A teacher's diary

An EFL teacher's blog about teaching, learning and how these two always go together.

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When I read about Jamie Oliver's campain to put compulsory practical food education on the school curriculum (Read more at http://www.foodrevolutionday.com/campaign/#10iM1DV3ojtd6xj2.99 ), I did ...

http://sanjasays.blogspot.com/2015/05/food-revolution-day-2015.html

23rd Annual HUPE Conference was a perfect event for all teachers lucky to be in Solaris Beach Resort, Šibenik, Croatia,for the weekend 24-26 April 2015. The venue was beautiful, everything was ...

http://sanjasays.blogspot.com/2015/05/hupe-conference-2015_2.html

Sunday’ plenary was exactly what teachers in a lot of contexts need nowadays – a beautifully put reminder that technology is not the magic wand that the teacher uses to ensure students are l...

http://sanjasays.blogspot.com/2015/04/joy-egberts-engagement-principles.html

 The Annual International IATEFL Conference & Exhibition is in full swing but I am one of a large number of teachers who did not get the chance to travel to Manchester. I have been to...

http://sanjasays.blogspot.com/2015/04/iatefl-online.html

It's Day 2 of HUPE Annual Conference in Opatija, the day of my presentation. I know there might be some more more important and more valuable speeches and workshops going on at the same time, but...

http://sanjasays.blogspot.com/2014/04/hupe-day-2-in-wonderful-world-of-words.html

Arrival: Opatija looks great, it's almost summer and there are a lot of tourists, dressed in summer clothes, walking around the town, some even soaking their feet in the sea water while en...

http://sanjasays.blogspot.com/2014/04/hupe-annual-conference-day-1.html

A full day of teaching is behind me. Still feeling a bit envious of the colleagues who are now in Harrogate, attending the 48th Annual International IATEFL conference, after I have seen all t...

http://sanjasays.blogspot.com/2014/04/harrogate-online-day-1.html

I've been tagged in a blogging meme ELEVEN by my dear friend Arjana Blažić . This is how the challenge works:  acknowledge the nominating blogger. share 11 random facts about yourself. ans...

http://sanjasays.blogspot.com/2013/12/eleven.html

I have been asked to write three most important reasons that make me appreciate a community of practice, why I find some communities more useful to my needs as a teacher than others.  I beli...

http://sanjasays.blogspot.com/2013/12/three-most-important-elements-of-cops.html

British Council organised a blogging competition on their webpage for English teachers,TeachingEnglish . It was a blogging marathon  for English teachers  from Armenia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cypr...

http://sanjasays.blogspot.com/2013/03/blog-post.html

One of the advantages of being a Webhead is that when you are  in the company of such enthusiasts, you  never stop learning about new tools to use with students or in your communication with co...

http://sanjasays.blogspot.com/2013/01/speakpipecom.html

In my PD plans, January is the month for the first weeks of  TESOL EVO online courses.  “Digital Storytelling with Young Learners“ is one of my favourites. One of the topics the teachers...

http://sanjasays.blogspot.com/2013/01/in-my-pdplans-january-is-month-for.html

Last year was a quiet one for this blog - not too many posts. It wasn't so because nothing interesting was happening in the classroom or various professional development sessions I attended. Simp...

http://sanjasays.blogspot.com/2013/01/new-years-resolutions.html

I teach EFL in Croatia, a small country in Europe. Should I include the holidays like Thanksgiving in my English lessons? A lot of teachers, parents and others who are interested in what childre...

http://sanjasays.blogspot.com/2012/11/why-teach-about-thanksgiving.html

The last day of this school year is approaching and it is time to think about what went well and what could have been done better, the lessons that worked and the lessons to be improved if I wan...

http://sanjasays.blogspot.com/2012/06/talking-cultures-project.html

Love from the World is not a project with a primarily language learning aim but I didn't hesitate for a moment to take part in it as soon as I first heard about Sun Ho's beautiful idea to ask te...

http://sanjasays.blogspot.com/2012/05/love-from-world.html

This is the lesson I created this morning, for a group of 11 year olds, to be used in a classroom without a computer, three days before our Easter break. I was very happy because my students love...

http://sanjasays.blogspot.com/2012/03/easter-baskets-for-irregular-verbs.html

It's been a busy day. I had to miss some events at the conference in Glasgow. The consolation: there are recordings to be watched on a quieter day, there are reports written by four roving report...

http://sanjasays.blogspot.com/2012/03/video-interviews-what-treat.html

Before a conference starts, interested teachers go through the Conference Programme checking day by day: plenary sessions, workshops, poster exhibitions, events… The most difficult but also the...

http://sanjasays.blogspot.com/2012/03/glasgow-online-forums.html

It’s the first day of the 46th Annual International IATEFL Conference and Exhibition in Glasgow, Scotland, which lasts 19th – 23rd March, and I am not in Glasgow, but following the online edi...

http://sanjasays.blogspot.com/2012/03/iatefl-glasgow-conference-begins.html

Last Saturday I took part in a professional development online session which was really special – TeachMeetInt'l. A group of teachers from different countries and continents, 24 of them present...

http://sanjasays.blogspot.com/2012/03/getting-ready-for-my-second-teachmeet.html

To reflect on what they have learnt during the lesson, my students sometimes spend the last part of the lesson writing a short poem, the cinquin. The cinquin consists of five lines which don't r...

http://sanjasays.blogspot.com/2012/02/writing-poetry-to-reflect-on-learning.html

There are games for all possible situations in the life and for all kinds of players. People gamify their reality for all sorts of reasons: for the feeling of happiness games give , intrinsic rew...

http://sanjasays.blogspot.com/2012/02/keen-on-professional-development-play.html

I've tried a new online tool for creating quizzes and tests - http://quizstar.4teachers.org/ QuizStar is a free site for teachers by teachers. You can register as a teacher or student. Teachers...

http://sanjasays.blogspot.com/2012/02/my-first-quizstar-quiz.html