• How to Infuse Energy into Your English Language Class

    Posted February 18 by MGHines

    Well-motivated students learn better. This fact has been well-established for years and has compelled educators to develop different motivational techniques to improve learning outcomes in classrooms. If this is the case in a typical classroom dynamic, it is the same or even more so in the teaching ...

  • Hi everybody!

    Posted February 13 by Zaicc

      Hi everybody!   Now I'm starting my first blog. I don't know what I want to write.. No, it isn't true. I want to write to you about me, about my  experience, hobbies, holidays, job... I want to tell with you. I want to put many questions to you. It will be my little story abo...

  • Improving Student-Teacher Interaction in a Language Class

    Posted February 8 by MGHines

    In a classroom environment, the teacher's primary role is to impart information and orchestrate experiences that enable students to develop new skills or improve existing competencies. Additionally, teachers also have the responsibility to assess whether students are learning as intended based on&nb...

  • ELL Learning Methodologies

    Posted January 28 by MGHines

    Learning is the process of acquiring any information that modifies a person's behavior, values and knowledge base. An ongoing process that starts as early as the fetal stages in humans, learning occurs in many forms including instinctive, experiential, conscious, and purposed learning. Personal expe...

  • The British Curriculum

    Posted January 11 by TotalESL

    The British educational system's national curriculum aims to teach students to ensure uniform standards and a high level of competency are met with all subjects, in all schools.  All students are taught core subjects, including English, maths, science, humanities and physical education, and fro...

  • The American Curriculum

    Posted January 11 by TotalESL

    Within the American curriculum there aren't specific examination as found in the British system.  Student grades spend on the individual's discipline and skills.  Usually, schools outside America that follow the American curriculum, maintain a higher standard than their US public sector co...

  • Brain drain reverses course, flows away from America

    Posted December 28, 2011 by ESLjobfeed

    (Reuters) - Derek Capo was living the high life. He was in his early 20s, an analyst at hedge fund Everest Capital monitoring international equities, and soaking up the weather and nightlife of his hometown of Miami.     But looking ahead, as he'd been trained to do, Capo didn't like...

  • ESL Lesson Plans: Types and Purpose

    Posted December 24, 2011 by MGHines

    All ESL teachers--regardless of training, experience, or competency--need a carefully drawn lesson plan in order to assist their students in attaining learning objectives, both on a daily basis as well as the long-term. Having a lesson plan is like having a complete and clear visualization of how a ...

  • Teacher and Student Relationships in the Age of Social Networki

    Posted December 6, 2011 by MGHines

    That education and social media will share borders and encroach on each other's area of influence shouldn't come as a surprise. On one hand, education as we know it is very much a social engagement in itself, involving teachers (the channels of new cognitive experiences) and students (the learners o...

  • English Language Learning (ELL) in the "Age of Asia"

    Posted November 29, 2011 by MGHines

    English language learning around the world is evolving in surprising and sometimes alarming ways.  In much of Asia, including China and India--two of its demographic and economic giants--the learning of English has become an integral component of early education. Given these developments, how h...