How to select the right exams for your students
It is the usual headache at the beginning of every academic year. Parents and students alike keep bombarding…
Category: Education
What Does ‘Cold Turkey’ Mean? Plus the Meaning of 5 Other ‘Turkey’ Phrases
Have you ever wondered what cold turkey has to do with quitting a habit? We have the answer to…
Teaching to the test
Standardized tests are primarily associated with large-scale tests administered to large populations of students. A standardized test is any form of test that…
To Qualify the Quantity or to Quantify the Quality?
It is truly fascinating how people’s remarkable lives influence the way one may think about almost everything. I had…
Continuous Professional Development (CPD): a necessity or a trend?
CPD stands for Continuous Professional Development and it normally refers to the knowledge and skills obtained beyond the formal education…
The Unique Teacher-Student Relationship
The teacher-student relationship has always been included in the list of relationships that contribute to the psycho-emotional growth of the…
A Teacher’s individual research and scientific methods in language classrooms
There is no doubt that teachers are more effective in their profession when they are aware of the basic principles…
From Story Reading to Story Telling and Story Devising
Part 3 of this series of articles on story telling will start by suggesting that stories be implemented more frequently…
Vocational Qualifications: or finding one’s own Voice
As teachers who perpetually vie for fulfilling the optimum outcome for a multitude of profoundly different personalities, the practice years…
Embedding top employability skills into vocational education: Producing leaders for the 21st century workforce
This article highlights the concept of “employability” and the importance of acquisition of employability skills. Employability skills are referred…