Role-Playing Teaching: IATEFL speech transcript
Today I want to share with you my IATEFL speech on (who would’ve guessed) Role-Playing Games.
Entries by Monika Bigaj-Kisala
Glitter and Fun: 5 Magical Things About Teaching Adult Students
You probably know I love teaching teenagers – some say it’s because I’m quite immature myself. I enjoy teaching children – they’re so honest and pure when it comes to expressing themselves. But there is something about the adults that I had pleasure to teach that convinced me magic is not lost once you grow up – all you need to do is let them find their inner kids and see the miracles happen.
Instant ideas for awesome classes
It’s my birthday note – the first one, as I haven’t yet celebrated my own birthday on the blog. I want to thank you all for encouragement and support, for visiting my page and following me on Facebook – you’re awesome! – and, especially for my new readers I want to share a list of my most popular blog entries – they’re full of ideas you may adjust to various groups of students, so I believe you’ll find them useful.
How to survive a school year when it’s only September?
I’ve already survived a back-to-school time before an actual back-to-school madness and I’m still hyped, creative and eager to try new things (I’m quite lucky my new job is full of challenges), so I’ve decided to share some of my ideas on how to unwind and survive yet another year without sanity loss.
7 Free Online Courses in September
I believe you’re not as ready for school as you wish you were – I myself was far more excited with September as a student than as a teacher. However, September mood makes me feel like studying – so here I am with my monthly list of awesome and free online courses you may enjoy this month.
How To Teach for Exams (book review)
When I got a book on proper teaching for exams I read it immediately and I can recommend it to everyone, not only those teachers who start their adventure with exam-oriented classes. Let me share the review of How to Teach for Exams by Sally Burges and Katie Head.
7 Useful Websites for Teaching Kids
When teaching children, it’s important to use technology responsibly – we may watch a video as an encouragement, but let’s not spend the whole lesson on using IWB tools.
I am absolutely sure you can recommend a nice collection of websites and applications useful for YL teachers, but I also want to share my top seven.
Role-Playing Teaching (Part 10:Why RPGs Rock in the Classroom)
I’ve just realised I didn’t write anything about why RPGs are so cool when it comes to teaching! So here we are, a list of seven main reasons you should take your class into one of the Never-Never worlds.
7 Free Online Courses in August
I grew up and there are no longer summer holidays for me – but August makes me feel somewhat eager to learn.
Let me take you on my journey through the interesting online courses where you’ll certainly find something interesting for yourself!
Edward de Bono “Lateral Thinking” – how to make your life more creative (book review)
A short yet very inspiring book everyone should read is “Lateral Thinking” by Edward de Bono, who created the term lateral thinking, wrote the book Six Thinking Hats and is a proponent of the teaching of thinking as a subject in schools.