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Tell them what we're doing! (guest note by Ewa Torebko)
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I met Ewa last August during workshop where she shared her way of lesson planning and sharing it with her students. I found the idea just brilliant, so I asked her to write a guest post for my blog, so that you have the opportunity to learn from the master herself.

New Year, New Me? 5 ideas on how to make 2018 more organised
Today I want to share some of the ideas I've practised in 2017 which made my life considerably easier. The reason I chose to write about my personal experience is due to my work as a teacher trainer - the longer I work with new teachers, the more noticeable it is to me that a lot of teaching-oriented problems stem from poor time management.

What school leaders need to know...
I found some parts of the book a little bit outdated, however, the majority of the articles shed new light on some of the digital tools I've been using for a while. If you want to read a book that gives you a moment of reflection on your technological approach - that's a great book for you.

Role-Playing Teaching (Part 3: Being a teacher and being a Game Master)
In my previous articles I briefly described a phenomenon of Role-Playing Games and shared the reasons for which people play games - and enjoy it. Today, I want to demonstrate similarities between teaching and playing RPGs which will help me prove why RPGs can be the ultimate answer to Game-Based Learning approach.

7 free online courses in October
September is over, and October brings long evenings when you can drink tea or hot chocolate and read books... or learn, of course! With leaves falling in many beautiful colours, let me shower you with lovely online courses, that are free to participate and open for everyone. And if autumn cosiness makes you slightly lazy, the courses I want to show you will wake you up and inspire for a nice change!

5 things I should've been told when I was a rookie teacher
Being a DoS means also recruiting new teachers, and then training them to meet up the standards of our school - and this inspires me to share 5 things someone should've told me when I started teaching years ago.
Someone should have - but I had no DoS, and even though teaching runs in my blood, there are some things I had to discover by myself:

Summer school madness - 8 tips from a survivor
A friend of mine is joining a summer school in England for the very first time and asked me to write some tips for summer school virgins. Here we go, then - if I managed to survive, so will you!

7 reasons for going to teachers' conventions
I spent the last weekend in Warsaw where edunation ladies had organised an event for Directors of Studies and proper teachers. It was the first event of its kind and it reminded me a lot of fantasy fans' conventions I used to coordinate *sniff*. Good times...

Pure nonsense in the classroom
My ultimate goal in teaching is, as I've probably mentioned it already, having fun - you can't seriously expect me to be prim and proper at all times, now, can you? It's rather difficult to keep a straight face when your students make you cry from laughter, and that's something that happens to me only too often (bless my students!). With April Fools' Day writing about humour is inevitable - especially that I don't really like pranks and yet bringing humour to the classroom is surely one of my favourite aspects of teaching.

Can we keep our students focused in the classroom?
It's quite easy for me to understand my students being somewhat slow and sloppy, so here are some tricks I use to keep them focused in the classroom because hey, spring or no spring, the Passive must be reviewed.
