Teacher's Blog
8 Tips to develop reading skills
After many years training students on TOEFL and IELTS strategies, one of the most difficult skill for most of them is Reading. Not only because it is reading for purpose but also because time is a big deal and the truth is during the test students do not really have […]
Institutes teaching based on?
Well, it’s not my style, or at least not in this blog, to write criticism on students and/or other teachers or institutions, in the end, we are all here to either learn or teach with the best practices and fulfilling international standards (CELTA teachers should comply with their training, don’t […]
The end of the road, the begining of life
This year I had the opportunity to have my first complete group of students finishing their General English and TOEFL Training program after three years of hard work and practice. And you know what? I’m so proud of them! Twelve different individuals and souls to whom I have devoted my […]
How much correction is enough
When teaching more complex structures in class, such as conditionals and time clauses, creative work becomes a great tool to build students’ confidence in the language and encourage them to use their own ideas to contextualize TL yet as a free practice. I have always liked to let them create […]
Exploiting student’s curiosity
One of the things I regret from my CELTA training was the vision one of my trainers had about how a teacher interacts or not with their students. Sadly, she stated that a teacher should never make friends with a student, not to mention adding them to social media profiles […]
Quiet classroom, simple solutions
Language classrooms, specially ESL ones, should be noisy, not in the sense of a distracting noise, but a communicative environment. However, the question is how we can make it loud because students are speaking and using the TL and not because they are just making senseless noise. One of the […]