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7 Ideas for Engaging Homework Online
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I believe we should share our enthusiasm, our true passion for not only teaching but using English and adapt homework to our students' needs, styles of learning and interests. Homework assignments may be yet another way to personalise our approach and show our students the benefits of taking responsibility for their own educational process.

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.

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.

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!

7 Free Online Courses in July
Summer break may be a great time to work on our skills and abilities, especially when we know that the new school year is bound to bring changes. This month I've decided to focus on the courses that are quite summerish and light, so you can learn between a morning suntanning session and an afternoon nap, when you sip some chilled white wine while nibbling on sweet cherries...

7 Free Online Courses in June
With warmer days we may either feel encouraged to spend days in the garden or in the park, or to spend evenings outside, enjoying slightly cooler air. I myself prefer the second option, especially that, as usually, I have so much to learn, that evenings and studying seem to be one... for ever.
Even if you're not as much into CPD as I am, you might find some of the courses interesting:

Free Online Courses in April
April showers bring... a lot of free online courses. With the weather still unpredictable, it's still a nice idea to spend windy days at home, studying and developing our teacherish skills... and not only those, as I found some courses everyone might find useful, not only teachers.

Quizizz: making tests fun (+ activity ideas)
You must have heard of Quizlet and Kahoot!, but today I want to share my favourite quiz-making application: Quizizz. Apart from a name (try remembering which z is doubled!), this tool is not only useful and easy to grasp, but also fun to use, both for teachers and students. Quizizz allows people to create and use one another’s multiple-choice quizzes, so they can be used live as a form of classroom competition, or as homework.

7 Free Online Courses in March
I find March a perfect month for online learning - long, rainy days, still cold and grey just made to stay in and study. I have a ton of books to read, but I simply cannot resist a good online course, so here we are with a set of seven fresh online courses.

5 Tips on How to Start a Course without a Coursebook
After years of dealing with students who are interested in classes but not really with coursebooks, I came up with five steps that will help you in case you're stuck with covering for a teacher who's forgotten to leave the teacher's book, creating a very short course or managing a course that isn't supplemented with students' copies.