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Subject-Verb Agreement Lesson Plan

October 31st, 2009 Mohammed Rhalmi No comments

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. Read more…

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Teachers professional development and collaboration

October 30th, 2009 Mohammed Rhalmi No comments

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. Read more…

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What is intelligence?

October 27th, 2009 Mohammed Rhalmi No comments

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: Read more…

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Celebrities who used to be teachers!

October 27th, 2009 Mohammed Rhalmi No comments

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. Read more…

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Spell the words

October 24th, 2009 Mohammed Rhalmi No comments

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

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Guess what they gave to quiz winners!

October 23rd, 2009 Mohammed Rhalmi No comments

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 and seek to influence the world positively. Unfortunately this is not the case everywhere in the world. Read more…

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Wordle

October 15th, 2009 Mohammed Rhalmi 1 comment

Wordle: myenglishpages

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

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Eyeplorer – an educational tool

October 15th, 2009 Mohammed Rhalmi No comments

Educational tool

Eyeplorer is a an amazing eduactatiLogo_eyePlorer_Claim_BETA_EN_bonal 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: Read more…

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Intelligent minds and creative thinking

October 13th, 2009 Mohammed Rhalmi No comments

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 shared a set of strategies that very few peolpe use. They had a common pattern of thinking. Read more…

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EFL, ESL, ELL Blog Carnivals

October 2nd, 2009 Mohammed Rhalmi No comments

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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