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: construction (as of a sculpture or a structure of ideas) achieved by using whatever comes to hand, also: something constructed in this way
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Educator Consultant
May 10, 20221 min read
Writing OER Resources on Bricolageteacher
Looking for ready-made digital handouts for your writing course? find easy-to-use and adapt teaching support on our google classroom get...
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Educator Consultant
Nov 21, 20211 min read
Teaching Resources: Set of 15 short-film reflective assignments and more!
This easily adaptable set of assignments is a quick way to incorporate a reflective type of assignment into your homework or classroom...
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Educator Consultant
Nov 5, 20211 min read
Interdisciplinary studies and your approach to language teaching
Namiko Tsuruta shares her insights on how her foreign language and interdisciplinary studies have influenced the way she approaches...
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Educator Consultant
Oct 31, 20211 min read
A new spin on Task-based Teaching with Fiona Wall Minami
Escape the Classroom is an English communication textbook aimed at university students as well as advanced high school students and adult...
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Educator Consultant
Oct 8, 20211 min read
Reading books at the right level can inspire motivation!
Andrew Boon is a professor in the faculty of Global Communications at Toyo Gakuen University, Tokyo, Japan. He has been teaching in Japan...
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Educator Consultant
Oct 8, 20211 min read
Humour in language education
John Rucynski has co-authored three textbooks for university English courses in Japan and edited two books on humour in language...
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Mizuka Tsukamoto
Jun 8, 20214 min read
A story: Putting reflection into practice (to improve classroom teaching)
Mizuka Tsukamoto Entering University EFL Teaching Besides the part-time teaching job I had at one of the major Eikaiwa schools when I was...
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Jennifer Toews-Shimizu, MA
Apr 27, 20214 min read
Giving your students technological independence (and a Tech Toolbox)
Whether bringing your students online full-time or just using a learning platform to supplement and support your classroom, helping your...
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Rich Bailey, MA in TESOL
Feb 17, 20213 min read
Health & Wellbeing: Are you sitting in front of your computer too much?
Even before COVID-19 upended the teaching world, many of us were already spending too much time sitting in front of our computers. For...
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Andrew Boon, PhD
Feb 17, 20214 min read
Steps to developing effective online research skills in your students
Introduction Rather than being an emergency stopgap, remote teaching has been an excellent way to help learners develop effective...
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Sherilyn Siy, MA
Feb 17, 20213 min read
Exercise to Think Better
Everyone knows the physical benefits of exercise. Each January resolutions are made to lose weight, eat better, and exercise more often, all
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Sherilyn Siy, MA
Feb 17, 20213 min read
Deep Work for Educators
Highly productive people have three common practices: They can focus and do deep work; they know the best time of day to engage in this work
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Rich Bailey, MA in TESOL
Feb 17, 20213 min read
Build classroom rapport by easily learning student names and faces with your smartphone!
As teachers, we often ask our students to do something that is difficult, something that they do not want to do. One of the few reasons...
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Jeff Moore, PhD
Feb 17, 20213 min read
Teaching pronunciation through a mask
If you’ve been relying on exaggerated mouth movements to teach your students pronunciation, a classroom full of people wearing masks is...
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Jeff Moore, PhD
Feb 17, 20213 min read
Handier handouts and worksheets that work: using Google Docs for teaching
As teachers, we’re constantly doing three or four different jobs at once. In the classroom, you’re a coach, a counselor, and sometimes a lit
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Jeff Moore, PhD
Feb 17, 20213 min read
Your students have plenty of motivation—use it!
Each of us has dozens of goals. I would love to have time to publish ten journal articles a year, take my wife on dates, write a book, learn
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Glen Hill, M.S.
Feb 17, 20214 min read
How to start writing when you think you have nothing to write
Fiction writers call it writer’s block, a condition when you can’t seem to get started on a project or section of it. With writers of...
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Glen Hill, M.S.
Feb 17, 20214 min read
What is the manuscript revision process?
After you submit a paper, there are only two outcomes: acceptance and rejection. There may be gray areas within each, where the word “tentat
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Joseph Tomei, PhD
Feb 17, 20214 min read
Reimagining Deadlines
In the good old days, you gave an assignment, said when it was due, possibly the next class or in a few weeks. You collected the papers...
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Joseph Tomei, PhD
Feb 17, 20213 min read
Reconsidering grading in the online environment
As we threw ourselves into teaching online, many of us did not realize that looming around the bend was a challenge that would try a lot...
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