Peppermint Patty at School

Don't wanna be a lousy voice through Patty's ears.

One thing educators must keep in mind at all times: students are human beings, who might have other things in mind than the lesson we want to teach them, who live, love, have headaches and feel sleepy (including when you're talking to them!)... Let's try to keep some other points in mind too...

• students are not binary-programmed -- we have brains to think, not USB ports to receive information. And those are not industrially made, each one is unique and functions differently.
• you evaluate them, they evaluate you -- don't think you're the only one in charge of drawing conclusions...
• don't blame them for your mistakes, don't let them blame you for theirs. -- teaching-learning is  teamwork. Both parts need to find a balanced point where they speak the same language, then create productive learning experiences from that.

This is what I can get you tonight. I'll try and add something to this post later on.. if any of you and to help me out with that, just leave a post mentioning other possible topics!


talk soon, folks!

Yilts

X YÁZIGI INTERNEXUS LANGUAGE TEACHING SEMINAR

LEARNING HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE

...and then 600 teachers from all parts of Brazil come to the third biggest city in the world for a three-day Seminar on language teaching. Sharing, caring, inspiring. It's so nice to see so many teachers thinking and rethinking our knowledge and practices! Topics presented varied from the use of music and arts in classes to the ideas of authors as Vygotsky, Gardner, Morran, Lévy, etc. 

Here are some pictures of our first day of seminar.

This is me presenting the paper 

"Fun Theory: Pleasure-based learning in a Social Interactionist Approach"

     

Plenary Session

David Crabbe on Learning Opportunities in task-based classes.

Professor David Crabbe

This was the first day only. Check back for more of what's going on at YILTS X!


I really appreciated the presence of those who watched my paper. Thank you for all comments and compliments! Hope it was somewhat helpful and mostly inspiring! I'll be soon uploading the material for those who'd like to read it.


So long!


:)

No, you don't need to tell me... You don't need a flawless life plan right away. 

Just think of something meaningful (no matter if it's a goofy meaning, who cares it it's nonsense) and make it happen, NOW!

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