Comment | ]

Wordle is a tool that creates word clouds that you can print and use in teaching English.

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[15 Oct 2009 | No Comment | ]

Educational tool
Eyeplorer is a an amazing eduactational tool. It is a research and study tool based on Wikipedia which enables students to make research about specific terms to prepare for writing assignments and class projects. It is espaecially useful to  help students develop their:

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[13 Oct 2009 | No Comment | ]

Intelligence is the ability to see relationships and to use this abilty to solve problems.  Creativity on the other hand is the ability to come up with a range of possible new original solutions to a given problem. What makes us differ in dealing with a problem is the strategies we follow to come up with these solutions. Geniuses are unique because they use both their intelligent minds and creative thinking to tap the secret of the problems they encouter. Geniuses like Einstein, da Vinci, Edison and Aristotle …

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[2 Oct 2009 | No Comment | ]

The thirteen edition of EFL, ESL, ELL Blog Carnivals is hosted at ELLCLASSROOM.I’m honored to be included in this edition with many other excellent bloggers. A lot of  innovative ideas for teaching and thought-provoking articles are presented. I have been so interested in and inspired by the post dealing with teaching tools presented by Nik Peachey and the the tutorial about how to use twitter presented by Karenne. Of course there are other posts that I’m sure will be as inspiring and that I haven’t had time yet to “scrutinize”…

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