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When I was a child, a friend told me I wasn´t good at making friends. This was very disappointing for me, but , on spite of this bad friend, I continued trying  instead of giving up, and soon, I had lots of friends. I remember feeling very proud of me

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Danny, Indonesia
Interciplinary activities can be made in club or cocurricular activities

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I am quite involve in Project Based method and still have got lots of doubts and challenges to solve according to the process, though I am very happy with the results until now as well as with the students' assessment

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It is dificult to me to find time to projects and it is dificult too to find the right partners inside the school - specially in secondary school.

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It is challenging to introduce students into interdisciplinary activities.

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It is difficult to involve young people or find the time to devote beyond the activities foreseen by the disciplinary programs. I believe that the solution and the various problems must be sought in ourselves, on the collaboration of various figures, the desire to work on the project, the motivation that drives us every day to face new lessons with innovative methods.

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It is difficult to involve young people or find the time to devote beyond the activities foreseen by the disciplinary programs. I believe that the solution and the various problems must be sought in ourselves, on the collaboration of various figures, the desire to work on the project, the motivation that drives us every day to face new lessons with innovative methods

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What comes to my mind is really teaching. Facing a group of children and speaking to them was really awful. Nowadays, and after so many years teaching, being with a group of children is no longer a problem (psychological, I mean!)

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The only thing that comes to my mind is the first time I play a guitar. I find it absolutely impossible to play but some years later I tried again and I find it quite easier than the first time and I was able to keep on it.

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When I first arrived at the secondary school where I work right now, I asked for a classroom of my own. I was told I was very difficult and there would be a lot of problems. I kept my request in every report, every important end of the year meeting, and I suceeded 3 years ago. Nowadays everyone has its own classroom and we¡re delighted.

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During my professional experience, I often had difficulty addressing, above all, collaborative level with my partners in European projects. After all, the difficulties were due to the many school commitments and the difficulty in organizing collaborative activities with the classes. It is difficult to involve boys or find time to devote beyond the activities provided by the disciplinary programs. I believe that the solution and the various issues must be sought in ourselves, the desire we have to work on the project, the motivation that drives us every day to tackle new lessons with innovative methods

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As a teacher in my professional life I always have to face new challenges, but the worst situation I had to face materialized in front of me in the form of a class where students rejected me completely, they were totally uninterested in the subject I taught, too many troublemakers disturbed the lessons and I was left alone without nothing to fall back on. I found a great stenght inside of me and changed my attitude towards them I pretended not to care about their wrong behaviour and let time do the rest, after a few weeks they turned to me in a different way they seemed to appreciate my efforts and became disciplined showing a totally new interest in my learning project.

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In my professional life i have noticed one  day that one single word, one single smile and one single reinforcement could make a huge difference for a student s progress. The whole time i didn t take this small detail into account i consider a waste of time.

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My personal life consisted of quite a number of obstacles which affect my studying. However, with resilience and persistence, i kept studying. i did not stop updating myself and empatised with those students who experience obstacles themselves eg.: parent did not financially back the student so did not purchase class textbooks, students with dyslexia etc Such cases helped me to move further where it motivated me to read courses so that i could help students further. During all this, life wasn't easy for me however i had a purpose so i continued.

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3. Developing student-driven activities for PBL

In relation to my first PBL project, it was a bit elementary. Our work will often be by trial and error. We must make the effort to improve and learn from our mistakes. Make students able to build their learning through proposed problems that exposes them to motivating situations and prepares them for the world of work. Students work in groups and the teacher assumes the role of advisor. Each class consists of three main steps: problem diagnosis, problem solving and solution presentation.

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I started working as monitor of leisure activities in English camps, and then, as coordinator, guiding native monitors and organizing activities and trips. As any camp, the ultimate goal is children enjoy, have fun and, in this case, learn English in a very entertaining way. I was coordinator in two camps. In the first one, the first week four children left. I was very dissapointed cause I thought English camp will not be successful. However, I was wrong. The rest of children showed good impressiones about native monitors and everything about camp. And I continued as coordinator in the second camp and only one boy left home. Due to responsibility of my position, I am very proud of my progress and I keep it in mind for future occasions.

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I really like this quote: "getting students' to develop grit and resilience to stay with a problem or project even though they have failed previously is one the most difficult parts of PBL".
Most of my students do not have grit or resilience at all and feel discouraged very quickly. So, I am looking forward to learning new strategies!
I have had lots of experiences in my life when I felt like quitting because the troubles overwhelmed me, for example when I worked in a school with very difficult students that did not seem to learn anything from me or to be interested in anything. But I did not give up and, although the results were not brilliant, it was a positive experience, for me and for them, too.

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I had made the artist and I was discouraged by the first 6 months of math college ... but now I have two degrees and I'm starting a third! never give up. ps. At medium I did not like math and got middle grades

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It took place several years ago, I had a deaf student at my English classroom. She did not like to wear a hearing aid, so that she couldn't´t improve her spoken English. I did not know what to do. I tried many different things to make her understand that hearing aid was useful... Finally, I decided to offer her to join the theatre group (we were playing "Moulin Rouge"). She accepted and chose to dance at the ballet. As she could not listen to the music, she failed with the rhythm. She definitely decided to wear a hearing aid and she improved a lot.
I did not give up with the problem because I felt that possibly I was one of her last opportunities to help her. I believed that she was my responsibility.

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I have a webquest about Anatomy. First, I have a lot of mistakes in these new methology, but then I had feedback to my students. Finally I changed the methodology.

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Tasos, Greece.            A certain class was not behaving properly, they did not -with few exceptions- participate and kept not paying attention to what was being taught. On top of that, they were not quiet, either. They always wanted to make jokes and be funny. So, something that came to me one day was to suggest we could have a funny theatrical performance. That, alongside with an excursion we had as a class helped a lot, was fruitful, but really a consuming.

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Tasos, Greece.            A certain class was not behaving properly, they did not -with few exceptions- participate and kept not paying attention to what was being taught. On top of that, they were not quiet, either. They always wanted to make jokes and be funny. So, something that came to me one day was to suggest we could have a funny theatrical performance. That, alongside with an excursion we had as a class helped a lot, was fruitful, but really a consuming.

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Last year, in a new school, I had tremendous issues with a single class with whom it was difficult to get along because of low involvement and behavioral issues. The first three months were total failure: dialog, reproaches, furrowed brow, threats... nothing really worked.
Finally, one day it dawned on me: ignore them. And when you need to take them into account, be sarcastic, be hilarious, also be a bit mean.

It worked. Empathy ensued. They loved me.

I won, perfect :oD

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As a teacher, I've always tried to implement different methods to contribute to the development of the existing ones in every centre I've worked in. This has proven to be quite a difficult task in many occasions due to the reluctance to change shown by both students and teachers several times. Instead of giving up, I pushed further in order to be succesful, because everything needs a period of time to work out.

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I remember all too well when I started being a teacher and tried to do collaborative activities in class. At the beginning I simply used to have my students sit in groups and I somehow expected the magic to happen. I didn’t take into account assigning roles and distributing tasks properly, nor did I calculate the time I would need. I somehow focused more on the result I wanted to achieve but I failed to provide the necessary scaffolding. Also, my students noticed that I was new to this game which made me feel uncomfortable. Who wants to be considered incompetent, insecure or simply completely lost at a task? Leaving my comfort zone (which was standing in front of my class and in control of the situation while I was explaining grammar and doing a lot of exercises the traditional way) was a tough thing to do. Assuming and admitting that you fail and make mistakes in front of your students wasn’t an easy thing to do. But I kept going. And I realized that admitting that sometimes I’m lost at a task and that I have the right to be so was quite liberating. I don’t know all the answers – and I don’t need to. I am still learning.

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As a scientist, I have always been focussed on learning new things and try to imply them in my real life. In my country, having a scientist is a big deal: you have to be able to work a lot, with the only goals of your lab works, not money at all. So, basically, I started as a scientist in the University I have studied but 5 years later I had to quit. Years later, I had to opportunity to be a Biology teacher in a secondary school. What really shocks me was that when I was giving the course, I felt exactly the same as I used to feel when I was making researching work in the lab. So, I decided to be a teacher and... here I am. To sum up, I think that my real passion is keep learning, and for that reason I will never be able to give up, does not matter the place I will stay.

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When I first moved to England to complete my Masters I had a lot of trouble understanding my teachers' different accents, in spite of having a very good level of English. I found myself crying day after day thinking about the job I had given up, the family that I missed and the money that I had invested. I was about to give up. I skipped my mother, crying, to let her know of my decision and she said: 'I support whatever you decide to do but you were never the one to quit. You never gave up on anything.' She gave the strength that I needed to continue. I bought myself an audio recorder and heard the lectures time and time again until I finally started to get used to it. I finished my Master with Distinction...thanks to my mum.

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Learning situations that were unsuccessful and students demonstrated difficulties in understanding. My insistence was made through diversification of learning strategies emphasizing peer work, oral presentation of specific themes for the class or the elaboration of works for thematic expositions done individually, in group work or with the participation of the parents.

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It's difficult to teach grammar items, because students frequently get bored when they have to listen to a series of rules. To avoid such a boring learnig context, I introduced some funny games to teach grammar

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When I study a foreign language I find it difficult at the beginning, but my motive to learn it keeps me working in order to achieve!

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When I started working as a bilingual teacher, I found really difficult to teach Math, Science and Social Studies in English, as I had graduated to be a language teacher. However, I didn't give up and I studied, researched a lot to find strategies to  help my students to learn through English. Eventually I succeeded and nowadays, teaching other subjects in English is quite natural for me.

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When I was first Introduced to a PBL online course I couldn’t keep up with the tasks I had to accomplish so I gave up, but then I decided to join the course again!

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This online course was quite an issue for me.
As every teacher, I guess, I have always lots of work so I was nearly giving up. However, I wanted so much to do it that I managed to find the strength to fight my own fatigue.

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Last year with my 5th grade class it was so hard to do listening activities for teaching English. They didn't want to listen English because they couldn't understand. I didn't gave up. I let them listen enjoyable songs then I got them familiar with English. Now they do listening activities voluntarily.

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When I started my job, my students got low levels from my written examination. I cried long time... In process I learned to prepare exam

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Last year I had in my 4th grade class a pupil new arrived from another italian city. He never studied or did a homework. With my class collegue never give up and at the end of the year he started to collaborate, study and do homework. It was a great success for us.

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Sometimes you have to give up something in order to get it (maybe) later.
I gave up teaching because what I got was just languages academies and I didn't want that work for the rest of my life. I thought I might never come back to teaching and that made me sad. However, things change and I got a great opportunity 2 years ago in the school I am actually working on :)

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When I had less experience I was giving too much information by creating a overload ... later I realized with the years that selection is what allows us to be good teachers.

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I have had several situations in my life where I was first unsuccessful but then I was able to succeed.
Like the use of office 365 in our school, my colleagues refused to use it and then accepted it as an idea and used it.

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My example is simple. In the beginning of my teaching practise I used to be regular teacher - standing in a front of the class and explaining things. My students were bored almost every lesson. So, I had to do something. I had to change my opinion in teaching. Actually, I had to understand that they must to learn, I have to help them - not to teach them. So, I brought in active self-learning approaches in my work. Now my lessons are much more interesting than then.

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In our school, 5 grades have 3 hours of English. Last year we opened two ELT classes for 5th grades. They had 13 hours of English a week. I was teaching skills at this class. At first it was too hard to communicate with students in target language. I tried to find different videos, games and songs to motivate them. It was hard but at the same time very satisfying. At the end of the term it was great to see their improvement.

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In my teaching practice I had some negative experiences when students were bored during my lessons because of my traditional way of teaching. Now I am more confident with modern approaches, so students can be interested and satisfied. (ex. Google Classroom).

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I'm an English teacher, and when I started teaching in my school, it was very hard when I talked to my students in English because they did not understand all I said. But later, I tried some techniques like writing some basic sentences around the class, talking to them in English all the time, even when they did not understand, I used gestures and mimic till I got my goal. I also tried some daily routines where the students could understand because of the context. So little by little my students start understanding me and even, they try some sentences, and so on.

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In my practice, I have several unsuccessful situations in which the lesson I have devised has not been received. In the beginning, my great mistake was that I wanted to give more to the pupils than they could take. Whether students listen to theory, discuss or do something, they have a limit of acceptance of the information.And this limit changes not only in age but also in their emotional state.

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I had the opportunity to lead a teenage handball team. After an intense preparation we lost our first match against a theoretically inferior opponent. After the disappointment, analyzing with the video to correct the errors and enhance our skills we get to turn the results to become a solid team

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When I first started teaching it was hard for me to adjust to all the school rules and I had way to many children in my classroom. Throughout the school year I was able to create strategies that facilitated my teaching and also gave more freedom to the children. Some strategies worked and others failed, but those experiences helped me grow to the teacher that I am today.

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I have had several situations in my life where I was first unsuccessful but then I was able to succeed. One of them is my office in scholl where I coach students and teachers (https://www.facebook.com/Guia-228455417292732) . I had several "no's" about having an office like this in the school (I am a Biology teacher) but now I have it running and I even have a waiting list.
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The first time I took the Official exams to become a State-school teacher in Spain I failed. I never gave up and two years later I succeeded. All the effort was worthy.

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Nowadays that there’s a lot of technology available and there are plenty of resources to use, it is difficult to decide what to use in your class. Sometimes you spend lots of time preparing an activity that you think is going to be both motivating and engaging for your students and once you start explaining it in class, you realize that some students are not motivated enough or find it useless or boring. This is not always the case, of course, but could be something disappointing for us. The thing is that if you keep innovating in class and you try to teach them with different methods, I think they will be more interested in your subject and will find learning more motivating.

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I have many times stuck with a task even if it seemed not to go my way both in my personal life and as an educator. I used to play football and retired from it due to injuries at the age of 29 so I decided to become a referee. I completed the course but I wasn't given any assignments that year. I didn't even get a call. I insisted and went and talked to the head of referees and finally I was trusted and started to referee in some games. I liked and enjoyed it a lot. I knew football well and was doing a pretty good job as a referee. They started to give me a lot of games and higher games to referee just a few moths later. I have many examples where good will and hard work eventually pays off. The point is not to work on it for a while if it gets stuck but to schedule it and visit it at organised periods to see if there is any changes in the context and opportunities. Everything changes and something that is not possible may become possible at another time. It's all about deciding on priorities and what you want to do with your time I believe.

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Jose Maria Reillo, Campo de Criptana (Spain)

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Jose Maria Reillo, Campo de Criptana (Spain)

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I was always Football when I was younger. I got to used different championships. A few years ago I decided to give up this sport because I wanted to play con my friends in a Indoor Football championship. For the first three years we were playing properly but we weren´t able to obtain the first position, always in second position. We had much experience but didn´t achieve our goal. However, we never thought to give up at all. At the end, we were able to win our first championship for the fourth year together.

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Like a teacher, I have had many problems in the process of teaching and learning, but throug the years. I learn that the groups of the students are different and the methodology and motivations are the best solutions to this problems. I think, Teacher have to develop the ability of work in groups and never give up under any condition.

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I think that, like everyone else, I have had many failures and successes ... in fact I am very stubborn and this leads me not to give up anything on principle.
I think that, like everyone else, I have had many failures and successes ... in fact I am very stubborn and this leads me not to give up anything on principle.
A good example of failure and resilience is this course ... I started it very well in the first week ... later I did a profile update and everything I had done disappeared (so far I have not been able to make the first revisions that have been made attributed, despite having the email with the links ...). I contacted the moderator of the course who was talking to Brussels ... and everyone tried to get back to work without success ... but it's been almost three weeks ... And what have I done? I started all over again and now that everyone has finished the course I'm still trying to do it ... I hope I can do it :)

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My 'struggle' with success vs. failure is a work-in-progress. I'm a working mum: I quit my former job (corporate event manager in a big agency) to start a career as a teacher in state school in order to be able to support my family better and for a longer time. Quite often I live frustrating moments, both with my children and my pupils, however I'm aware that if I know my objective clearly I won't give up. I think Motivation is the best tool to make people stick to the trouble and solve it successfully.

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I dont have too many failures in my life but of course ı have some.The main reason for my failures is that Im impatient.Iwant everythink to be immediately and if not I demoralize so quickly.

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I have had many failures and several successes.  I have a tendency to bite off more than I can chew and I am an idealist. This make success difficult. There are very high expectations on teachers and these are difficult to meet. I need to teach a lesson about 3-4 times before it runs smoothly. It seems that I am constantly altering my materials until my students produce the output that is expected. I am always trying new methods to help my student meet the requirements.

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There are so many failures ... personal and professional (eheheh) ... but also many successes! The main reasons are lack of time, high expectations, lack of money, wrong methodologies, wrong decisions ...

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In my personal life, I lived a very difficult moment when I was young, newly married and I tried to have a child. I couldn't carry on my pregnancies, so I had two abortions. As nothing was wrong with me or my husband, I realised that I had to change my life style and stopped working for sometime. It wasn't easy but now I have three children who have become wonderful adults. I didn't give up because it was something I really wanted.
After my chidren were born, I faced a professional challenge: to become a teacher. The third time I participated to the open examination exam, I did it thinking how to get through the difficulties and  mistakes I had done in the precedent ones. I learned from my mistakes and took the right decisions.

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When we tried to renovate my school's technical infrastructure, there were very few colleagues who needed it. Most of my colleagues were against this improvement or indifferent. So the renovation project was virtually canceled.
Now, there are a large number of new colleagues who are demanding this renovation. So this has become a project of our institution and we have made a lot of progress.

My first etwinning projects were a failure because of my lack of experience. Without giving up my efforts, I chose the subject carefully and I got involved with a team of very experienced and competent collaborators and everything went very well.

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When I got my driving license I made a trip from my city to my little village 75 Km.
My parents and I went in the car and I was driving, after 10 Km we needed to fill the gas tank and I entered the gas station, unfortunaly I hit the gas pump. My father and 2 mechanics took half an hour to fix the car. After all we went back to travel and I sit in the back of the car but my father said quietly that I had to drive to the village.  In this way I was tauhgt by my parents that an error does not mean stop doing something or at least try again and again.

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In my professional life I have a very great challenge, to introduce the visible teaching in our school. In the first phase, we work with our pupils to internalize concepts, and with our teachers how to challenge our students in the best possible learning outcomes with impact and impact. At geography of Romania I'm working to find challenges that my students learn with pleasure.

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Mostly I have 2 situations where I stuck.
1st refers to my personal life (sad stuff to talk about). 2nd refers to my work. Always when I try new things I feel excited. Even if I don't know something I keep looking for good solutions and answers. Like when trying new instruction to make a new origami model. When it is hard to understand or imagine what should be done and I simply can't do it, I give up for some time, make some additional research to find answers and try again. Sometimes it is good to wipe everything and start over with bigger focus on details.
People know me for never say "no" and for "keep trying".

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An extremely difficult situation seems to me the one I have this year. We received in grade 4 pupils who have no knowledge even for the first grade. We run from a school where they have been promoted and overlooked that they do not have the necessary knowledge because, unfortunately, the education system in my country is very sick. This year the material of the last primary school levy for 18 pupils and the other five teaches them to write and read.

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Ten years ago I decided to try to contact a British school that would like to participate in a students exchange programme. At first I sent a mass email based on search results of schools in Cambridgeshire. I wrote to them asking for a penpal  exchange. I thought it was a good starting point that would help us to talk about a future exchange programmes. Nobody answered back. So I decided to get in touch with the British Council. First they helped me to refine my search. What I had to look for schools whose curriculum included Spanish as a first or second foreign language. And if I could find schools that were part of the same Trust even better. Second I had to say in my email what I was really looking for: “I’d like to contact an English school that would like to participate in an exchange programme with Spanish students”. In a few days I received several answers. This is our seventh year running a successful students exchange programme. Besides this year some of our teachers will participate in a KA1 Erasumus + programme and be hosted in our twin exchange schools.

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In the beggining I was working in a lot of schools. And since I didn't stay long, I always tried to work like students used to with their first teacher. And at the end I found out that is better that I do things on my own way and not to try to copy someone else's work.  Since I decided to teach in my way, was easier for me and students could see same things in different ways.

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When I was 14 years old I wanted sewing long trousers on a sewing machine. I didn't know anything about sewing. The first try failed because I was sewing together wrong parts, the second failed because trousers was narrow for me, the third try was successful and I continuing with new sewing projects.

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If at first you don't succeed, dust yourself off and try again

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If at first you don't succeed, dust yourself off and try again

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I will offer a personal example, not a professional one. I took my driving license at a second attempt... I was quite a disaster at the beginning, but I managed to obtain it with perseverence and ambition! :)

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This story does not have a happy ending yet, but still I would like to share.
3 years ago I decided I neededd a driving licence and started learning. It was so difficult! For the first time in my life I felt like a very bad student, who does not understand anything and cannot do anything correctly. Besides, I was pregnant and my older child just turned one. So I took 20 lessons and was feeling absolutely hopeless. Then the baby was born and I needed to take a break.
Now, 3 year later, I understood that I really need to learn this skill. I enrolled again, I am in the process and my current teacher says that I am not that hopeless.

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My situation: Four years ago my school started implementing the iPad 1:1 environment. At that time I didn't know nothhing obout how to use this divice inside of the clasrrom... So my joruney started and in the begining I struggled a bit but after some online courses and internal training and also sharing good pratices with my work collegues, I am now proud of what I can do with the iPad and mnost af all, proud of what I can give to my students inside the clasrrom and during their projects!

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I've been teaching for 17 years in a lower secondary school, I've been a wife and a mother for almost 20 years and I guess all my life has been a story of sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing, both at a professional and personal level.
Professionally speaking the introduction of new technologies maybe was the most challenging experience. I really like using ICT in life and in class, but it takes time and a lot of energy to master all new apps and software. But I'm also quite stubborn and my motto is learning by doing and doing and doing. So I usually succeed in the end. Another aspect of my professional life that has often been disappointing at first and rewarding in the end is dealing with special needs and dyslexic students . Sometimes I really feel frustrated because I arrange loads of materials and results are poor: seeing my students working harding but failing is painful, but when we work together it's easier. I always try
to encourage them not to give up and I think this is the winning attitude : reward them for their efforts and working out together the best path towards success.

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When I was 20 years old, I wanted my driving licence but when I started with the classes, I realised that I was really bad at it. I am very clumsy, distracted and with an awful sense of direction. For that reason it take to me a lot of time, a lot of classes and a lot of money. But , as I didn´t get up, I finally get my driven licence.

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In my first year of teaching I taught 3 classes of the 12th year in the discipline of Biology. I had great difficulties because I had no teaching experience. My resilience, my hard work, the team work with my fellow teachers and the support of the school management allowed me to overcome these difficulties and overcome this challenge, in the end the students were able to achieve results in the national exams well above the national average .

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I was unsuccessful at first trying to get one of my students to work in class, I finally convinced him that English was not as difficult as he thought and that only with working in class everyday he could pass. Now he works in class and helps other students.

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I was unsuccessful when I tried to enter the University in a foreign country for the first time. When I applied , all my attempts failed.
Thanks to a cooperative activity with other applicants I finally succeeded, it has been easier then I thought1

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Because  of the earthquake of last year, my school  had to be renewed so as soon as I had this news I decided to build a website and a YouTube channel. This decision because I knew it would have been difficult to show videos and activities on the lim. I usually used the lim to start my lesson to show materials vocabularies projects multimedial products and so on. At the beginning i was lost as i didn't  know how to carry on my activities and also because i didn't  know how to  build a website  or a youtube channel. But then I tried and tried and at the end now everything is ready. I do not have the slim in my classes as I expected but I usually ask them to watch videos and collect useful materials at home so a sort of flipped classroom. To give them the prompts to follow I have a padlet which I share with them. I succeeded at the end I do not want to go back to my boring lessons following boring books.

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Last year I started a PBL in one subject I teach. It was the first time I started an activity of that kind, I have tried before competition activities with a more practical approach but not that kind. The result was not good, but I changed and improved several things during the year. Now, with the help of this course and by persisting I am succeeding in the project and my students are more engaged in achieving the aims proposed.

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Three years ago I was injured in my knee and after two surgeries I thought I couldn't walk properly and do exercise again. I had troubles and some small relapses for 5 months.
I didn't give up and now, when work and children allow me, I do bodybuilding and other kind of sports again.
I couldn't give up because I knew my children needed me strong enough to play with them, to help them in their wonderful lives.

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At the beginning of my master's degree I had several problems with my project, to the point of having to change everything, two months before the qualification.
Several times it seemed that I could not finish, but persisted. The result? I was approved, my dissertation was highly praised and will be used by the secretariat of water resources of the state of Goiás - Brazil. I was super happy!

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When I was a child, a friend told me I wasn´t good at making friends. This was very disappointing for me, but , on spite of this bad friend, I continued trying  instead of giving up, and soon, I had lots of friends. I remember feeling very proud of me

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Last year one of the classes I had to teach in was terrible! All my colleagues and I went out of each lesson very frustrated because the students didn't co-operate one another and didn't want to let us help them. They were very noisy, some of them unpolite and they daily got bad written reports from most of the teachers. At the beginning I was very disappointed and angry with them, but I kept on working, trying to do my best to educate and give them the opportunity to change that behaviour. This year the same class is going to start an eTwinning project with me and they all are very excited about it....me too

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I were unsuccessful when my students didn't  want to study economics.
It have held hard, and I began to simplifying my lessons with even more  exemples. I rember that I propose them to describe the law of demand and offer of the potatoes e they found it very interesting and amusing.

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Nothing is impossible... Lastv year was difficult for me because I had to do a big research for passing on another level, in Romania is called - I degree. At the beginning I was extremely enthusiastic but when I met the coordinator, I wanted to give up. He was extremly severe... Fortunately, I had people who encouraged me and I managed to finish my work. Now he will come in my school to really see how I work, and hopefully  he will give me the degree. If you work hard, nothing is impossible.

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At the beginning of this school year, when I had just returned to school after one year leave for giving birth, I was asked to be in charge of European projects. I didn't really know what it was all about but I enrolled eTwinning and I tried to find partners online for some projects. although I was writing to many colleagues no answer came. No success in finding any partner for a project. I didn't give up and I kept on looking and writing, I joined facebook groups and my efforts weren't in vain. I'm starting three projects this month

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The beginning of the school year is always a complicated time for me, as I am in charge of great deal of school organisation. Every year, I got stuck with this or that .....when that happens, I usually ask for advice and opinion, leave some time to think about it and maybe change the subject or the activity. When I change the activity, normally after a while, I find the SOLUTION!

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I ‘ve been teaching in a lower secondary school from 15 years but I  had  worked  as a Primary teacher for 17 years. In my school career I have encountered problems in class manegement, in my collaboration  with colleagues, in keeping deadlines but I never felt disappointed and I always told to myself that I would be able to change all negative situations. In the lower secondary school  I often had students who refused to collaborate  and prevented   other students  from  following the lessons. I  tried different approaches but my main goal   was gaining their trust. In this way , time by time,  they  started to be more active in their group class .  I think that  we can not expect to be always successful, but we  have to believe that the results can always be positive.

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Both in school and in life, I have been blocking myself for things that were no longer interested in me or that created too many organizational and practical problems.

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Giuseppe, Italy
When I was at university, I was about to fail one of my Spanish tests. So I stuck to the task of passing the exam by analysing all the past tests. Practically, I tried to note down all the common things in the past tests and studied each language content assigned. In this way, though initially I was quite afraid of being unsuccessful, I ended up working hard using a strategy that gave me the knowledge and the skills to pass my final Spanish exam.

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Well, it happened many years ago when I started my first university studies. These were difficult years for our country and we did not have access to the university with all the necessary skills. I did not pass the first exams and later I had to do compulsory army service.
Upon my return I returned to the university and did my five years of gaduación in two. The initial error and the subsequent experience changed my commitment to learning.

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When I enrolled at the university, at the faculty of computer science, I did not come from a high school course, indeed at the fifth year of high school math was not taught, so I did not have a solid foundation in math. My first "Analysis I" exam gave it 3 times before I passed it, but eventually I passed it. For me the faculty I chose was too important and could not be an exam to stop me

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I am a person who by character very much sticks with things, people, problems, tasks to the end so my entry might be a little off-topic. It has never been much of a challenge to keep up a 30 day-meditiation practice and the like. For me, giving something up that does not make sense any longer has always been much more of an issue and had to be learned the hard way. The most prominent example from my personal life is that I wanted to ‚force’ my daughter into a natural birthing process by all means but she ‚chose’ the Cesarian way into this world:) I know that I carry out things to the end by my sheer energy and willpower and I think we have to take into account here this type of learner personality as well - someone who is energetic and determined but might have a hard time being flexible and at ease with change and failure. We have to help these guys too, to, yes, hang in there but not force it.

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One of the most frustrating situations in my professional life was the hard work that I had to do to become a teacher for deaf students in national schools. I passed the theoretical test (develop one topic out of 69), then, I passed the practical test, I passed the oral defense of the syllabus I designed and my didactic unit, however, 8 out of 10 marks was not enough to get a post as a national teacher. The fact is that I had to experience three more times the same situation. I just wanted to give up. It was exhausting and very stressful at home. But finally I did. And now I am grateful for having such as incredible deaf students in my life. Sign Language and the silence perspective make me have the opportunity of visualizing education in a very interesting approach.

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When I started doing etwinning projects I had no knowledge or experience or support from colleagues. My first attempts were poor, no clear structure and with bad partner communication. But I knew I could learn it and do it properly. I finished many etwinning learning events and moocs. I had a great partner last year who has helped me tremendously and this year my projects, both of them, got European Quality Label. My pupils were extremely proud of their work and I was proud of them..and myself, for not giving up.

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One of the most frustrating situations in my professional life was the hard work that I had to do to become a teacher for deaf students in national schools. I passed the theoretical test, the practical test, I presented the syllabus I designed and I defended the syllabus an

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When I was writing my master's thesis, there was an opportunity for an irrefutable job. I accepted the proposal with great enthusiasm and, consequently, the process of investigation of my thesis was left behind. I was never a quitter, but it was not easy to reconcile work with study. Still, with the unconditional support of my family and the director of my workplace, I understood that my future would depend on my dedication and that I would have to earn the job opportunity I was able to secure. It was a big step in my life.

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Salamanca, Spain.

I am currently in a situation where my determination is playing an important role. I started a little in the world of robotics for educational purposes. I'm not particularly good at it, but it's so motivating for the students that I'm still there. In addition, the students themselves teach me many things. It is a true learning situation teacher student and student teacher. The motivation for me is to give the students a very powerful learning opportunity.

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Like Maribel from Spain, I failed too in my first attempt for a Erasmus+ KA1 project. I decided to apply three days before the deadline and I did not manage to finish in time the application (if only I had one more hour!). Next time I started preparing the application weeks before and I managed to get it all right and in time. Our proposal was approved! So, we must devote time and not get disapointed whenever we fail. We just have to try again and learn from our mistakes.

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In the end of the course phase of my master's degree, i became pregnant of my first child. I had barely started to write my dissertation when she was born. Although it was painfull to continue and there were a few setbacks, i successfully finished it. My family encouraged and supported me all the way through. Giving up would have been an enourmous frustration.  I was focused and  determined and i had two goals: progress in my career, and therefore improve my salary, and recognition.

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I remember the first years I started working as a teacher, specially one in which I worked with difficult children in a school, as they did not have habits to study, they were demotivated, etc. so they behaved very rude in class. I did not know how to motivate them so I felt very upset at this moment.
Anyway, I did not give up. I tried once and again. Time and patience gave me experience enough to continue learning from the pupils and to love my job nowadays.

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My first year as a teacher was very hard, mainly because my job was with pupils with special needs and quite demotivate. In addition, a part of them had familiar problems and crime. I was at the edge of cry, and I wanted to give up. However, many of my colleagues advised me to resist, "you must pass the barrier" and you will be a great teacher. 18 years later I continue teaching and I love my job.

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Some years ago I decided to get a specialization in French teaching even if I already had one in English and taught it. I havent' passed the selection to attend the school twice, but at the third attempt I succeeded. I  had a very pleasant experience with the school since lessons were aimed at teachers and I could share with them expertise and know-how. I couldn't say today why I had to insist three times before reaching the goal, probably I didn't study enough, but I never gave up and now I can also teach French.