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Are you running out of ideas for your classes?

Are you running out of ideas for your classes?

Just joking! But I found these two, which I think are great: The first is for the 19th-23rd April week and it's about Climate Change: Quality Climate Change Education for All: Education International Launches Global Campaign The second provides you with Activities for April 23 on libraries: I think the following proposal is a brilliant [...]

Madrid 2020-21 Oposiciones Profesores inglés

Madrid 2020-21 Oposiciones Profesores inglés

As most of you probably know, the “Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid” published the open call for the English Teachers’ competitive exam on January 26th 2021. Like all the other Autonomous Regions or “Comunidades Autónomas”, the exam which was due to be held in 2020 was postponed due to the lockdown and other COVID-19-related restrictions. The [...]

May the Bears and their Stars of Wonder and of Night guide us in 2021

May the Bears and their Stars of Wonder and of Night guide us in 2021

Stars of Wonder, Stars of Night At this time of year, when our kids were little, after Christmas dinner or when friends visited, we used to gather around the piano where Vernon would play various Nursery Rhymes and Christmas Carols. One of the kids' favourites was "We Three Kings". The lyrics go thus: We Three [...]

Un vuelco a las Aulas. Repensando la educación

Un vuelco a las Aulas. Repensando la educación

Nota: Esta Entrada sólo ha sido actualizada en términos de revisión de enlaces. Creo que sigue siendo tan vigente como cuando lo publiqué por primera vez en lo que era entonces SLS Hallam, el 20 de febrero 2013. Esto es una actualización de la entrada publicada aquí el 6 de mayo de 2017. En esa [...]

LOTS & HOTS in our learning process to Mastery

LOTS & HOTS in our learning process to Mastery

LOTS & HOTS will lead us -and hence our students- to Mastery. This post was first published on 14th September 2015. The links have been updated as of today’s date and some of those which were no longer working changed. The first Module of Poppies Foundation Course deals with Structure. One of the issues we are covering [...]

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