Digital teacher

I believe that most teachers would agree with the statement that teaching English through content can bring a lot benefits. It changes classroom dynamics by making the learners more involved in the processes of knowledge construction instead of 'putting information in the heads of learners'. However there are still doubts about how it should be implemented on a daily basis. I think this might be a challenge for the teachers, the students and the school administration. On the other hand, it should be one of modern schools' priority to aim at introducing bilingual classes when the number of students attending schools is decreasing due to the demographics. A few years ago I had an experience of preparing a chemistry lesson in English in my school and I must admit that it involved a  lot of preparation both on my side and my colleague - the chemistry teacher. First, I needed to  become an expert in the material covered by the lesson and then I had to design every minute of the ...

I believe teaching grammar in a creative and engaging way should be a duty for both novice and experienced teachers. I have been teaching English for almost twenty years and I have already seen different reactions of students to grammar lessons. When I taught grammar beginning with presenting the rule first just to move on to do drills and other boring exercises I could see them yawning and I must say this is the worst sight that any teacher can be exposed to. Using methods such as storytelling, dictogloss or even preparing grammar lessons based on songs can really make  a difference. Once I also used jokes and I think using humour has the power to energize students and bring positive outcomes that is basically correct use of particular grammar structures. When teaching grammar teachers should bear in mind that students have different learning styles and use different learning strategies. That is why the mode of teaching grammar should be changed to cater for different learning n...