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Welcome to the Teaching Articles page, where you’ll find articles, essays, ideas and tips of special interest to teachers in general and teachers of English in particular.
Instilling descipline and disciplinary action
a code of conduct that both teachers and students agree upon and cooperate in its enforcement.
Discipline and causes of indiscipline
Discipline is paramount for every learning . It is very essential for any teaching. It is also very important for peace and harmony in any learning environment
Developing communicative tests
If teaching is carried out according to the communicative approach, then tests must be designed accordingly.
Can a child learn more than one language at the same time?
This is a question I have been asked many times. Is it harder for a child to acquire more than one language at the same time?
Blooom’s taxonomy refers to a classification of the different learning objectives. It was first presented in 1956, but many changes were later added to the initial classification.
How to start a new school year?
For EFL and ESL teachers the first day of the school year is crucial. It can be stressful but experienced teachers know that having a clear and global view of their job will contribute to the success of their mission.
The Pygmalion effect, or Rosenthal effect, refers to the phenomenon in which theere is a parallel between teachers expectations and the students performance.
This is a great slideshow that describes why most people fail to learn a language and how it is possible to learn it using specific strategies.
The English language has thousands of idioms. Being a fluent English speaker entails being able to understand and use English idioms.
What they didin’t tell you about teaching
Have you ever asked yourself what it means to be a teacher? Teachers with a vocation know that it means hard work.
I have recently been interested in the issue of academic success of girls and boys in our school. In fact, I have noticed that girls do better than boys…
Although tests are the dreaded learning part for our students, they are considered an important teaching tool. They create competition within the classroom, provide feedback and give a sense of success to the learners.
Both formative and summative evaluation are equally of paramount importance and are an integral part of information gathering in any balanced assessment system.
How to teach students with learning problems
As teachers we provide our students with the best of ourselves because we want them to succeed. We choose the most appropriate methods, the best tools and wrap up our courage to deliver our lessons effectively. We are concerned about their academic development…
What is the difference between a task and an exercise?
One of the most salient charateristics of new methodologies of English language teaching is the focus on tasks and real-world activities. Syllabus designers are concerned more on how to satisfy learners needs…
Communicative language teaching was developed by teachers and applied linguists as a response to the shortcomings of the audiolingual and grammar translation methods. one of the distinctive points of communicative language teaching is the focus on communicative activities that promote language learning. These activities use real life situations to trigger communication.
Why do teachers ask students to read aloud?
I’ve always distinguished between reading aloud and silent reading in my teaching practices. I rarely ask my students to read a text a loud. If I do, it’s only for only ONE purpose in mind: to practice pronounciation
Successful reading is determined by many factors including automaticity of lexical access and the ability to store vocabulary knowledge in semantically related networks (schema theory.)
Reforming the reform of the Moroccan educational system
The Moroccan officials started a reform of thr educational system in 2000 which was scheduled to end in 2010. A charter for the reform was agreed upon. But in 2009 the ministery of education was already aware of the failure of the reform.
How Should Teachers Give Instructions?
The Moroccan officials started a reform of thr educational system in 2000 which was scheduled to end in 2010. A charter for the reform was agreed upon. But in 2009 the ministery of education was already aware of the failure of the reform. So a new emergency plan was devised to save the reform.It’s a sort of reform of the reform. But let’s consider first the reasons of the failure of the first reform.
Changing Classroom Desk Arrangement
Teachers shouldn’t be afraid of changing the room’s physical layout. The arrangement of desks, for example, may make the classroom a more attractive place to study.
Boredom – The Enemy to successful Learning
Boredom is one of the greatest enemies of successful learning. This happens , mainly, when students predict what will happen next in the classroom. Students frequently know what will occur next because it will be the same as what happened in the previous session and a whole string of sessions before. This predictability is the deadening bullet that classroom vitality may recieve
Study Skills – Preparing for exams
Helping our students learn how to study for exams can determine their success not only in the exams but also in their lives. Examination needs careful preparation if students are to do well. Everyone feels nervous on the day of the exam but with careful revision and good examination technique they should succeed.
The Main reasons For Lesson Plans
Although lesson plans constitute a major part of being a teacher, they are dreaded and sometimes their importance underestimated by some teachers. Some teachers even advance the unpredictability of some events in the classroom to discredit any attempt to provide any strict planning of what occurs in the classroom. Although this might be true, it should be noted that a lesson plan is a project of a lesson. It’s not (and cannot) be a description of what will exactly happen during lesson delivery. It provides, however, a guide for managing the classroom environment and the learning process.
Why Do Teachers Need Lesson Plans?
A lesson plan is a lesson “project” written down on paper. It is only a “project” because a lot of unpredictabe events occur in the classroom.
The Importance of Lesson Planning
Why is lesson planning important? How is lesson planning important for the teacher? For the learners? What do you take into account when you design a lesson plan?
The integration of problem solving skills in education seeks to produce competent problem solvers who are willing to take action and come up with creative ideas. In fact, encouraging our students to be able to come up with new original solutions to problems is one of the key elements in any successful educational system.
It goes without saying that new English users worldwide speak different “Englishes”. Given the new facts, what will become of the standard English used in the United States, Canada and Great Britain? Will the standard English users become the minority?
Brainstorming in EFL and ESL Classes
Brainstorming is a combination of a relaxed, informal approach to problem-solving and lateral thinking. People are asked to find ideas and thoughts that can at first seem to be a bit irrelevent. The idea is to use some of these ideas to form original, creative solutions to problems. Even some seemingly useless ideas can spark still more ideas. The goal of brainstorming is to direct people to new ways of thinking and break from the usual way of reasoning.
Advantages of Using a Blog for Teaching
This is a very informative, valuable slideshow that covers key concepts. It presents all the advantages that a blog can bring for teaching.
Do you use your blog or website for teaching? How can a blog contribute to the teaching process?
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