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it not the fact that you should be taught we shouldn't memorizing blindly instead focus on learning the idea

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history is past events the has something to do with human and thing

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PEEYUSH KUMAR PANDEY

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PEEYUSH KUMAR PANDEY

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IDK

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I just remembered the year I spend christmas holiday painting tables and walls, because we really wanted to open our Unidade de Multideficiência. In january, our students come to school for the first time in that school year.

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I work with disabled people and so every day are days of failures followed by successes, but every day are days of much commitment and joy.

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This task brought me back in time, in the late 80s, when I was a student at the university of Bologna and I wanted to write a thesis on an Australian writer called Dorothy Hewett. The world wide web hadn't been launched yet and it was quite hard to find books about Australian literature in Italy. Even the Australian embassy in Rome couldn't help me because their library was under renovation at that time. So, I decided to write to her agent, whose address I had found by chance on the back cover of collection of her plays, I happened to buy in a bookshop at the University of Sussex. I asked her for an interview but I knew it was just a dream and even if I had ever received an answer, it would have been very difficult for me to find the money to fly to Australia. And anyway I would have never managed to come back and write my thesis within the deadline. One day I saw a letter with Australian stamps in my letterbox and I almost fainted. It was bad news, though. The woman I had sent my letter was not her agent any more. She was very kind and told me she had got in contact with the new agent and wished me good luck. I started doing all the possible jobs I could find: walking dogs, private lessons, ironing, washing cars and others. And I didn't stop dreaming. One day a received an answer. The right one. The writer accepted to be interviewed. I was scared but I was also very determined. I organised everything and I left for a very far huge country from my tiny country village in the north of Italy.

I spent three days at her place in a comfortable atmosphere, sweetened by the biscuits her husband baked for us at tea time. I had the interview, I wrote my thesis and graduated in time. I was stubborn, I am stubborn. I believed in dreams and I still do.

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This has been my first year as a teacher: I had a lot of anxiety and anguishes, in addition to my strong enthusiasm. I had some problems with parents I had to face with: they didn't want their guys to use instant messaging and emails for school activities. I had to accept their position and I went on with my work with the same enthusiasm.

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Promoting a culture of intercultural and international exchange in my school - it was difficult at first because most of the teachers said that parents wouldn't allow pupils to travel abroad and/or to host a foreign student. The first time I organized a Comenius bilateral exchange it was really hard to find 30 students hosting a Polish pupil in their homes. They didn't even understand why they should want to do that, or even to go to Poland. This was in 1998. Now, in our school, students look for us because they want to take part in international projects, and colleagues too. We've had exchanges with dozens of schools from all over Europe including Lithuania, Portugal, Spain, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, France etc. Look at this link:

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This experience started thanks to my English teacher that informed me about this kind of Project. I immediately did everything to be selected for the internship, because I thought that it could have been a useful experience to improve my English and also to acquire new professional skills.

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Teaching is important for me and I try to do it properly. I teach English and I know it will be important in the future of my students, so I try to improve it and updating the methodology used.

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One of the difficulties I faced during my professional life has to do with the introduction in the classroom of the first LIM devices; these ones initially had a type of interface very difficult to comprehend for the users.  Later on, they enhanced the tools and icons i.e. are very much indicative. I initially gave up but then I realized that it was very useful to learn to use it and the fact that they had enhanced the tools has given me more strenght.

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I teach scientific subjects in a primary school. Everyday I realise that pupils need to be encouraged step by step, because concentration is difficult and for a lot of students intrinsic motivation is down. This influences the learning process too.

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I had some difficulties with teaching Math. The students seemed not to care about their learning at all. I was not very successful during the first term and I decided that a good way to take them from classroom once a week and preparing tasks combining group and individual work using role games to introduce PBL approach. They really enjoyed it.

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Teaching Latin to young people is a hard challenge, so I tried many times to change my way of teaching. One year I decided to use the Ørberg methodology, but not all the students were ready to change their way of thinking Latin. At the end I had to adapt me to the class and now I use a mix of Ørberg and traditional methodology. I love teaching and I need to put me to the test; if I fail, I try again and again until I find the right way.

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I think that in Italian schools some technological devices don't work properly. Sometimes I have to show videos and so on from my iPad instead of Using the interactive board or computers. This is a pity because children can be indipendent and more aware of how to use technology.

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Italian school needs more founds to develop useful projects.
I'm studying a project : my students will learn about resilient heroes from the past and present, focusing on our history and the Civil rights (I teach law and economics)

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Olga, Finland
I have worked with students in a culinary school this year and have faced the problem, that students were too addicted to their smartphones. Instead of studying they played computer games all the time. I have found the solution to the problem by providing all materials in digital format so digital learning environment saved the situation.

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When I started working at school for the first time, I had an attitude- students and I are friends, what was totally wrong and was surprised they had behaviour problems. I was little older than my students then. Luckily, I didn't stay for a long time so I corrected my mistakes when I started working in another school.
I believe that persistance and optimisme leads to success and there is no problem which can't be solved.

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I wanted to obtain financing for various activities
Until now I had many failures but appeared small successes
I still try and be optimistic

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I did training in eLearning Lbs / MOOC . I met Aurasma tool. I wanted to apply it in a task to publicize the school library and engage students in special education. I had trouble for Aurasma working. ... I tried to look for help from the teacher of ICT, but could not. I went back into contact with the training. We made a videoconference to find out what mu error. the conclusion was having to uninstall the application and reinstall. It seemed simple. My difficulty took several colleagues to learn. the students loved the activity.

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I was ordered to find a solution for a technical problem in a client's network. The boss that normally had to take care this client that his network was not working well for a couple of days all ready, had an urgent travel that day,  so he passed to me that case.  I tried many times to make a reset and reprogramming all the equipment. I stayed until late, but in my last try, it worked finally..

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A difficult moment in my career was when I had to leave secondary education and start working in primary education. From having 16 year old students for about 10 years the next year I had to teach 7-year-olds. As it was not my wish, at first I got stuck and could not cope with the situation. I then realized that I had to deal with it and not abandon. I had to change the learner profile I had in mind. I attended seminars for young learners and cooperated with primary school teachers to get into the mood and then everything changed. Now, I can say with confidence that I can teach all ages but with different approach.

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I consider that what triggers my perseverance is not necessarily the failure that boosts my ambition but on the contrary, the wish to know more in order to avoid possible failures. I love teaching, and failing to do it well would mean a terrible loss to me. However, there are classes when after coming out of the classroom I feel there was room for more, if I had been the student I would have enjoyed more the activity done in another way. This is the food for thought that makes me go on and makes me search, prepare, think and plan whenever I can. It is not a burden though, I like it like that.

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I had some difficulties with a group of students this school year. They seemed not to care about their learning at all. The expectations of failure were really high I was for a long time thinking about possible ways to encourage them to learn at least a bit more. I was not very successful during the first term, but suddenly I decided that a good way to make them improve without much effort was taking them to the computer room once a week and preparing tasks combining group and individual work using computers. I also tried to attend their intelligences, using songs, mind-maps, videos, games, drawings, etc. They really enjoyed it and they were much better at the end than we had expected. Most of them reached the goals and passed the subject.

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I found myself in this situation 3-4 years ago. In these years I was perennially anxious because of my insecurity. This insecurity didn't permit me to pass music exams with quiet. From that moment my only objective was to exceed my all expectations for reaching of brilliant results

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Years ago I had a difficult start of the course. It coincided with the change of school. However, try to look for alternatives, methods and strategies to respond and finally I finished the year very happy with my group.

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It is happend when I was 23, I went to Lanzarote to find some contacts with the locals Winery because my idea was making a thesis about viticolture in Canary Island. From Italy I contacted some people that was working there to find a house, wine makers, and contacts for differents interwiews. The firsts days in Lanzarote were really exciting, I was there with a friend of mine and It was a really cool holiday. After few days my frieng went back home to Italy and no one of the people that I had contact when I was in Italy answered to my calls. I was really lost. But I decided to don't give up, I slept on a sofa of a guy that I meet in a disco for few days, than I found a work as waitress in a bar, and a real house for me. The owners of the bar introduced me a lot of people and at the end I found a lot of wine makers, I did my interwiews and my thesis with the help of the "Cabildo de Lanzarote", the local administration. For me was a real succes and a great experience that made me grow up!

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When I first started to teach I had to deal with a child , whose behaviour was not appropriate. I was really discouraged at first but with the cooperation of his family and the school, we managed to see some progress.

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Being an English teacher and a deputy head teacher is very hard, more than I thought it would be. I’ve been a deputy head teacher for six years and at the same time I teach English to 3 classes, which is very demanding. My students come first and they help me overcome some of my problems. There were times when I felt exhausted and without time for me but I decided not to give up. Why? Because I don’t give up easily, I mean, I don’t remember giving up on anything or on anyone.

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One year ago, some students in my class became very noisy,having behaviour disorders during the English class. However, after deeply reflecting on my activity, I tried to group them and give them meaningful enjoyable tasks . Of course, my job was really demanding from this point of view, but I never gave up and the results seemed to come shortly afterwards. Finally, I managed to gain their trust and I observed that noisy students permanently needs attention and encouragement.

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Two years ago I came to the idea to implement a famous German board game "Mensch ärgere dich nicht!" to my daily teaching, not only to present German culture (Landeskunde), as it celebrated its 100th anniversary, but also to exercise Grammar ("würfeln", Akkusativ, Ja-Nein-Doch Antworten, etc.). I noticed that some of my superiors werent pleased about that, as for the whole idea of implementing Gamification in my art of teaching, because my school is an old traditional educational institution... I was very disappointed and many times I thought about giving up all my attempts to help with gamification mostly disordered students of mine... but when I saw the happiness and satisfaction of learning more easily German on their faces, I persisted and did many things, without letting anyone know... I cared only about my students... I presented my whole lesson plan in a workshop during a Language congress my school organized after a while... not only did I get congrats from authorities and colleagues, I also had the chance to find an excellent collaborator, with whom I am expanding my activities and my participations at congresses and seminars, etc. Now I am developing as a lecturer and workshop coordinator myself, something that gives me a lot of energy and confidence... Carpe diem is my motto, as "listen to your heart" also... What makes me more happy is the thing, that my implemention has affected more other German teachers, who introduce this board game in their classes and give me feedback... my idea has inspired other inspired other teachers as we!!!!

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It has happened several times in my life to be regarded at first as a "little girl" that hardly knows how to teach by some students and teachers alike . It's because of my physical appearance - (un)fortunately, I still look very young, although I'm 34 and have 4 children of my own.  But I've never given up and tried to be as professional as I could and managed to earn thier trust. It took awhile with some classes  or with some students, but I think  in the end the relationship was even better.

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The first time I try to work as a volunteer instructor with 7-8 years old children it was a complete disaster. I was 16 years old and they didn't listen to me, they totally misbehave. We had no orientations about how to control a group, and effectiveness didn't come out of the blue.
That first year was terrible.
I stuck because my friends were involved in that project, and because the second year they give us some orientations and simple techniques that were really useful. And I had that feeling that I was improving, and was able to finish being good at that.

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After my first Learning Events and Moocs with the EUN I have tried to implement what I have learnt in my classroom. I tried to introduce pbl and my students loved it but at the same time we faced mainly problems concerning collaboration among the team memebers. How can I overcome this problem? How can I teach them collaborative  skills? I want to learn as much as I can from this course. I want to try it out next year.
So why did I stuck with this problem? I believe the answer lies in the advantages that PBL as a teaching approach will offer to my students and of course to me as their teacher.
This pictures represents in the best way what the meaning of Success - Resilience, staying with problems

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Three years ago I decided that I had to learn English. At first I tried to study alone, but after two months I abandoned because it was difficult. Then I decided to attend a class and this was helpful. I need to achieve quickly the B2 level of English for a contest, but often I think that I will never make it and I am tempted to quit. Nevertheless, even if I don't know yet if I will succeed, I am still trying because I am motivated and because I think that learning English is an opportunity, as this course proves. Maybe I can not achieve the b2 level quickly, but I can achieve it eventually.

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In the years of 2011-2014 I served as a principal in a high school of Komotini. In the beginning, things were pretty bad as we had to go through an illegal occupation of the building of the school, by a small minority  of the students, as a demonstration against austerity measures. Police and an advocate for minors were involved and this made the relations in school pretty bad. The next years some of the "bullies" were removed from school or left the school and we started working on projects how to improve the image of the school to outside society. The studnets finally were happy as we managed to make a happy school for them

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After coming back from emigration I started to teach in a private school . My first obstacle was  recording  program the curriculum and all the rest . I emigrated in Greece there fore I have used Greek and English for 6years . So when I came back an other challenge was the written language. I had forgotten the rules of same written words . I never thought I would forget . It took me some  time to put things in order

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Five years ago, I was given three classes with problematic pupils. some with learning problems, some with difficult families  and no support from them, some other with lack of interest or motivation in learning.At the beginning I was shocked and teaching my subject (English) became a challenge. I tried different methods, not always successful, but at the end of the year I was satisfied with myself because most of students started to be interested in some of the activities done at school. Homework was almost never done but at least, at school, I managed to catch  pupils' attention, and that was just great and made me put myself under discussion and proof that "never give up" is a powerful, truthful sentence

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Resilience - staying with problems

Two years ago , they have given me two alternate route curriculum classes . I got a shock, because he knew that it was the students , not only with learning problems , but also with behavioral problems and tasteless for education. Arranging motivating activities that arouse interest in the study, it has been a constant challenge of successes and failures .

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There are so many situations in my life where I was first unsuccessful but I eventually succeeded: my first years as a teacher were tough and thought I was not made for that, I took an online course on translation which started off with quite low grades but in the end I did quite well, I found being a mum very hard at the beginning and felt a bit depressed. The reasons I did not give up, I guess, are mainly three:

Someone believed in me (either my parents, my teachers or me)

It was a personal challenge. I was the one who had made the decision on that so I wanted to prove myself that I could be good at that. I felt responsible for that.

The reward was worth the effort.

In a learning context, students must feel someone believes in them, they must have taken part on the decision/theme/organisation of the project and finally, if they succeed there must be a reward which the students really value.

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My lack of experience and proper training made my first year as teacher quite stressful. My first months were difficult, particularly in the class management area.
I really believed in what I did and that helped me to keep up. My colleagues were also very helpful.

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In my academic career, I have encountered many instances in which I have had to overcome a number of obstacles and situations in order to accomplish a task and complete it to the best of my ability. This has recently come in the form of group projects for my college classes since I encountered a mixed array of members that were willing and not willing to give much effort towards the final product. In the beginning, there were many stages of planning and dependence on other members of the group in order to divide the workload evenly and ensure we all contributed our fair share which was followed by collaboration and analysis. Once it came time to share our findings with the rest of the group, we saw that some members really contributed and took an initiative to further our progress, while others lagged behind and little or no work to show for themselves. As the deadlines approached, my fellow team members and I that worked hard banded together and picked up the slack of the other members since we understood the importance of the project in both academic terms for our own grades, and to save face with our professor and fellow classmates to sound learned and prepared when giving our presentations. In the end, even though it was more work, we realized upon many frank and open discussions about the the importance of team collaboration, that some people just aren’t willing to make an effort. This was reflected in the grading process and the individuals that worked together received a favorable grade, while the others were unprepared for the presentation and saw their grades suffer the consequences.

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Gina, Italy                  As a mother of four children and as a teacher I've had so many opportunities for teaching young people to always hold on and never give up at the first obstacle that comes in your way. My personal experience? I have a job, a family to take care of, and i still enroll in many learning courses, despite all the hard work, the late nights spent studying..why? I'm perseverant and never give up.

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Gina, Italy                  As a mother of four children and as a teacher I've had so many opportunities for teaching young people to always hold on and never give up at the first obstacle that comes in your way. My personal experience? I have a job, a family to take care of, and i still enroll in many learning courses, despite all the hard work, the late nights spent studying..why? I'm perseverant and never give up.

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I believe that increase my resilience allow me to pass it on to my students. Each day proved not to give up in front of difficulties and I hope I have communicated to my students the importance of never giving up and always try, beyond the results, which are important but secondary to the underlying process activities

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I felt like a quite resilient person when I was trying to quit my previous job, which didn't please at all, and get into education. The tests were hard to pass, I had to study a lot, while working and manging a family with three children at the same time. Sometimes I got frustrated and worried about my future, I often thought about giving up but the most important thing I always teach my kids is : "Believe in your dreams and do your best to reach them!" so I just couldn't stop. Now I am the happiest woman, mother and teacher!!!! ;-)

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I consider resilience as the ability to manage change in stressful situations. As a teacher, I face issues, worries and failures every day. From negative experiences, I always try to learn something, even when it is hard to keep an optimistic attitude. At the very beginning of my career, I did not know how to get troubled teens involved in the classroom. It was really challenging for me because my school was in a very deprived area, where learning a foreign language was considered impossible. I was inexperienced, but I used many different approaches to help pupils. Eventually, I found out that music and games were very useful to organize cooperative activities, that pupils really loved. Ever since then I try to do my best to adapt my teaching strategies to student needs.

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Working as a teacher and being a postgratuate student at the same time was one of the most difficult and interesting situations I've been in. I had to manage the time for studying on the master degree and for next day preparation of the student's learning activities. When I passed all the exams, I had to write my thesis. Writing a thesis needs a lot of concentration and many hours spending on finding the appropriate sources, articles, reading them and after that producing thesis according to certain methodology.
On the other hand teacher's work demands energy, flexibility, focus on preparation of the lesson and activities. The problem was that I could not manage all these and suddenly I realised that I had given up writing my thesis.
After half a year and thinking that studying for comparative education was my dream since I was gratuate student, I decided to try again to write my thesis and I started reading many more hours and managing better my free time on weekends. Finally, I achieved my goal and succeeded to have a master degree in comparative education and working at school. My dream motivated me. So follow your dreams and never give up!

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What is failure?
Quite simply, failure happens when we cannot meet our objectives.

Sometimes, we fail because we do not try hard enough. I think,in that way, failure can be seen as our greatest teacher.

"You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something."  – George Bernard Shaw

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At the beginning of this educational year, I was stuck with much work at school, a very busy year, I started working on projects with  some European colleagues on etwinning,My students , I mean , project team also met with etwinning for the first time, So it was really tiring and hard situation to express the process to the students, parents and teachers at my school. At the beginning , I even did not find a place for the activities, I went to one classroom to the other with my pupils, to work on the activities. I had some problems with the internet at school so as a result I had problems with skype sessions with project partners. However , desipite all these difficulties, I never gave up, I still walked on my way according to my dreams in teaching. And in the end The results of the projects were very impressive for the students, for the parents, Students gained much in terms of knowledge, in terms of social and communicative skills, in terms of awareness of culture and language. So I succeded, I never gave up, and I felt the brightness coming after darkness. So Iam really happy now!

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When I was 14 years, I came to live in Portugal and could not speak Portuguese. I was very concerned but with the help of all could successfully overcome this concern.

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I remember when I had problems with not being strong enough to face people who take advantage of other people. And it was something that worried me as I felt supressed and not myself. Opposing such people meant to declare a war to them. And I was taught to have good relationship with everyone. Now I am able to admit to myself that not everyone is playing straight and I do not have to tolerate it. That is possible thanks to my selfimprovement. I worked hard on myself not to afraid of being judged when I had a different opinion, I have become independent and fair to myself and to all people around me.

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The great experience for my was my firsts CLIL - integrated content and English lessons. Especially I was concerned about activities, scaffolding and student’s collaboration skills and team work and of cause of the usage of the foreign language. Then I feel lack of practice and self-confidence. It was a challenge for me and for students as well. As far as I remember it was a lesson about the problems of mega cities. The most helpful was support of our English teacher. Despite the fact that a lot of time I spent for preparation and everything was carefully planned all activities (every minute, phrase, and so on), time management seemed the most difficult then. However lesson was repeated a few more times and after each lesson the plan was slightly adjusted. Finally the result satisfied the students were satisfied as well. The vast majority of them worked sincerely and actively and some of them thanked at the end of the lesson.

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From an early age, I dreamed of becoming a teacher. However, exams period was really hard for me. Obviously we are talking about a problem . Nevertheless , I had the luck - although my first reaction was negative-to study Sociology. Eventually I persisted and when I ended up with social studies I sat for admission exams in educational studies and despite the small percentage of importable students I reached my goal.Looking back , I realize that what in the beginning was an obstacle - problem at the end it helped me reach to the solution. The truth is that failure - problem gave me strength and courage to forge ahead. In other words, let's embrace our faults and keep walking by evolving and progressing!

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Well staying with a dream or target , despite all odds is very important in life , i think . Well , after gratuating University , even if i desperately wanted to , i couldn;t move on with postgratute studies , because of various obstacles . Then, i got married, started teaching English full time in a state school and i moved from Athens to my home town , Preveza .There is no university where i live and The English Departments are some what 400 Kms from here . But for about 10 years or so i started applying in the Hellenic Open University . I was rejected several times , but didn;t give up ...Iam now finishing my Master's Degree in Education and iam preparing my Thesis proposals at the time while iam writing activities for tis PBL ,and also millions of responsibilities inschool.Do you think iam mad , after all???

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Both in my private life and professional life , In fact I hasn't faced any unsolved problem thanks to God.I have a happy family with supportive husband and two healthy kids.I have worked the teacher of English.I always try to be innovative , friendly,hardworking and active teacher.But I would like to take interantional projects more .I had some hesitations but now I feel more self confident and believe a lot to achieve my goal thanks to etwinning.Because I meet many awesome colleagues ,attend learning events ,webinars and online MOOC course .They encourage me to creat new project ideas and put my dreams into practice.Belief is half of success.

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At sixteen philosophy can be a difficult subject. I remember the first time I read Hegel and how I thought to myself how tough it was to understand his ideas. However I had to do it. I read and read his texts for several times and tried to explain his theories using my own words. I got the help of my classmates who were patient enough to listen to me talking about Hegel and asking them to ask me questions and listen to me over and over again answering them. I manage to have a good mark because I didn't give up, tried hard and got the help of my friends.

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When we want something really almost always get. "Want is to achieve". When I was a senior in high school I pawned me lot and repeat the year. The following year I decided I wanted to study at University and I was able to enter the course of mathematics for teaching. No job and no gain commitment. "No pain no gain".

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"In the middle of a task, fulfilling a target"
This is for our italian friends:
I already have a CELI4 with Grade B, which I obtained rather easily. Intending to a Celi 5 though, hasn't been so easy: I have given the examinations for the final CELI 5 for 4 times, with no success! Every time, I pass the oral part, but not the writing one,loosing the degree for just a few points.
What's the best part of this consistent effort to fulfill my target?
-Since it has never happened to me before, it really makes me persist even more!
-Getting to know even better the Italian language!
- Never give up. Your end is at the finishing line!

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Positive attitude, optimism , the ability to regulate emotions, and the ability to see failure as a form of helpful  feedback are very important for a teacher.

Sometimes students are very "difficult" for many reasons and teachers have not to give up and have to find a way to reach them.

In my professional life I often have to face with non-collaborating colleagues or students. So, I try to be helpful to others, encouraging dialogue.

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At the age of fifty years I have decided, against many opinions, leave s carreer in civil engeneering and take a Major Degree in Theology. So I went for five years, at night to the Portuguese Catholic University, 50 km away from my home, 3 days a week in the late afternoon, while I was working by day. Were very hard in many ways. So many times I intend to give up. But i don`t do it. With the help of my wife and daughter, and my fathers. Without hard labour nothing happens.

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And ... I succeded eventually.!

My daughter was born 16 years ago in a cold night at the beginning of January.
Since the very first days of her life, she was a wonderful little, very little child who didn't sleep at night. She kept on waking up several times during the night, for so many months. I loved her deeply...but I needed to sleep, as well!
When I used to say goodbye to her in the very early morning because I had to go to my lessons at school, she looked at me happily and soon afterwards she fell sound asleep in my mother's arms. She still loves sleeping in the morning more than at night! I must admit she is the typical night owl!
I came back to school after few months from her birth. I taught in the primary school. I liked my job but my aspiration was to teach English to teenagers. During that period, due to my want of sleep, I was feeling so tired but nevertheless, I didn't quit the idea of studying hard to pass the exam and one day becoming a teacher of English in the high school. With a great effort, commitment and determination, I decided I wouldn't lose the chance to realize my dream! So, for six long months, I took care of my dear, beloved daughter at night, I took care of my school children in the morning but in the afternoon I took care of my dream!
Eventually, I passed the exam and two years ago my dream came true!

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My resilience test was graduating at 50 years. I began university at age 19, but then the competition for teacher, work, marriage, and the children prevented me from receiving a degree. I had, however, this thing is not resolved and when the children are enrolled at the university I did it again, too. It was not easy, I have often had the idea and the reasons for giving up ... but I did it !!!
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When I was 18 I failed in the exams for the University. I was dissapointed because I had studied hard. Next year I tried again and I managed to pass the exam and make my dream true.

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Nikoletta- UK
Module 3. Developing students-driven activities for PBL

My unsuccessful moment in my life was when I was a student, studying in the university. I remember it was a very difficult lesson that most of the students couldn't pass it and it happened exactly the same with me. At the begin, I was very disappointed and I didn't want to try longer with this lesson but I know if I left it I would not be able to take my degree. So, I gave time to myself and I studied for hours in this lesson. I spent time in libraries, I made research on internet in case it would help  me to understand more about the lesson. And indeed, at the end I made it. I passed the lesson with 9.

I felt so proud of myself and I understood that I should believe more to myself and give time to what I'm interested. ​

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I think that as teachers we all have to test our resilience and stuck with adversities all over our careers.
This year I had a class where there were students with a very low self-esteem and with no motivation at all to pass the year. On the first term, I was really upset and I thought I would never succeed with those students. Then, on the second term, I decided to approach my teaching methods according to these students'needs and offer my availability to help overcoming  their difficulties. And on the third term, I had a real good surprise with some of them! They cooperated with me and achieved their results with success. One of the strategies I adopted was the group work with topics of their interests and where they could show up their talents. ( I think the PBL approach with work well with these students).
Another situation where I think I've been resilient has to do with introducing the eTwinning projects in my school; it hasn't been easy especially due to the resistance of some colleagues in working in an interdisciplinary way, but I can say that I have succeeded because I could involve some colleagues and the feedback has been very positive, especially from the students who share their enthusiasm with me.
So, I strongly believe that you should never give up: that's why I'm here to learn more and more with all of you and get lots of excellent ideas that will surely motivate me to succeed.

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One of my lifetime's dream was to work abroad. It was not easy to do, but I managed to go to Sweden for three years and work there as a teacher for Greek immigrants. It was a life altering experience and though it was a difficult decision for my parents to accept, I did it anyway and am really happy for this. It was challenging since I was on my own but at the same time so rewarding!

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I studied general sciences and maths in highschool. When I told my teacher I wanted to study languages at university he made fun of me. I 've Always kept his cynical remarks in mind when I had a subject I struggled with...I had a goal in mind: getting a

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After the first year of secondary school my English teacher said me: "I'm really sorry but you will never learn English!", she was an old serious lady who really frightened all of us. We didn't even mention her name, we used to call her "The Lady". Starting from that moment I tried all I could to show her that I was in love with English but I couldn't understand their classes. During summer I studied harder, I took some private conversation lessons and during the second year, step by step, she showed me her appreciation. When I became a teacher of English ten years later I received a congratulations letter by her.

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I don’t usually give up what I try to do. The last example is this course. I am totally overwhelmed, there are a lot of changes in my school and I have a lot of meetings and papers to fill in. I sometimes think that I can’t follow it the way I should, but I always get the time to do it in the end. I think the main reason is because I like finishing what I start, but another reason is because I find it interesting and useful. That is perhaps the main reason why I haven’t given up; I have the motivation to keep on trying, no matter how difficult I can find to fulfill the tasks. If we find a real utility to what we are doing we will success in the end.

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Every time I start a new project or applying a new pedagogy there is always the possibility that something goes wrong, not exactly the way I want or I don't know how to manage unfamiliar situations. That doesn' t mean I am going to be disappointed. I examine the results, what have to do in a different way.And of course, I take part in courses like this one

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I've always had ( and still I have) a pessimistic attitude towards life. All "beginnings" make me feel worried and I always say to myself:" I'll never succeed". But I try, and try and try again. This course is an example of what I've told above! I've no the time needed and my outcomings are very poor, I think, but... course must go on!

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This school year my school has adopted an educational project taking as a tool the computer . In place of paper books the students had digital manuals.

at first it was difficult to control what students did on the computer, but the students have realized from the beginning that the computer could not be a source of distraction but but a working tool.

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There are lots of moments in life when you are compressed by your fears. One of the most difficult things for me to overcome is my shyness. Many things I have done to learn ICT and many have been the great results I got from my learning ...I am here keeping on learning new things ,new approaches ...in the past I would have never thought to use a tablet or apps,and new methodologies thanks to my psychological limits.
Now, the next step is public speaking as I have always been terrified of speaking in front of people when silence comes down ....I will strongly will overcome my limit!

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My apply for KA1 has not received grant for three times and also with the evaluation tips the year next is always a nig surprise...
Anyway I think that it's wrong to give up and next year I will try another time

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I am a professor of literature and Portuguese language. Three years ago, I decided to be also a librarian teacher. To deepen my knowledge in that area, I took a postgraduate course. One of the course subjects had to do with technologies (resources, tools, ...). At first, I confess, I had many difficulties (until then I did not dare to use the computer whenever there was a text on the screen with new information that I did not understand; my digital literacy was poor). But I did not give up. Today I enjoy to use technologies at home and at school. I love to experiment new tools and to use them with my students in the context of learning and the students of my colleagues in library activities.

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I have been in treatments of infertility for 3 years and every time I had a negative result I thought on giving up. But I didn´t. And now I’m almost 12 weeks pregnant.

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I was still studying at the university some years ago when I decided that I wanted to go for Erasmus Placement in another country. My dream was to go to Spain. I tried to convince some friends of mine to go with me and work in a school there. However, no one was willing to do it. So, I decided to go alone. It was my dream and I wanted to achieve it. I searched for language schools in Spain and after some interviews I got accepted to work in the language schoolZador Alicante in Alicante. It was my first time that I was going to travel alone in a country that I had never visited and knowing only basic Spanish. It was my dream to travel to Spain and I couldn't believe that I would finally go. However, when I arrived, I realized that I had nobody there and that I had to deal with everything alone: find a flat, buy everything I needed, meet new people who didn't speak my language, make friends... I was very scared and sad and for a moment I thought that I wouldn't be able to cope with all this. My parents were very worried and for this reason they suggested me to go back to Cyprus. However, I had a second though and I decided that I would stay. I couldn't leave my dream. So, I stayed for the whole summer there as planned and it was honestly one of the best experiences of my life. I met great people, I gained lovely experiences working with kids from all over the world and the most important, I learnt that if you insist and you don't give up you can achieve anything you dream! Of course, at the end I didn't want to leave Alicante!!

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I had always taught Computer Science to students from 16 to 19 years old but one year I had to teach to students from the first two years of high school (age 14-15) and I thought that it was impossible for me for two reasons: the first was that I had never taught to students so young (and problematic because  teenagers!) and the second was that the study program was completely different and I had never taught it before!

I asked to my colleagues that had ever taught to teenagers to lend me their books and their programs and I started my scholastic year a little bit anxious but everything was ok and I finally succeeded in it, learning a lot of things, first of all learning how to deal with younger students!

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During my dissertation i found an obstacle where i couldn't solve an equation with analytical methods. After i research it and read some books i manage to solve the equations.

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My applying for EU course. I was rejected twice - but I was so motivated and read a lot about the way how application should look like and did not give up. The third time I was approved. So if you want something so hard and work on it - you will succeed.

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My first year of teaching to students ... it was very challenging. I was supposed to catch all the strings in the short term, but thanks to the resilience and cooperation with colleagues I managed.

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This school year started quite smoothly, I managed to build up a positive learning environment in most of my classes and most students seemed to connect with me, apart from.... one. One class and a couple of students in this class, that gave me a run for my money from September until June. I started off with the usual cooperative learning atmosphere rules agreement, setting limits and encouraging positivity. Well... nothing really worked in that classroom. Disruption levels were extremely high from the first week and there was one student with learning disabilities, who couldn't even stand my voice and would have break downs and tantrums, because he apparently "couldn't tolerate my accent". This class was a source of frustration and most days I didn't have the patience and grit to handle them properly and I started acting up like the strict old school teacher, who doesn't tolerate anything and resolves to disciplinary measures. I noticed though that every now and then, they would show their good face and cooperate. I had a long discussion with the mother of the difficult student and that situation improved and then one day out of the blue, I interrupted the class and told them "I really like your class. I started this year thinking I would never get along with you, but now I like you!" From that day one, thinks started going much better and despite the fact they still had "their days", we managed to build a positive relationship and learn a few things too :-).
The main factor that kept me going in this situation were the (scarce) positive reactions of students and my inner belief that "I'm not that teacher who builds authority on fear".

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Recently I've had to draft the planning for my students with special needs adopting a new kind of classification of their disabilities and difficulties. I'm talking about the ICF, International classification of functionality, disability and health prepared by the OMS (World Health Organization). ICF is an important and useful instrument for the education of students with special needs, but understanding its structure it's not easy. My first educational plannigs were a disaster, so I had to try again and again to draft a successful one. I could not give up because using ICF was compulsory in my job, but especially because I was aware of the importance of this new kind of classification for the educational necessities of my students

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Usually, I never give up. May be sometimes I leave the problem, or postpone it for a while, but surely I go back and try my best.
My students this year- 3rd graders- liked a song and kept singing it at the time. Whereas the song is considered unsuitable and kind of vulgar.

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Demotivation and disappointment are not only an under ages’ problem. As I recall from my recent past I had the same feelings when 2 years before I took part in a research project in linguistics... Although I was excited when I was selected, I was also frustrated and demotivated at the end of the first week. The project had started 2 years before I entered and I felt that I could not keep the pace. There was a learning community in full action, a great deal of work to review, deadlines, new terminology, long reports to do and much more...I was deeply disappointed and ready to admit that I would probably be a failure if I continued. And then, there was a discussion in the forum and there was magic. It was about an ordinary matter of the research. Ιincidentally τhere I realized that the project was about a unique and attractive process in progress; not about delivering some results. The professor in charge was one I admire and he was inspiring. The thoughts he shared were simple, clear and well built on theory. The colleagues were creative, stated their problems asking for extra support but stuck with the tasks and eager to dive in new learning adventures. Well, that was an environment I would not miss for nothing. I was lighthearted as I understood that some steps were planed and I was free to initiate new ones. I was trusted, many colleagues were available to ask and cooperate. The environment, the climate, the feeling and the resources were the magic that made me a hard worker and a very proud participant!

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the time I really felt challenged most when I had to read, analyse and reflect on a bunch of books during an academic research period. Our instructor left us on ourselves to research and find out the right method and form for the final report. I did not know how to manage all in a short time but I remember that I kept searching the sample works, and when I could figure out what the instructor really wanted from us I could bring the end. It was a

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The most stimulating situations as a teacher are students that don’t have any interest in our "traditional school". These students challenge us daily until we find a way to get to them and involve them on learning. Two years ago a student of mine was a huge and grateful surprise, since most of teachers had difficulties reaching him about the subjects they taught. On my ICT class I challenged them to create a game using either Kodu or Scratch. This particular student created a full game playable with levels in a 90 minutes’ class time. This was a way to show my peers that this was a special kid and they were the ones to change. It was a great experience to be able to help him to succeed.

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I did research for 15 years. At one point, I was forced to change job. The new job was so intensive that I didn't have time to investigate. I decided to keep my research projects adapting them to the time available (weekend and holidays). Doing research is so importante to me that I couldn't leave those projects.
Recently I was selected for a place at a research institution. I think I succeeded because I did not give up and I tryed always. Why? Because it was a dream and because I feel happy when I am doing research. Besides that, I am optimist and I feel confidente. I alwys thought: if I could handle it, probably I succeded it.

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Well, one of the most challenging situation I had to deal with in my personal life was the weaning of my daughter. There are unlimited things to learn after the birth of your baby, of course, but for me the proper and healthy nutrition was one of the most difficult. I didn't want to cook every day a lot of different courses, so when I started to wean my daughter, I had to change completely the cooking of the whole family in order to have appropriate food for everyone: me, my husband and our baby. It wasn't a little problem for me, as I was an absolute beginner...and my first attempts in cooking were a complete disaster! Of course I couldn't give up with the problem and simply decide to eat every night in a restaurant, moreover I was sure that my efforts were directed into a healthier way of life and so the only choice was to try again and again. I cannot say if I absolutely succeded in the end, but surely I found a way of cooking that was ok for me and my family.

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I wrote several application for Comenius individual mobility, but it were rejected. I was heard from my colleagues what interesting was this kind of course, how many things they learned, how many friends they made I learned from feedback's evaluator and read about Comenius individual mobility and I succeed in, so I got for 4 years grants. Furtheremore I wrote a similar application in Erasmus program and succeed in also.

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When I started my first MOOC (The Creative use of Tablets) by European Schoolnet Academy I thought I'll never do it because it was my first MOOC in english and I spoke english very bad. After two week I started to think to leave the course but then I decided to continue. The MOOC was very interesting and it would have been the occasion to improve my English.

At the end I finished the MOOC, I improved my English,  I learned a lot about the creative use of tablets in the classroom and I was wery satisfied with my progress.

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I teach German in a secondary school. This school year, I had a quite low class. 21 students of which most of them had failed in German the previous years​. It was a very unmotivated group, and they admitted in September that they knew nothing about my subject.

It has been a very hard year. Students did not work at home, and it was very difficult to get their attention. I tried different things to make my classes attractive, with poor results. But I did not give up. I started giving them tasks to work in groups in the classroom. They had to plan communicative situations, and play them. They recorded videos with their performance and sent them to me via google drive. This kind of activities seemed to be motivating for them, and the fact that they could count on my support in the classroom made them work better and better. They all participated in the activities and recorded their videos.

I wouldn't say they love German now, but in the end, most of them passed the year.

I could have never given up with these students. I feel it is my duty to motivate them towards learning. To convey enthusiasm is more important than imparting knowledge, from my point of view.

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When I started teacher's college in Denmark I had only studied the language for 17 months. The first year was quite hard but I held on, finishing on time and already with a job in hand.