Leadership: Nature or Nurture?
By Emmanuel Kontovas “A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim…
Category: Education
Teachers are Story Tellers
By Olga Velitzelou, FLS owner, Thessaloniki We all have the need to hear from story tellers in these difficult times.…
Embracing Newcomers in our Educational Context
By Chrysoula Lazou*, EFL state school teacher The beginning of a school year involves embracing newcomers with diverse demographics, from…
Coronavirus and distance learning: Challenges and benefits
By now, everyone living on planet Earth must have heard of coronavirus pandemic – that’s a wild guess. But,…
Remote learning can help students develop soft skills
The speed of changes during these unprecedented times we are all going through are profound and in many cases, so…
Leading FL schools in Post-pandemic Times
By Emmanuel Kontovas* Leadership is a perplexing term to define, as there are more than 350 definitions of leadership in…
Training myself to be curious
“The more courses I take and the more I learn, the hungrier I feel for more knowledge. It’s like…
Andragogy and the Riddle of the Sphinx
Education embodies ongoing commitment, whether practiced consciously or not. Lifelong education is influential for teachers irrespective of the sector or…
Reflections of an active teacher of EFL
The reasons, the means, the times, the venues and more Almost as soon as I entered the teaching profession, back…
Register transfer: Sadly, a skill no longer required by exam boards
One of the criteria used by examiners when marking the writing paper in examinations is the so called “register…