Guest Teachers

In this section you can access all the contributions from our Guest Teachers on their blogs, including their biographies and interviews. You can get involved in discussions raised by the Guest Teachers, add comments and ask them questions.

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Function and Competence  
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I’m back from the course I took in the beautiful city of Puebla de los Angeles, a two-hour drive from
Training the trainer course to develop teachers to teach competences  
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I’m away from my workplace so I beg you all to forgive me if I'm not as fast as I should be attending to my blog! I

Eleanor Occena - Interview  
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The teaching English Team interviewed me about my views on ELT and teaching in Mexico.
Eleanor Occena - Biography  
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I am Eleanor Occeña and am the third Guest Teacher on Teaching English. Please call me Ellen. I was born in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A, of Filipino parents.
Inspiring teachers to read good books  
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I often hear from my colleagues that maintaining reading habits (i.e.

Happy Teacher’s day!  
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Today was a different day for me because I am a teacher. I have been a teacher of English for more than twenty years. And every year this day adds fuel to my life as a teacher.
Teachers working in under-resourced situations  
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In Plymouth, my teacher Tony Wright used to talk about JIJO’s: jet-in-jet-out people.
Teachers as social change agents  
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It goes without saying that teachers are responsible for the change that takes place in learners.

Setting up a teacher association  
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Continuing my discussion on teacher networking, in my last blog I wrote about setting up teachers’ clubs in a single school or in school cluster areas.

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