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My favourite moment in teaching last year was when my students did a task based activity about living in a desert island. I loved it because everyone was so engaged

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My favourite moment in teaching last year was when my students did a task based activity about living in a desert island. I loved it because everyone was so engaged

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An extremely shy learner once came up to me at the end of a lesson and asked me for advice on how to improve her speaking and communication skills since she didn’t feel prepared to speak in class. I suggested taking up the Drama group we offered so that she would get the confidence she needed and practice a lot as well. To cut a long story short, she got really into theatre and drama plays and decided to pursue a career in acting. By the way, she improved significantly her speaking skills

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An extremely shy learner once came up to me at the end of a lesson and asked me for advice on how to improve her speaking and communication skills since she didn’t feel prepared to speak in class. I suggested taking up the Drama group we offered so that she would get the confidence she needed and practice a lot as well. To cut a long story short, she got really into theatre and drama plays and decided to pursue a career in acting. By the way, she improved significantly her speaking skills

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It was actually when one of my students who happens to be in the autism spectrum shared with me that he had just found out that some kids from his school had been “false friends” to him. It was really touching and at the same time it made me feel as someone he trusted enough to share something that personal

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It was actually when one of my students who happens to be in the autism spectrum shared with me that he had just found out that some kids from his school had been “false friends” to him. It was really touching and at the same time it made me feel as someone he trusted enough to share something that personal

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A student who was always told by his teachers that he was “not clever with English” and “will never do well” always sat silently in my lessons. I started to call on him for answers even when his hand wasn’t raised. I praised his PARTICIPATION and not his accuracy. It was as though for the first time he had permission to share his own thoughts and ideas without being corrected for his lack of grammar and vocabulary. He recently came to me and told me, “Mr Thompson, I never loved English till I came to your lessons”. That is why I teach ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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A student who was always told by his teachers that he was “not clever with English” and “will never do well” always sat silently in my lessons. I started to call on him for answers even when his hand wasn’t raised. I praised his PARTICIPATION and not his accuracy. It was as though for the first time he had permission to share his own thoughts and ideas without being corrected for his lack of grammar and vocabulary. He recently came to me and told me, “Mr Thompson, I never loved English till I came to your lessons”. That is why I teach ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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My favourite moment in teaching last year was when my students did a task based activity about living in a desert island. I loved it because everyone was so engaged

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My favourite moment in teaching last year was when my students did a task based activity about living in a desert island. I loved it because everyone was so engaged

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I had a student who decided to comeback to studying English just because she liked the lessons. She’s fluent now and doesn’t really need English lessons anymore but I’m glad she wants to keep going anyway.

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I had a student who decided to comeback to studying English just because she liked the lessons. She’s fluent now and doesn’t really need English lessons anymore but I’m glad she wants to keep going anyway.

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Bringing about cultural awareness and understanding among my students from different cultural backgrounds There is more respect for each other now.

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Bringing about cultural awareness and understanding among my students from different cultural backgrounds There is more respect for each other now.

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One of my Iraqi students shared his earliest childhood memory of an American soldier’s kindness during the US invasion in the early 2000s when we were starting a new unit on Memory and Learning.

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One of my Iraqi students shared his earliest childhood memory of an American soldier’s kindness during the US invasion in the early 2000s when we were starting a new unit on Memory and Learning.

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When I came back after being 3 months at home, teaching online, and my students said: “it’s so good to be together again. We missed you a lot, teacher”!

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When I came back after being 3 months at home, teaching online, and my students said: “it’s so good to be together again. We missed you a lot, teacher”!

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Having my students playing a vocabulary game using paper slips sitting together after such a long time teaching online, clearly having the time of their lives

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Having my students playing a vocabulary game using paper slips sitting together after such a long time teaching online, clearly having the time of their lives

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One of my 12-year-old student told me she really find herself in English and find confidence through English after I taught her for few months. I saw the sparks and passion in her eyes it was really rewarding.

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One of my 12-year-old student told me she really find herself in English and find confidence through English after I taught her for few months. I saw the sparks and passion in her eyes it was really rewarding.

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I experienced in the early part of 2021 the use of online platforms for teaching during the pandemic. Students in Sudan really enjoyed the use of break out rooms on zoom which really added on to the experience in teaching regardless of the situation. It added more digital literacy in my country.

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I experienced in the early part of 2021 the use of online platforms for teaching during the pandemic. Students in Sudan really enjoyed the use of break out rooms on zoom which really added on to the experience in teaching regardless of the situation. It added more digital literacy in my country.

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When my students gave me 5 stars in the exit ticket.

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When my students gave me 5 stars in the exit ticket.

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My student took 6 times IELTS but he was not able to pass 6.0 to be accepted by his next level of education. He found me on a website and contacted me. We’ve started lessons right after the demo lesson. I’ve gone through writing examples on ielts website and this gave him an idea how to start or how not to start somehow. As he read more examples, he developed a conscious about what he should write to get over 6.0. We’ve had 22 sessions in a month. He took the exam in March 21’ in Istanbul. His writing was 7.0! He was shocked by this score. But he really deserved it. He did over 60 example essays during our prep time. He texted me today when I shared my story from IATEFL. He said he’s a student at UCL and he wanted to buy me a dinner when I get back to London.That’s what a teacher wants I guess. Not the free dinner of course lol. To see his/her students’ success

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My student took 6 times IELTS but he was not able to pass 6.0 to be accepted by his next level of education. He found me on a website and contacted me. We’ve started lessons right after the demo lesson. I’ve gone through writing examples on ielts website and this gave him an idea how to start or how not to start somehow. As he read more examples, he developed a conscious about what he should write to get over 6.0. We’ve had 22 sessions in a month. He took the exam in March 21’ in Istanbul. His writing was 7.0! He was shocked by this score. But he really deserved it. He did over 60 example essays during our prep time. He texted me today when I shared my story from IATEFL. He said he’s a student at UCL and he wanted to buy me a dinner when I get back to London.That’s what a teacher wants I guess. Not the free dinner of course lol. To see his/her students’ success

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I was teaching English in China to a group of 5 year-olds. They had been practicing animals, number, colours, etc. Next I added prepositions. I showed the children where I "hid" some coloured mice (red mouse in the bag, yellow mouse on the box, etc). Next I asked the children were the mice were. "Where is the blue mouse?" One boy said "under!" I asked "under the bag?" "No", said the boy "Under the box!" I checked..... and indeed "Yes, it is under the box!", at the same time revealing the picture of the blue mouse. And I could see the boy was excited. We looked at each other and we were felt like we were sharing a secret! The secret of using a foreign language!

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I was teaching English in China to a group of 5 year-olds. They had been practicing animals, number, colours, etc. Next I added prepositions. I showed the children where I "hid" some coloured mice (red mouse in the bag, yellow mouse on the box, etc). Next I asked the children were the mice were. "Where is the blue mouse?" One boy said "under!" I asked "under the bag?" "No", said the boy "Under the box!" I checked..... and indeed "Yes, it is under the box!", at the same time revealing the picture of the blue mouse. And I could see the boy was excited. We looked at each other and we were felt like we were sharing a secret! The secret of using a foreign language!

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It was when one of my students told me that she is “no longer intimidated by speaking activities”. She continued saying that I helped her be more confident and that she has not been encouraged by other teachers who used to leave her out and focused on more outspoken students.

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It was when one of my students told me that she is “no longer intimidated by speaking activities”. She continued saying that I helped her be more confident and that she has not been encouraged by other teachers who used to leave her out and focused on more outspoken students.

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I would say that it was when I taught my first lesson in person after more than one and a half year online. Being able to see students back in the classroom was an indescribable feeling! It was also good to see how much they have progressed and skills they have developed throughout the pandemic and remote learning

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I would say that it was when I taught my first lesson in person after more than one and a half year online. Being able to see students back in the classroom was an indescribable feeling! It was also good to see how much they have progressed and skills they have developed throughout the pandemic and remote learning

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When I saw one of my teacher training student present at IATEFL .

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When I saw one of my teacher training student present at IATEFL .

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Student created personalised song for me at end of year as something to remember her by. Sang out of tune but amazing anyway.

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Student created personalised song for me at end of year as something to remember her by. Sang out of tune but amazing anyway.

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My favourite moment was when students started to trust me and themselves in the classroom to ask me pronunciation questions. The felt helped and more confident in speaking English and I felt appreciated.

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My favourite moment was when students started to trust me and themselves in the classroom to ask me pronunciation questions. The felt helped and more confident in speaking English and I felt appreciated.

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When the students were finally allowed to come back to school instead of having online lessons I missed to hear their stories face to face

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When the students were finally allowed to come back to school instead of having online lessons I missed to hear their stories face to face

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Brainstorming ideas via micro board and gaming diverse ideas from my students teaching the to categorise the aspects. It’s fascinating t observe they generate ideas and interact with each other making comments

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Brainstorming ideas via micro board and gaming diverse ideas from my students teaching the to categorise the aspects. It’s fascinating t observe they generate ideas and interact with each other making comments

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One of my favourite moments in class was kids snuggling up, telling me they love me, having the whiteboard ready for me with lovely poems and messages.

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One of my favourite moments in class was kids snuggling up, telling me they love me, having the whiteboard ready for me with lovely poems and messages.

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A text from a former student saying she passed the test and thanking me the years I taught her.

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A text from a former student saying she passed the test and thanking me the years I taught her.

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Running dictation with 6th graders, the task was aimed to practice their reading and writing skills .the text included all neede vocabulary on the topic

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Running dictation with 6th graders, the task was aimed to practice their reading and writing skills .the text included all neede vocabulary on the topic

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I was very happy when my students succeeded in their exams and they were excited and their parents, too! They are amazing and witty! I can read their love on their smiley faces all the time!

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I was very happy when my students succeeded in their exams and they were excited and their parents, too! They are amazing and witty! I can read their love on their smiley faces all the time!

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Service learning project in December Basically students gathered information about the place they live in and we went into main avenues and the airport to provide free information to tourists and visitors. It was a great way to improve speaking and learn more about our island and communities.

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Service learning project in December Basically students gathered information about the place they live in and we went into main avenues and the airport to provide free information to tourists and visitors. It was a great way to improve speaking and learn more about our island and communities.

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Teaching Ukrainian refugees English at the local zoo

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Teaching Ukrainian refugees English at the local zoo

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Students finally engaging in conversation about coping with the pandemic as paramedics, in English! They found it easier to speak online so YAY for online learning!

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Students finally engaging in conversation about coping with the pandemic as paramedics, in English! They found it easier to speak online so YAY for online learning!

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I had co-teaching sessions with my students during the seminar classes as well as lectures, and I received so much appreciation towards such sessions from the students, as they enjoyed the process itself to the full extent. I am willing to share my experience if it helps my colleagues all around the world.

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I had co-teaching sessions with my students during the seminar classes as well as lectures, and I received so much appreciation towards such sessions from the students, as they enjoyed the process itself to the full extent. I am willing to share my experience if it helps my colleagues all around the world.

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It is the moment when my learners were happy because I have won the prize in the contest to go to Belfast IATEFL conference

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It is the moment when my learners were happy because I have won the prize in the contest to go to Belfast IATEFL conference

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I used to teach a very clever student.He was 11 when he started learning English because he, at that time, had already decided that he would have studied neuroscience at university in the USA after high school.Suddenly, he left classes to come back after some years because he wanted to acquire a certificate of English.Unfortunately, he had been suffering from a disease that had hindered him participating in classes. Consequently, we decided that he would have attended face-to-face sessions.After a while he had been attending individualised classes, his health started improving. Moreover, he passed his exam brilliantly.Learning English had helped him to retrieve some self-confidence and become successful again.

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I used to teach a very clever student.He was 11 when he started learning English because he, at that time, had already decided that he would have studied neuroscience at university in the USA after high school.Suddenly, he left classes to come back after some years because he wanted to acquire a certificate of English.Unfortunately, he had been suffering from a disease that had hindered him participating in classes. Consequently, we decided that he would have attended face-to-face sessions.After a while he had been attending individualised classes, his health started improving. Moreover, he passed his exam brilliantly.Learning English had helped him to retrieve some self-confidence and become successful again.

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Being able to be emphatic and be in the students shoes. It provided memorable moments and motivational spaces for learning and teaching:-)

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Being able to be emphatic and be in the students shoes. It provided memorable moments and motivational spaces for learning and teaching:-)

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One of my favourite teaching moments was when on the last day of class my international students presented me with a “thank-you” card with my avatar on it which they had designed as a group!

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One of my favourite teaching moments was when on the last day of class my international students presented me with a “thank-you” card with my avatar on it which they had designed as a group!

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The moment when I thought I drew a dog and my students told me…..’What a nice a pig’!

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The moment when I thought I drew a dog and my students told me…..’What a nice a pig’!

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When all my students activated their cameras for full session!

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When all my students activated their cameras for full session!

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A student who manages to ruffle everyone’s feathers in my American politics lessons made a point to thank me for modelling kindness despite our clear political differences. Made my day!

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A student who manages to ruffle everyone’s feathers in my American politics lessons made a point to thank me for modelling kindness despite our clear political differences. Made my day!

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One of the students told me he was looking forward to my classes as we were discussing some films and novels that showed him some different perspectives. He spent the whole year at home being a vulnerable person so, as he mentioned, it was his best window to the outside world

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One of the students told me he was looking forward to my classes as we were discussing some films and novels that showed him some different perspectives. He spent the whole year at home being a vulnerable person so, as he mentioned, it was his best window to the outside world

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I was teaching preschoolers toys vocabulary and we were playing toy shop activity and while we were doing it, one of students said : awesome, I feel I own the shop,. So that was a moment I realised how fluent they can be at 5!

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I was teaching preschoolers toys vocabulary and we were playing toy shop activity and while we were doing it, one of students said : awesome, I feel I own the shop,. So that was a moment I realised how fluent they can be at 5!

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It happened several months ago, I had a student who was so nervous about IELTS Speaking and Listening. He would panic during our lessons and literally freeze, although his English was really good. So we focussed on breathing, staying calm, etc. After 2 months he took the exam and got 7.5 in Listening and 6.5 in Speaking. And got into his first-choice university! I can’t express how proud of him I felt! He’s in the Netherlands now studying towards his bachelor’s degree.

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It happened several months ago, I had a student who was so nervous about IELTS Speaking and Listening. He would panic during our lessons and literally freeze, although his English was really good. So we focussed on breathing, staying calm, etc. After 2 months he took the exam and got 7.5 in Listening and 6.5 in Speaking. And got into his first-choice university! I can’t express how proud of him I felt! He’s in the Netherlands now studying towards his bachelor’s degree.

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My favourite moment was when my students came back to face to face classes.

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My favourite moment was when my students came back to face to face classes.

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I always be happy when my students and their parents happy from my teaching.

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I always be happy when my students and their parents happy from my teaching.

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I was practising English with a child who struggled doing extra work. This time it took her ages to settle down and start working being a ADHD and suffering from dyslexia. Her results were far from good this time. She needed to read and write so she had to sit on the chair suposingly quietly but she kept moving all the time. I thought how to assess her work and provide feedback this time in a positive way. Actually, there was nothing to praise her for. Every thing she did was wrong. I didn’t want to lie. Perhaps the only thing which could have gone even a bit -not much- worse, was her behaviour. She I said: Anna, I saw you trying hard but there was hardly any correct answer today. But you were sitting PRETTY still. And her response was striking: yes, I was trying hard. Lesson I learnt: While We practising English, she was also doing another practice eg sitting still. That took so much of her energy that she could not perform well in English. On the top of that, her effort was not visible. I was happy to keep calm and praise the real performance instead of explaining how much better she should do. Not everything which is happening is visible . Be fair, supportive and trust your learners.

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I was practising English with a child who struggled doing extra work. This time it took her ages to settle down and start working being a ADHD and suffering from dyslexia. Her results were far from good this time. She needed to read and write so she had to sit on the chair suposingly quietly but she kept moving all the time. I thought how to assess her work and provide feedback this time in a positive way. Actually, there was nothing to praise her for. Every thing she did was wrong. I didn’t want to lie. Perhaps the only thing which could have gone even a bit -not much- worse, was her behaviour. She I said: Anna, I saw you trying hard but there was hardly any correct answer today. But you were sitting PRETTY still. And her response was striking: yes, I was trying hard. Lesson I learnt: While We practising English, she was also doing another practice eg sitting still. That took so much of her energy that she could not perform well in English. On the top of that, her effort was not visible. I was happy to keep calm and praise the real performance instead of explaining how much better she should do. Not everything which is happening is visible . Be fair, supportive and trust your learners.

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It was when I was finally delivering my first Pecha Kucha presentation about a topic I was really enthusiastic about. I hoped to inspire my students to get out of their comfort zone and also to apply technology in their teaching. It was quite successful and the students were really impressed when I revealed I only practised the presentation twice beforehand.

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It was when I was finally delivering my first Pecha Kucha presentation about a topic I was really enthusiastic about. I hoped to inspire my students to get out of their comfort zone and also to apply technology in their teaching. It was quite successful and the students were really impressed when I revealed I only practised the presentation twice beforehand.

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My favourite teaching moment was when I taught a rap chant to revise past simple regular verbs pronunciation in a primary school where I teach.

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My favourite teaching moment was when I taught a rap chant to revise past simple regular verbs pronunciation in a primary school where I teach.

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The student got the score that she wanted and was much more willing to be engaged in the classroom and shared her own experience. That’s really wonderful when you have such sense of achievement and can bring more to your students.

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The student got the score that she wanted and was much more willing to be engaged in the classroom and shared her own experience. That’s really wonderful when you have such sense of achievement and can bring more to your students.

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My favourite teaching moment from 20021-2022 was when my student got 7.0. I was proud of her and I realised that my efforts were paid off .

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My favourite teaching moment from 20021-2022 was when my student got 7.0. I was proud of her and I realised that my efforts were paid off .

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After attending British Councils Project ( English Together) in Turkey, My boring lessons began to be more fun with various of activities, and in a short time my students kept asking me " Teacher, are we going to have another activity? Many thanks to British Council Turkey.

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After attending British Councils Project ( English Together) in Turkey, My boring lessons began to be more fun with various of activities, and in a short time my students kept asking me " Teacher, are we going to have another activity? Many thanks to British Council Turkey.

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My favourite teaching moment was this week! I was in a workshop with a group of PhD students who wanted to know more about language matters. It was beautiful to see such wonderful, curious and dedicated researchers for our share future!

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My favourite teaching moment was this week! I was in a workshop with a group of PhD students who wanted to know more about language matters. It was beautiful to see such wonderful, curious and dedicated researchers for our share future!

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It was raining cat and dog on that 19 th February 2021, as my students were tickling I for the lectures one of them drenched walked up to me and said ‘Prof can we call this class a day ‘. And the entire class started rejoicing and shouting yea yea let’s call it a day. I was stunned.

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It was raining cat and dog on that 19 th February 2021, as my students were tickling I for the lectures one of them drenched walked up to me and said ‘Prof can we call this class a day ‘. And the entire class started rejoicing and shouting yea yea let’s call it a day. I was stunned.

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When I decided to leave teaching and move to edutech towards the end of 2021, my students did not want to let me go. This was most emotional time for me. Interestingly, from the moment they learnt about my transition until we parted finally all homework was done on time. They so wanted to prove to me that I should stay. I miss them dearly.

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When I decided to leave teaching and move to edutech towards the end of 2021, my students did not want to let me go. This was most emotional time for me. Interestingly, from the moment they learnt about my transition until we parted finally all homework was done on time. They so wanted to prove to me that I should stay. I miss them dearly.

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I taught a group of scholarship awardees who got an Australian Aid Scholarship. After teaching an intensive English program and IELTS test prep, one of the awardeees sent an SMS with her IELTS results: 7.5 which exceeded her target by a whole band score. Her dream became a reality.

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I taught a group of scholarship awardees who got an Australian Aid Scholarship. After teaching an intensive English program and IELTS test prep, one of the awardeees sent an SMS with her IELTS results: 7.5 which exceeded her target by a whole band score. Her dream became a reality.

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It was a group activity where I gave the students cards with pictures. The topic was 2 conditional sentences and the students had to make up sentences one after each other. I also loved jeopardy, snakes and ladders, running dictations

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It was a group activity where I gave the students cards with pictures. The topic was 2 conditional sentences and the students had to make up sentences one after each other. I also loved jeopardy, snakes and ladders, running dictations

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I got thrilled when I heard one of my 16-year old students was able to get a high score in IELTS exam. It was a rare occasion when in our school there was a high scorer student. I was glad that my teaching efforts were rewarded.

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I got thrilled when I heard one of my 16-year old students was able to get a high score in IELTS exam. It was a rare occasion when in our school there was a high scorer student. I was glad that my teaching efforts were rewarded.

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This happened right after we went back to our classrooms and one of my students (age 10) ran towards me and quickly hugged me around my waste. Thenall of a sudden he said: “Teacher, you’ve put on some weight.”😂😂😂 Imagine the things our students notice about us,

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This happened right after we went back to our classrooms and one of my students (age 10) ran towards me and quickly hugged me around my waste. Thenall of a sudden he said: “Teacher, you’ve put on some weight.”😂😂😂 Imagine the things our students notice about us,

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Inventing a New Approach to TESOL which I called “The ECO-Linguistics Approach to TESOL”

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Inventing a New Approach to TESOL which I called “The ECO-Linguistics Approach to TESOL”

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Role -playing on the topic Healthy habits, one student was nominated as a doctor who came for TV show. Students wrote 1question per stripe paper, then stripe questions mingled around students.

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Role -playing on the topic Healthy habits, one student was nominated as a doctor who came for TV show. Students wrote 1question per stripe paper, then stripe questions mingled around students.