2020-21 Annus horribilis or mirabilis? Insights and thoughts on the new academic year…
By Dimitris Primalis The new academic year is about to start and millions of educators around the globe wonder…
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English For 21st Century Skills
This book, co-edited by Daniel Xerri and Sophia Mavridi, showcases cutting-edge theory and practice in the development and integration of…
It’s all about synapses! We are all about synapses!
What is Teacher Development to me? It’s the air that I breathe, exhilaration, edutainment, juggling, invention, connection, an exciting game…
EFL Teachers are Tree Trunks
The metaphor used in the title successfully illustrates in my view, the special place an EFL educator has in the…
Dust settles, I don’t
While the world has come to a halt due to the pandemia of the COVID-19 and everyone has been asked…
CELTA Certification for ELT teachers: Could it be a rainbow at the end of the storm?
Unprecedented circumstances have “temporarily” brought about monumental changes to our life, as we knew it. Indeed, millions of people expect…
The Child and the Screen: what now?
If you’ve been reading my articles, I wrote one a year ago, called ‘The Child and the Box’ and it…
Online teaching: Some thoughts!
Online teaching is teaching that takes place over the Internet in a virtual classroom and not in the…
De-Mystifying Mindfulness
I am attending an online course on Mindfulness at the University of Leiden in Holland using the Coursera platform.…
Kahoot! & Cambridge English partner
Cambridge Assessment English has teamed up with game-based learning platform Kahoot! to launch a range of games that help young learners practise English…