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If there is more you need, just send me a message to mhelena_oliveira@yahoo.co.uk :)</subtitle><link rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com/" /><link rel="next" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5431029257992479327/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25" /><author><name>Helena Oliveira</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02756109276874502274</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><generator version="7.00" uri="http://www.blogger.com">Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>163</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TeachingEnglishInPortugal" /><feedburner:info xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" uri="teachingenglishinportugal" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><link rel="license" type="text/html" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/" /><logo>http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gif</logo><feedburner:emailServiceId xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0">TeachingEnglishInPortugal</feedburner:emailServiceId><feedburner:feedburnerHostname xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0">http://feedburner.google.com</feedburner:feedburnerHostname><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431029257992479327.post-728653300577478832</id><published>2011-03-03T12:06:00.002Z</published><updated>2011-03-03T12:06:50.088Z</updated><title type="text">Teaching writing: strategies</title><content type="html">&lt;div id="abw" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-top-color: rgb(255, 51, 0); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 3px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left; text-decoration: inherit; width: 930px;"&gt;&lt;div class="clear" id="abm" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: inherit; zoom: 1;"&gt;&lt;div id="abc" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: -336px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: inherit; width: 930px;"&gt;&lt;div id="articlebody" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 351px; margin-top: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static; text-decoration: inherit;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"&gt;The most important factor in writing exercises is that students need to be personally involved in order to make the learning experience of lasting value. Encouraging student participation in the exercise, while at the same time refining and expanding writing skills, requires a certain pragmatic approach. The teacher should be clear on what skills he/she is trying to develop. Next, the teacher needs to decide on which means (or type of exercise) can facilitate learning of the target area. Once the target skill areas and means of implmentation are defined, the teacher can then proceed to focus on what topic can be employed to ensure student participation. By pragmatically combing these objectives, the teacher can expect both enthusiasm and effective learning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Choosing the target area depends on many factors; What level are the students?, What is the average age of the students, Why are the students learning English, Are there any specific future intentions for the writing (i.e school tests or job application letters etc.). Other important questions to ask oneself are: What should the students be able to produce at the end of this exercise? (a well written letter, basic communication of ideas, etc.) What is the focus of the exercise? (structure, tense usage, creative writing). Once these factors are clear in the mind of the teacher, the teacher can begin to focus on how to involve the students in the activity thus promoting a positive, long-term learning experience.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Having decided on the target area, the teacher can focus on the means to achieve this type of learning. As in correction, the teacher must choose the most appropriate manner for the specified writing area. If formal business letter English is required, it is of little use to employ a free expression type of exercise. Likewise, when working on descriptive language writing skills, a formal letter is equally out of place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With both the target area and means of production, clear in the teachers mind, the teacher can begin to consider how to involve the students by considering what type of activities are interesting to the students; Are they preparing for something specific such as a holiday or test?, Will they need any of the skills pragmatically? What has been effective in the past? A good way to approach this is by class feedback, or brainstorming sessions. By choosing a topic that involves the students the teacher is providing a context within which effective learning on the target area can be understaken.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally, the question of which type of correction will facilitate a useful writing exercise is of utmost importance. Here the teacher needs to once again think about the overall target area of the exercise. If there is an immediate task at hand, such as taking a test, perhaps teacher guided correction is the most effective solution. However, if the task is more general (for example developing informal letter writing skills), maybe the best approach would be to have the students work in groups thereby learning from each other. Most importantly, by choosing the correct means of correction the teacher can encourage rather discourage students.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"&gt;in&amp;nbsp;http://esl.about.com/cs/teachingtechnique/a/a_twrite.htm&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5431029257992479327-728653300577478832?l=teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com/feeds/728653300577478832/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5431029257992479327&amp;postID=728653300577478832&amp;isPopup=true" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5431029257992479327/posts/default/728653300577478832" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5431029257992479327/posts/default/728653300577478832" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com/2011/03/teaching-writing-strategies.html" title="Teaching writing: strategies" /><author><name>Helena Oliveira</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02756109276874502274</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431029257992479327.post-5606653732896157412</id><published>2011-03-03T12:05:00.000Z</published><updated>2011-03-03T12:05:13.198Z</updated><title type="text">25th Annual APPI Conference</title><content type="html">On the 6th, 7th and 8th of May, APPI will be holding its annual conference. This year it will be in Lisbon, in Hotel Sana Lisboa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-PIiX57wl2-Q/TW-D1zopPiI/AAAAAAAAAjY/0EOhFL6uXhE/s1600/Sana+Lisboa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-PIiX57wl2-Q/TW-D1zopPiI/AAAAAAAAAjY/0EOhFL6uXhE/s320/Sana+Lisboa.jpg" width="311" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hope to see you there! More info in www.appi.pt&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5431029257992479327-5606653732896157412?l=teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com/feeds/5606653732896157412/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5431029257992479327&amp;postID=5606653732896157412&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5431029257992479327/posts/default/5606653732896157412" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5431029257992479327/posts/default/5606653732896157412" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com/2011/03/25th-annual-appi-conference.html" title="25th Annual APPI Conference" /><author><name>Helena Oliveira</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02756109276874502274</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-PIiX57wl2-Q/TW-D1zopPiI/AAAAAAAAAjY/0EOhFL6uXhE/s72-c/Sana+Lisboa.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431029257992479327.post-6832597134994195613</id><published>2010-12-30T13:47:00.000Z</published><updated>2010-12-30T13:47:44.393Z</updated><title type="text">The Price of Beauty - Jessica Simpson meets Isabelle Caro</title><content type="html">&lt;iframe width="425" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/sfHlgGftVGY?fs=1" frameborder="0"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5431029257992479327-6832597134994195613?l=teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com/feeds/6832597134994195613/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5431029257992479327&amp;postID=6832597134994195613&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5431029257992479327/posts/default/6832597134994195613" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5431029257992479327/posts/default/6832597134994195613" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com/2010/12/price-of-beauty-jessica-simpson-meets.html" title="The Price of Beauty - Jessica Simpson meets Isabelle Caro" /><author><name>Helena Oliveira</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02756109276874502274</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/sfHlgGftVGY/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431029257992479327.post-38882424097824163</id><published>2010-11-14T12:56:00.001Z</published><updated>2010-11-14T12:58:10.853Z</updated><title type="text">The Recycling Rap</title><content type="html">&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; "&gt;&lt;h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; position: relative; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'lucida grande';"&gt;&lt;b&gt;It's the second time I post this poem... I simply love it! The first time I posted it, John Foster himself came to my blog and wrote a few words. It was a pleasure! So, here it is again :)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Help me bring this blog to life again!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; position: relative; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; position: relative; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; position: relative; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; "&gt;The Recycling Rap&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div class="post-header" style="line-height: 1.6; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); "&gt;&lt;div class="post-header-line-1"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-body entry-content" style="width: 498px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 15px; position: relative; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; "&gt;Listen to me children. Hear what I say.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; "&gt;We've got to start recycling. It's the only way&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; "&gt;To save this planet for future generations - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; "&gt;The name of the game is reclamation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; "&gt;You've got to start recycling. You know it makes sense.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; "&gt;You've got to start recycling. Stop sitting on the fence.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; "&gt;No more pussyfooting. No more claptrap.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; "&gt;Get yourself doing the recycling rap.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; "&gt;Come on and start recycling. Start today&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; "&gt;By saving old newspapers, not throwing them away,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; "&gt;Don't just take them and dump them on the tip,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; "&gt;Tie them in a bundle and put them in the skip.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; "&gt;Get collecting, protecting the future's up to you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; "&gt;Save all your old glass bottles and your jamjars too.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; "&gt;Take them to the bottle bank, then at the factory&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; "&gt;The glass can be recycled, saving energy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; "&gt;Don't chunk away that empty drink can.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; "&gt;Remember what I said. Start recycling, man.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; "&gt;Wash it, squash it, squeeze it, flat and thin.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; "&gt;Take it to the Save-A-Can and post it in.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; "&gt;Listen to me children. Hear what I say.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; "&gt;We've got to start recycling. It's the only way&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; "&gt;To save this planet for future generations - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; "&gt;The name of the game is reclamation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; "&gt;You've got to start recycling. You know it makes sense.&lt;br /&gt;You've got to start recycling. Stop sitting on the fence.&lt;br /&gt;No more pussyfooting. No more claptrap.&lt;br /&gt;Get yourself doing the recycling rap.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="right"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; "&gt;John Foster&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="right"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; "&gt;in &lt;em&gt;The Poetry Chest&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5431029257992479327-38882424097824163?l=teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com/feeds/38882424097824163/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5431029257992479327&amp;postID=38882424097824163&amp;isPopup=true" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5431029257992479327/posts/default/38882424097824163" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5431029257992479327/posts/default/38882424097824163" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com/2010/11/recycling-rap.html" title="The Recycling Rap" /><author><name>Helena Oliveira</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02756109276874502274</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431029257992479327.post-8462433406325208117</id><published>2010-11-13T12:34:00.001Z</published><updated>2010-11-13T12:34:52.125Z</updated><title type="text" /><content type="html">&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; 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font-weight: bold;"&gt;24º Congresso APPI&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;"Highlighting key skills in language learning"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;30 de Abril, 1 e 2 de Maio de 2010&lt;br /&gt;Centro Cultural Vila Flor - Guimarães&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mvaG5m457jE/SqmY7FexsII/AAAAAAAAAio/Wj_AW3aDEts/s1600-h/guimaraes-centro-cultural.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mvaG5m457jE/SqmY7FexsII/AAAAAAAAAio/Wj_AW3aDEts/s400/guimaraes-centro-cultural.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379999370721734786" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Key-note speaker confirmado: Prof. David Crystal&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;- Mais informações em Setembro!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5431029257992479327-5759042425226378071?l=teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com/feeds/5759042425226378071/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5431029257992479327&amp;postID=5759042425226378071&amp;isPopup=true" title="3 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5431029257992479327/posts/default/5759042425226378071" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5431029257992479327/posts/default/5759042425226378071" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com/2009/09/highlighting-key-skills-in-language.html" title="&quot;Highlighting key skills in language learning&quot;" /><author><name>Helena Oliveira</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02756109276874502274</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mvaG5m457jE/SqmY7FexsII/AAAAAAAAAio/Wj_AW3aDEts/s72-c/guimaraes-centro-cultural.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431029257992479327.post-5819584019721109376</id><published>2009-06-03T12:54:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2009-06-03T12:55:29.652+01:00</updated><title type="text">Professor de Inglês - Estágio em Mafra</title><content type="html">O centro de formação Wisdom Gate, em Mafra, procura professor estagiário para leccionar a disciplina de Inglês na modalidade de estágio comparticipado pelo IEFP.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Requisitos:&lt;br /&gt;- Com 6 ou menos meses de contribuições para a segurança social (jovem à procura de primeiro emprego);&lt;br /&gt;- Flexibilidade de horário;&lt;br /&gt;- Licenciatura nas seguintes áreas: Espanhol/Inglês; Francês/Inglês; Alemão/Inglês; Italiano/Inglês.&lt;br /&gt;- Jovem dinâmico, com espirito de grupo e forte vontade de aprender;&lt;br /&gt;- Forte sentido de responsabilidade e autonomia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oferece-se:&lt;br /&gt;- Remuneração mensal: 838,44€&lt;br /&gt;- Duração do estágio: 12 meses;&lt;br /&gt;- Início: 1 de Setembro de 2009;&lt;br /&gt;- 40 horas/semana;&lt;br /&gt;- Certificado de conclusão de estágio (IEFP);&lt;br /&gt;- Apoio total por parte dos orientadores;&lt;br /&gt;- Métodos de alta qualidade e reconhecidos internacionalmente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Envie-nos a sua candidatura para: rh.wisdomgate@gmail.com&lt;br /&gt;ou contacte-nos através dos seguintes números de telefone: 927 894 898/927 893 782/261 812 658&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read more: http://www.net-empregos.com/detalhe_anuncio_livre.asp?REF=743841#ixzz0HMpcEZZC&amp;B&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5431029257992479327-5819584019721109376?l=teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com/feeds/5819584019721109376/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5431029257992479327&amp;postID=5819584019721109376&amp;isPopup=true" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5431029257992479327/posts/default/5819584019721109376" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5431029257992479327/posts/default/5819584019721109376" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com/2009/06/professor-de-ingles-estagio-em-mafra.html" title="Professor de Inglês - Estágio em Mafra" /><author><name>Helena Oliveira</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02756109276874502274</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431029257992479327.post-5186268495020017980</id><published>2009-05-27T18:31:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2009-05-27T18:32:55.905+01:00</updated><title type="text">TEFL - 2nd International Conference on Teaching English as a Foreign Language - 20 &amp; 21 November 2009</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mvaG5m457jE/Sh15NUjEtNI/AAAAAAAAAig/u6ciw3jKcPQ/s1600-h/TEFL2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mvaG5m457jE/Sh15NUjEtNI/AAAAAAAAAig/u6ciw3jKcPQ/s400/TEFL2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340558002892354770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;source: http://www.fcsh.unl.pt/docentes/cceia/conferencias/tefl-2nd-international-conference-on-teaching-english-as-a-foreign-language&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5431029257992479327-5186268495020017980?l=teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com/feeds/5186268495020017980/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5431029257992479327&amp;postID=5186268495020017980&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5431029257992479327/posts/default/5186268495020017980" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5431029257992479327/posts/default/5186268495020017980" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com/2009/05/tefl-2nd-international-conference-on.html" title="TEFL - 2nd International Conference on Teaching English as a Foreign Language - 20 &amp; 21 November 2009" /><author><name>Helena Oliveira</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02756109276874502274</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mvaG5m457jE/Sh15NUjEtNI/AAAAAAAAAig/u6ciw3jKcPQ/s72-c/TEFL2.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431029257992479327.post-499990057480074962</id><published>2009-05-24T22:17:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2009-05-24T22:20:45.385+01:00</updated><title type="text">Another Blog</title><content type="html">Hi everyone,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;this is another blog I've created a few months ago. I haven't had much time to post new things in either of them, but I do hope to do that in the near future.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Take a look:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://teachingenglishinportugal.wordpress.com"&gt;Teaching English in Portugal II&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5431029257992479327-499990057480074962?l=teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com/feeds/499990057480074962/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5431029257992479327&amp;postID=499990057480074962&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5431029257992479327/posts/default/499990057480074962" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5431029257992479327/posts/default/499990057480074962" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com/2009/05/another-blog.html" title="Another Blog" /><author><name>Helena Oliveira</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02756109276874502274</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431029257992479327.post-6163038153735089461</id><published>2009-05-24T22:11:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2009-05-24T22:16:36.168+01:00</updated><title type="text">Master of Arts in Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mvaG5m457jE/Shm48k84HhI/AAAAAAAAAiY/Ko0xdQX3TdA/s1600-h/anuncio_Ensino_Ingles.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 339px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mvaG5m457jE/Shm48k84HhI/AAAAAAAAAiY/Ko0xdQX3TdA/s400/anuncio_Ensino_Ingles.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339502184075107858" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5431029257992479327-6163038153735089461?l=teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com/feeds/6163038153735089461/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5431029257992479327&amp;postID=6163038153735089461&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5431029257992479327/posts/default/6163038153735089461" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5431029257992479327/posts/default/6163038153735089461" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com/2009/05/master-of-arts-in-teaching-english-as.html" title="Master of Arts in Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language" /><author><name>Helena Oliveira</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02756109276874502274</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mvaG5m457jE/Shm48k84HhI/AAAAAAAAAiY/Ko0xdQX3TdA/s72-c/anuncio_Ensino_Ingles.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431029257992479327.post-7956174631310271957</id><published>2009-01-30T19:22:00.001Z</published><updated>2009-01-31T09:42:52.934Z</updated><title type="text">Freedom Writers</title><content type="html">There is more to teaching than grammar, vocabulary, skills... Teaching must be a passion and it must lead our students to a greater understanding of the world!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/lejN7Ulh10s&amp;hl=pt-br&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/lejN7Ulh10s&amp;hl=pt-br&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="355" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/m0PRB4YsXn4&amp;amp;rel=1"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/m0PRB4YsXn4&amp;amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From "The Teacher Man"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;The classroom is a place of high drama. You'll never know what you've done to, or for, the hundreds coming and going. You see them leaving the classroom: dreamy, flat, sneering, admiring, smiling, puzzled. After a few years you developed antennae. You can tell when you've reached them or alienated them. It's chemistry. It's psychology. It's animal instinct. You are with the kids and, as long as you want to be a teacher, there's no escape.Don't expect help from the people who have escaped the classroom, the higher-ups. They're busy going to lunch and thinking higher thoughts. It's you and the kids. So, there's the bell. See you later. Find what you love and do it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5431029257992479327-7956174631310271957?l=teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com/feeds/7956174631310271957/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5431029257992479327&amp;postID=7956174631310271957&amp;isPopup=true" title="8 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5431029257992479327/posts/default/7956174631310271957" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5431029257992479327/posts/default/7956174631310271957" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com/2008/02/freedom-writers.html" title="Freedom Writers" /><author><name>Helena Oliveira</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02756109276874502274</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431029257992479327.post-4895273593581105318</id><published>2009-01-10T20:56:00.002Z</published><updated>2009-01-10T21:05:53.390Z</updated><title type="text">The Vegetables Strike Back</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mvaG5m457jE/SWkNTeFz16I/AAAAAAAAAho/i9YBqQoJLDY/s1600-h/hobes.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 284px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mvaG5m457jE/SWkNTeFz16I/AAAAAAAAAho/i9YBqQoJLDY/s400/hobes.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289773865469466530" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Use this cartoon and the poem "The Vegetables Strike Back" by Steve Turner in &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;The Day I fell down the Toilet and Other Poems&lt;/span&gt;, Lion Children’s Books, 1997.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5431029257992479327-4895273593581105318?l=teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com/feeds/4895273593581105318/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5431029257992479327&amp;postID=4895273593581105318&amp;isPopup=true" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5431029257992479327/posts/default/4895273593581105318" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5431029257992479327/posts/default/4895273593581105318" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com/2009/01/vegetables-strike-back.html" title="The Vegetables Strike Back" /><author><name>Helena Oliveira</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02756109276874502274</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mvaG5m457jE/SWkNTeFz16I/AAAAAAAAAho/i9YBqQoJLDY/s72-c/hobes.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431029257992479327.post-5651651053074789417</id><published>2008-11-19T10:40:00.001Z</published><updated>2008-11-19T10:47:14.573Z</updated><title type="text">Carta de um Professor aos Directores da TSF e DN a propósito da entrevista de JOSÉ SÓCRATES</title><content type="html">&lt;span style=";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Ex.mo Sr. João Marcelino/Paulo Baldaia&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ontem entrei no carro e ouvi os últimos 15 minutos da entrevista ao nosso primeiro ministro, exactamente no momento em que estavam a falar de educação que era o que me interessava no momento. A custo, consegui ouvir até ao fim.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Envio-lhe o meu mais veemente lamento pela forma como a entrevista, ou o que lhe queiram chamar, foi conduzida porquanto foi permitido ao Sr. 1º ministro dizer o maior chorrilho de mentiras sem que alguma vez tivesse sido corrigido. Deixaram-no passar mais uma mensagem propagandística que peca pela  verdade tal como ele nos tem habituado a ouvir a começar pelo seu processo de habilitações literárias.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Os Srs. jornalistas TINHAM a OBRIGAÇÃO de se documentarem melhor para fazer uma entrevista dessas. Mais pareceu uma entrevista de "faz favor de dizer" com questões previamente combinadas porque os entrevistadores eram pessoas experientes e deviam saber bem o que lá estavam a fazer. Só pode ter sido.&lt;br /&gt;Sócrates teve a oportunidade de explicar a sua educação à sua maneira e o resto foi servido em bandeja de ouro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O meu nome é Francisco Teixeira Homem, sou professor na Escola Secundária Dr. Jaime Magalhães Lima em Aveiro, tenho 34 anos de serviço.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tenho ainda uma licenciatura de 5 anos que é verdadeira e rigorosa. Sou do tempo em que o estágio pedagógico era de 2 anos. Fiz 1 mestrado e a parte curricular de um 2º mestrado no tempo em que os mestrados eram 2 anos. Tirei o doutoramento no tempo em que eram de 5 anos. Os investimentos na minha carreira e profissão foram pagos por mim e pelo sacrifício da minha família. Progredi na carreira com o cumprimento rigoroso de todos os créditos e subi ao 8º escalão com provas públicas efectuadas em Coimbra nas instalações da&lt;br /&gt;Direcção Regional de Educação do Centro. Não progredi com benesses até chegar ao 10º escalão onde tenho a minha carreira congelada e a ganhar tanto como um licenciado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por acaso vou ser avaliado por uma professora que é do mesmo grupo que eu mas há casos de professores de História a avaliar os de Inglês, de Educação Física a avaliar os de Educação Visual ou Educação Especial, de Biologia a avaliar os de Matemática... enfim!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quando um professor destes vai assistir a uma aula dos outros (e tem de o fazer 2 vezes) está a ser justo por mais que o queira? Haverá honestidade neste processo?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Não me licenciei a um domingo com 26 das 31 cadeiras em falta dadas como equivalentes, nem com professores amigos ou reitores presos por falsificação de documentos, nem com a utilização de cartões do governo. A minha Universidade é pública, do Porto, e podem ser consultados todos os meus documentos. Não foi encerrada, como a UNI, só Deus sabe, VERDADEIRAMENTE porquê.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O Sr. JS mente quando diz que agora há o mérito de distinguir os professores excelentes dos outros. Uma pessoa cujo percurso académico cheio de falta de rigor, mérito e excelência não lhe oferece a mais pequena moralidade para pensar sequer nisso, quanto mais falar. Desculpe voltar a falar disto mas é uma VERDADE que anda a ser camuflada e continuamente escondida.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A criação INJUSTA do professor titular no ECD é a MAIOR FRAUDE que passou impune em Portugal. Os professores foram classificados APENAS pelos últimos 7 anos de profissão, não pelos conhecimentos mas pelos cargos exercidos. Imagina certamente o que eu com 34 anos de serviço deva ter prestado ao ensino como professor. Pois bem, 27 desses meus anos contaram ZERO. RIGOROSAMENTE... ZERO.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aqueles anos em que quando mais jovem tinha capacidade para fazer e vontade para tudo, contaram NADA. Não sei quantos anos de serviço tem o Sr. João Marcelino/Paulo Baldaia mas diga-me como se sentiria se a sua classificação fosse feita apenas com base nos últimos 7 anos, não pelos seus conhecimentos e capacidade mas APENAS pelas funções que prestou. Há professores belíssimos que foram prejudicados por terem querido ensinar. Há escolas onde ficaram titulares professores com 86 pontos enquanto outras escolas professores com&lt;br /&gt;130  pontos não o conseguiram ser.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;UMA VERGONHA que a imprensa nunca soube (ou nunca quis) denunciar. A escola hoje deixou de ENSINAR. O próprio ministério deixou de ser o Ministério da Educação e passou a ser o Ministério da Certificação. Faça esta experiência.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vá a uma escola e diga que se quer matricular para APRENDER. Para APRENDER!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Não há como nem onde. Até com o sistema de créditos já acabaram. Mandam-no para os EFAs ou para as Novas Oportunidades. Veja o que isso é. O que lá se aprende.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Em quantos MESES se pode fazer ao mesmo tempo o 7º, 8º e 9º ano e depois o 10º, 11º e 12º ano. Acabaram com o "Ad Hoc", agora há o "mais 23". Compare-os.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Agora, com a apresentação do currículo e a entrevista, um candidato ao ensino universitário fica logo com 60%. Os "trocos" ficam depois para um exame muito mais SIMPLIFICADO.O Sr. JS falou nos cursos profissionais.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vá a uma escola e veja o que é isso de cursos profissionais. A verdade. E já agora os CEFs. A pressão permanente para que os alunos passem sem saber apenas e só para uma avaliação estatística. As permanentes lamúrias da Sr.ª ministra nos custos de uma reprovação e no facilitismo em reprovar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Agora na avaliação dos professores é contabilizado o n.º de alunos reprovados numa vergonhosa e clara afronta à perda de independência. Que culpa tenho eu que no início do ano me tenha calhado uma turma mal-educada e pouco estudiosa? Que culpa tenho eu que um aluno abandone a escola porque quer ir trabalhar ou não gosta de estudar ainda que tudo tenha feito com os pais para que tal não aconteça? PORQUÊ isso se reflecte na avaliação?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Já alguma vez pediu a uma escola as fichas de avaliação? Não acredito, desculpe mas não acredito que alguma vez as tenha visto. É IMPOSSÍVEL que aquilo possa ser seguido, IMPOSSÍVEL. Se não as conhece procure ver algumas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Os professores o melhor é deixarem de dar aulas. A Cada escola tem as suas grelhas de avaliação. São 3 grelhas, qual delas a melhor, sempre elaboradas da forma mais incrível, injusta, desadequada, complexa, pouco credível e acima de tudo inexequível.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Isto não é uma brincadeira?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Os professores não têm família e direito ao tempo livre e lazer? JS falou igualmente no Inglês e na Educação Física das escolas primárias que já havia antes dele.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pergunte quanto ganham esses professores e compare com o que ganha uma empregada doméstica, sem qualquer desprestígio para as empregadas domésticas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sr. João Marcelino/Paulo Baldaia, peço-lhe desculpa se me excedi. Penso que não. Acredito que com algumas destas "dicas", futuras entrevistas suas ao sr. JS serão diferentes. A verdade é que andamos de tal forma a ser&lt;br /&gt;maltratados e enxovalhados com tanta MENTIRA que após o programa da TSF que é uma rádio que oiço sempre, senti necessidade de "desentupir".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;É estranho, muito estranho mesmo que a certas pessoas seja permitido fazer passar incolumemente certas mensagens. E o Sr. primeiro-ministro é uma delas. Usa e abusa. Este foi o direito à minha INDIGNAÇÃO.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Queira aceitar os meus mais respeitosos cumprimentos&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O professor Francisco Teixeira Homem&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5431029257992479327-5651651053074789417?l=teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com/feeds/5651651053074789417/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5431029257992479327&amp;postID=5651651053074789417&amp;isPopup=true" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5431029257992479327/posts/default/5651651053074789417" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5431029257992479327/posts/default/5651651053074789417" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com/2008/11/carta-de-um-professor-aos-directores-da.html" title="Carta de um Professor aos Directores da TSF e DN a propósito da entrevista de JOSÉ SÓCRATES" /><author><name>Helena Oliveira</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02756109276874502274</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431029257992479327.post-3112734735119677477</id><published>2008-11-19T10:37:00.001Z</published><updated>2008-11-19T10:49:37.522Z</updated><title type="text">Mais uma pérola de sabedoria...</title><content type="html">Colegas,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Suponho que todos se sintam sensibilizados por sentirem que, no passado Sábado, fizeram parte de “algo maior”, que fizeram parte da história…&lt;br /&gt;Pois na história, por maior e mais significativa que tenha sido a manifestação, é onde todos e cada um dos 120 000 irá ficar se, chegados às escolas, nada fizerem para mudar as coisas.&lt;br /&gt;Sei que muitos se sentiram desiludidos com as consequências práticas da primeira manifestação e que muitos temem a repetição do mesmo com esta segunda manifestação. Alguns sentem-se desiludidos, ou mesmo ultrajados, com as declarações da Sr.ª ministra da Educação na televisão…Seremos assim tão ingénuos que estávamos à espera que ela viesse às televisões pedir desculpa, dizer que se tinha enganado e que se iria empenhar, connosco, no combate aos verdadeiros males do nosso ensino?! Não me façam rir!&lt;br /&gt;Porque não há-de a ministra se sentir segura, se ela sabe que 90% dos professores que aos Sábados vêm gritar para as ruas chegam às escolas, na segunda-feira seguinte, e continuam a colaborar na política das aparências…&lt;br /&gt;Ela conta com o nosso medo, conta com a nossa inércia, conta com o nosso “seguidismo”…Não lhe interessa resolver nada do que está mal, interessa-lhe apenas a nossa colaboração. E ela sabe que a está a ter em centenas de escolas, as mesmas de onde vieram muitos dos 120 000. A esse medo chama-se CONIVÊNCIA!&lt;br /&gt;Sejamos honestos! Em causa não está a avaliação, mas TUDO o resto. Toda a política da aparência que está a conduzir o sistema de ensino público português para o mesmo caminho que o nosso famigerado sistema nacional de saúde.&lt;br /&gt;Quem, de entre nós, tendo um pouco de dinheiro, não prefere recorrer a uma clínica privada do que perder horas num centro de saúde ou num hospital público?! Pois o mesmo irá acontecer ao sistema de ensino público português, caso não nos revoltemos contra esta política que, perante as dificuldades, cede. &lt;br /&gt;No futuro, e o futuro é daqui a dois ou três anos, no sistema de ensino público ficarão apenas os que forem incapazes de fugir para o privado: professores e alunos.&lt;br /&gt;Os meninos estão a ter maus resultados a Matemática? Não faz mal, baixa-se o nível de exigência dos exames. Os meninos ficam retidos no final do ano? Não faz mal, inventam-se dezenas de “planos” e de “justificações” e o pessoal, só para não ter que preencher a papelada, continua a “engolir sapos” e a passar os meninos todos no final de cada ano. &lt;br /&gt;É necessário passar a imagem, para a opinião pública, que o governo está muito preocupado com os problemas do ensino? Inventa-se uma “avaliação burocrática de docentes” e a malta colabora, com medo, e vamos para casa todos contentes com o “Bom”…&lt;br /&gt;O sistema público de ensino está a ruir a cada ano e em vez de enfrentarmos os problemas de frente e assumir o que está mal, incluindo o que está errado dentro da classe docente, continuamos a colaborar com o “sistema”…Ou seja, o “Titanic” afunda-se, mas nós continuamos a dançar ao som da orquestra…&lt;br /&gt;Pois bem, se houver alguém que acredite que este sistema de avaliação vai melhorar o nosso sistema de ensino, que entregue os objectivos pessoais.&lt;br /&gt;Se houver alguém que acredita que os professores que se esforçam, que sempre se esforçaram, vão ser “premiados”, que entregue os objectivos pessoais.&lt;br /&gt;Se alguém acredita que os nossos colegas que sempre fizeram do ensino a sua “segunda profissão” e se gabam de usar indiscriminadamente os 102 irão ser penalizados, que entregue os objectivos pessoais.&lt;br /&gt;Se alguém acredita que este processo nos irá ajudar a melhorar os nossos métodos de ensino e a ser melhores professores, que entregue os objectivos pessoais.&lt;br /&gt;Se alguém acredita que este processo irá permitir detectar os nossos erros e corrigi-los, beneficiando indirectamente os nossos alunos, que entregue os objectivos pessoais.&lt;br /&gt;Mas NÃO ENTREGUEM OS OBJECTIVOS POR MEDO! Não cedam à chantagem do medo e às ameaças da ministra. Todos temos muito a perder, mas há coisas que não têm preço…Uma delas é a nossa dignidade profissional.&lt;br /&gt;Nós somos professores e, na nossa profissão, todos os dias somos confrontados com ameaças directas à nossa autoridade. Quando não temos mais argumentos para convencer os nossos alunos pela razão, o que é que fazemos?! Ameaçamos! É a última arma que resta, quando faltam mais argumentos…Sabemos bem como é!&lt;br /&gt;Pois bem, temos uma ministra que, há muito, desistiu de nos convencer pela razão, pois nós bem sabemos da hipocrisia desta pseudo-avaliação. Que lhe resta? A ameaça…Como não pode mandar os professores para a “rua” com uma falta disciplinar, ameaça-nos com a não progressão na carreira. E nós? Nós, pelos vistos, cedemos com um sorriso nos lábios…&lt;br /&gt;Seremos assim tão ingénuos que pensamos que, se alinharmos no “esquema” e entregarmos os objectivos, nada nos irá acontecer?!&lt;br /&gt;Seremos tão ingénuos ao ponto de pensar que, se alinharmos com o “sistema”, o nosso emprego estará assegurado para sempre?&lt;br /&gt;Será que as pessoas não compreenderam que os tempos mudaram e que já não há certezas no que toca a um emprego para toda a vida, nem mesmo para quem trabalha para o Estado?&lt;br /&gt;ACORDEM e olhem à vossa volta…Estamos a entrar numa das piores crises financeiras que o mundo ocidental já conheceu… Alguém acredita que o seu emprego estará seguro indefinidamente só por não contrariar o “chefe”?! Os tempos mudaram e não voltam atrás, nem mesmo para quem é funcionário público.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A escola de Silves está cheia de pessoas normais, não de super-heróis. As pessoas que estão a boicotar a avaliação na minha escola são pessoas honestas e cumpridoras da lei. Pagam impostos e não têm cadastro criminal. Não são loucas, nem irresponsáveis e, por isso, também têm medo. &lt;br /&gt;Estão habituadas a ensinar aos seus alunos e filhos a cumprir as leis. Mas sabem que antes de qualquer lei, está a lealdade e a rectidão perante as nossas mais profundas convicções.&lt;br /&gt;Os professores de Silves também têm medo das repercussões que este acto de resistência pode ter nas suas carreiras, sobretudo os corajosos avaliadores que arriscam, talvez, um processo disciplinar. De onde lhes vem a coragem? De saber que pior que ter medo de não cumprir esta avaliação, é o medo de olharmos para o espelho e termos vergonha de não termos defendido a nossa dignidade profissional e os nossos alunos.&lt;br /&gt;É disso que se trata, de defender a dignidade do nosso sistema de ensino. É daí que nos vem a força, das nossas convicções…Como poderíamos olhar de frente, olhos nos olhos, os nossos alunos se cedêssemos na luta pelos nossos ideais? &lt;br /&gt;A ministra ameaça-nos como “meninos mal comportados” e nós claudicamos? Em Silves, não!&lt;br /&gt;Não sigam o exemplo dos professores do Agrupamento Vertical de Escolas Dr. Garcia Domingues de Silves, sigam a vossa consciência. E se, perante ela, se sentirem bem em entregar os objectivos pessoais, entreguem-nos!&lt;br /&gt;Nós, perante o medo, continuamos a RESISTIR! E desde que o começámos a fazer que dormimos melhor e que temos um outro sorriso…Estamos bem com a nossa consciência e isso não tem preço.&lt;br /&gt;Desde que resisto, que sou MAIS FELIZ! Os meus alunos agradecem…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pedro Nuno Teixeira Santos, BI 10081573, professor QZP do grupo 230 no Agrupamento Vertical de Escolas Dr. Garcia Domingues (Silves)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(NOTA: se alguém me quiser instaurar um processo disciplinar na sequência deste texto, agradeço o envio de um e-mail e eu envio na resposta, e com agrado, o resto dos meus dados pessoais)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5431029257992479327-3112734735119677477?l=teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com/feeds/3112734735119677477/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5431029257992479327&amp;postID=3112734735119677477&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5431029257992479327/posts/default/3112734735119677477" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5431029257992479327/posts/default/3112734735119677477" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com/2008/11/mais-uma-prola-de-sabedoria.html" title="Mais uma pérola de sabedoria..." /><author><name>Helena Oliveira</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02756109276874502274</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431029257992479327.post-7560323476241893352</id><published>2008-10-27T15:48:00.001Z</published><updated>2008-10-27T15:48:55.202Z</updated><title type="text">5 Pumpkins :D</title><content type="html">&lt;embed src="http://www.teachertube.com/player/search/mediaplayer.swf" width="425" height="350" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="height=350&amp;amp;width=425&amp;amp;file=http://www.teachertube.com/flvideo/53753.flv&amp;amp;image=http://www.teachertube.com/thumb/53753.jpg&amp;amp;location=http://www.teachertube.com/player/search/mediaplayer.swf&amp;amp;logo=http://www.teachertube.com/images/greylogo.swf&amp;amp;searchlink=http://teachertube.com/search_result.php%3Fsearch_id%3D&amp;amp;frontcolor=0xffffff&amp;amp;backcolor=0x000000&amp;amp;lightcolor=0xFF0000&amp;amp;screencolor=0xffffff&amp;amp;autostart=false&amp;amp;volume=80&amp;amp;overstretch=fit&amp;amp;link=http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=110016a946a1f2b6d1f3&amp;amp;linkfromdisplay=true&amp;amp;recommendations=http://www.teachertube.com/embedplaylist.php?chid=55"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5431029257992479327-7560323476241893352?l=teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com/feeds/7560323476241893352/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5431029257992479327&amp;postID=7560323476241893352&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5431029257992479327/posts/default/7560323476241893352" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5431029257992479327/posts/default/7560323476241893352" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com/2008/10/5-pumpkins-d.html" title="5 Pumpkins :D" /><author><name>Helena Oliveira</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02756109276874502274</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431029257992479327.post-3474581581070559215</id><published>2008-10-27T15:24:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-10-27T15:25:22.929Z</updated><title type="text">Happy Halloween!!!!! 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:D" /><author><name>Helena Oliveira</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02756109276874502274</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431029257992479327.post-1094611783730658327</id><published>2008-10-08T18:56:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-10-08T18:58:45.119+01:00</updated><title type="text">Candidatura Financeira APPI 2008</title><content type="html">Até quando continuará o Ministério da Educação e este Governo a cortar na Educação e a cometer erros crassos? Eis mais um...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Caros Colegas:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O Centro de Formação da APPI – APPIforma - comunica que, no dia 17 de Setembro/2008, recebeu, do Programa Operacional Potencial Humano – POPH, os ofícios com as referências POPH Malhoa, 07197 e 07198, datados de 12/09/2008, notificando a APPI do indeferimento da candidatura financeira, por si apresentada no prazo legal.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Como fundamentação para o indeferimento, “A Autoridade de Gestão do POPH” refere, citamos:“O Projecto de Formação não inclui cursos dos Programas Nacionais e das áreas prioritárias, em conformidade com os Despachos de 20/03 e 08/04 de 2008 do SEE”.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Direcção da APPI não pode deixar de sublinhar que o prazo limite de apresentação das candidaturas financeiras foi o dia 14 de Março de 2008 e os despachos referidos, invocados na fundamentação, foram publicados após esta data, em 20 de Março e 8 de Abril.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Direcção lamenta que as regras tenham sido alteradas a meio do processo; que a candidatura financeira de Planos de Formação seja indeferida com base em áreas prioritárias definidas a posteriori e, sobretudo, que o Inglês, em particular, e as Línguas Estrangeiras, em geral, não sejam consideradas áreas prioritárias de formação.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O Plano de Formação previsto para 2008 continuará a ser realizado, embora com a comparticipação exclusiva dos Colegas formandos, de modo a dar resposta às necessidades reais dos professores, no âmbito da área específica de docência, conforme é exigido no Estatuto da Carreira Docente.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Direcção lamenta, verdadeiramente, e pede a compreensão dos Colegas.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="right"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Direcção de APPIforma&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="right"&gt;22 de Setembro de 2008&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="right"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="right"&gt;in: &lt;a href="http://www.appi.pt/appiforma/candfinanceira.htm"&gt;http://www.appi.pt/appiforma/candfinanceira.htm&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5431029257992479327-1094611783730658327?l=teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com/feeds/1094611783730658327/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5431029257992479327&amp;postID=1094611783730658327&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5431029257992479327/posts/default/1094611783730658327" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5431029257992479327/posts/default/1094611783730658327" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com/2008/10/candidatura-financeira-appi-2008.html" title="Candidatura Financeira APPI 2008" /><author><name>Helena Oliveira</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02756109276874502274</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431029257992479327.post-6773538179695752214</id><published>2008-09-11T00:02:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-09-11T00:02:42.446+01:00</updated><title type="text">SOS Professores Colocados</title><content type="html">&lt;embed src="http://rd.pftv.videos.sapo.pt/play?file=http://rd.pftv.videos.sapo.pt/3jnGLCZmhD82zYlwDpf7/mov/1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="322"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5431029257992479327-6773538179695752214?l=teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com/feeds/6773538179695752214/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5431029257992479327&amp;postID=6773538179695752214&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5431029257992479327/posts/default/6773538179695752214" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5431029257992479327/posts/default/6773538179695752214" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com/2008/09/sos-professores-colocados.html" title="SOS Professores Colocados" /><author><name>Helena Oliveira</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02756109276874502274</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431029257992479327.post-6866278370038269065</id><published>2008-07-27T17:47:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-11-13T07:57:27.581Z</updated><title type="text">Your Thoughts are Hungry for Words - Vocabulary Feeds</title><content type="html">Hello everyone,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;as I was googling for "vocabulary" I found this interesting post in &lt;a href="http://fceblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/vocabulary-feeds.html"&gt;http://fceblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/vocabulary-feeds.html&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hope you all find it useful :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Vocabulary is &lt;a href="http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=food%20for%20thought"&gt;food for thought&lt;/a&gt;. If your mind is well fed, then you will be able to frame your ideas in speaking and writing better. There is probably nothing as frustrating as to have a gap in your vocabulary. Those moments when you want to explain something in a foreign language and the words simply do not come. To enjoy becoming a speaker of a second language, we need to eat words well.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZKBsWXZvfLI/RyTGfVUyCqI/AAAAAAAAAN4/_g_Xrja5InA/s1600-h/vocabulary.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;It is important to vary the ways in which you try to incorporate new words. There is no best method to learn. Yet, if learning can be action, the practice becomes more effective and meaningful. Learning words is not about memorising. Not even remembering. Do you remember how you learnt every word you know? When you learn, you simply transform yourself.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Learning is a cycle. Learning vocabulary will require consulting dictionaries, exploring new contexts for a word in your readings on the Internet and finding examples. A bit of decontextualised -some mechanical or repetitive- practice may also help. One day you may surprise yourself using richer words in your writing. That's when a learning cycle ends giving way for another one to begin.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did you know your learning can also transform others?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Learn Free vocabulary &amp;amp; Give Free Rice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Learning is a powerful thing. The people involved in this initiative launched on the 7th October 2007 understand it well. Their mission is to help provide food for people in need while you learn.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;For each word you get right, we donate 10 grains of rice through the United Nations to help end world hunger.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.freerice.com/"&gt;http://www.freerice.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Click there and you will find an ongoing multiple choice test. It is challenging for both: advanced students and native speakers. What is so interesting about this site is that it shows an example of learning both ways. You learn by choosing and the machine learns with your clicks too:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FreeRice automatically adjusts to your level of vocabulary. It starts by giving you words at different levels of difficulty and then, based on how you do, assigns you an approximate starting level. You then determine a more exact level for yourself as you play. When you get a word wrong, you go to an easier level. When you get three words in a row right, you go to a harder level. This one-to-three ratio is best for keeping you at the “outer fringe” of your vocabulary, where learning can take place.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Click &lt;a href="http://www.freerice.com/faq.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for details on how playing the vocabulary game helps you and others.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;So let's play and feed ourselves!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5431029257992479327-6866278370038269065?l=teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com/feeds/6866278370038269065/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5431029257992479327&amp;postID=6866278370038269065&amp;isPopup=true" title="4 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5431029257992479327/posts/default/6866278370038269065" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5431029257992479327/posts/default/6866278370038269065" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com/2008/07/your-thoughts-are-hungry-for-words.html" title="Your Thoughts are Hungry for Words - Vocabulary Feeds" /><author><name>Helena Oliveira</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02756109276874502274</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431029257992479327.post-8726368392180575502</id><published>2008-07-25T22:34:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2008-07-27T18:56:52.737+01:00</updated><title type="text">Uma lição de vida...</title><content type="html">&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Dear friend,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;here is an article I found on plagiarism. It addresses your questions and yes, sometimes it is very difficult to establish a limit where 'a' begins and 'b' finishes. I always try to be as thorough as possible...Some rules aren't meant to be broken.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Citação ou Plágio?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="right"&gt;2006-11-05 &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="right"&gt;Por Maria Elvira Callapez&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="right"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="right"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="right"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="right"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;“When you steal from one author, it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research”. (Quando se rouba de um autor é plágio; quando se rouba de muitos é investigação)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Será mesmo assim? Ora, de acordo com as leis vigentes, toda a gente sabe que roubar é considerado um crime. E quando ouvimos falar de roubo, normalmente e de imediato, associamos esse gesto, a dinheiro, a bens materiais, a coisas palpáveis. Talvez não ocorra à grande maioria das pessoas que alguns também roubam pensamentos, ideias, opiniões, palavras, frases, factos, dados, resultados, números, tabelas e trabalho dos outros, sem dar o devido crédito aos autores. Quando isto acontece, estamos a cometer um roubo chamado plágio. Então, se plagiar é roubar, logo é um crime. E que tipo de crime, para além do roubo, é o plágio?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Antes de mais, é visto como uma fraude, uma atitude moral e eticamente condenável por parte de quem o pratica. Pela frequência com que vem ocorrendo, tem sido objecto de vários debates e publicações. Entre outros, títulos como,“Plagiarism: An ethical problem in the writing world”; “Plagiarism is worse than mere theft”; “Plagiarism: A Spreading Infection”; “The scourge of plagiarism”, ilustram, claramente, o sentimento que este assunto tem suscitado nos dias que correm. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Todavia, este não é um assunto de preocupação actual. As origens da palavra plágio remontam ao início do primeiro século, AD, e são atribuídas a Marcus Valerius Martialis, (Martial), conhecido pela sua poesia com carácter satírico, vulgo epigrama. Lê-se na fonte que o plágio, como um epíteto para o roubo da linguagem e das ideias de outro escritor, foi inventado pelo poeta romano Martial. Ao censurar Fidentinus por este recitar as suas palavras como se fossem dele próprio, Martial comparou-o à pior coisa que ele podia considerar – um ladrão de escravos, um plagiario”.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Portanto, a partir desta cena, nasce aquela que viria a ser uma das figuras mais censuradas por infringir os mais elementares códigos éticos e morais - o plagiador. Na sua forma mais simples, o que sabemos hoje é que um plagiador é um kidnapper, um raptor, que comete roubo intelectual, que escreve algo que de facto é pertença de outra pessoa, que, em suma viola a ética profissional. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Mas, segundo Randall, já a encicloplédia de Diderot, do século XVIII, oferece uma definição de plagiador semelhante às que maioritariamente vigoram nos dias de hoje. “Um plagiador é um homem que a todo o custo quer ser um autor e não tendo nem génio nem talento, copia não só frases, mas também páginas e passagens inteiras de outros autores e tem a má fé de não os citar; ou aquele que com pequenas mudanças e adição de pequenas frases apresenta a produção dos outros como algo que fosse imaginado ou inventado por ele próprio; ou ainda aquele que reclama para ele a honra da descoberta feita por outro”. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Por conseguinte, destas definições inferimos que estamos explicitamente perante um plágio intencional. Porém, temos consciência de que os nossos pensamentos, ideias, opiniões, linguagem, escrita, comportamentos, são influenciados por outros e por isso não raras vezes, escrevemos, de forma não intencional, ideias e pensamentos que já outros transmitiram e tornaram público, mas que nos parecem originais. Nesta situação não é fácil perceber e ter consciência se estamos a plagiar, na medida em que expomos, subconscientemente, a informação lida, experenciada, absorvida e enraízada nas nossas mentes. Logo, não será simples julgar tal actuação como ilegítima ou tomá-la como uma transgressão. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;O pior dos comportamentos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Pese embora a noção de que muito do trabalho intelectual que se desenvolve resulta e assenta nos conhecimentos de outros, como reage a academia quando confrontada com os seus pares que plagiam? Pois, entre os académicos, o plágio, é tido como o pior dos comportamentos, um delito, uma decepção. É uma decepção para todos os que leêm os textos roubados visto que o autor que plagia ganha crédito através das ideias que não são as suas, enganando assim os leitores, pelo menos de duas formas: por um lado, impede que eles contactem o original e por outro há a possibilidade de apresentar as ideias e as palavras originais tiradas do contexto, defraudando o sentido e o rigor da investigação original, isto é, daquela que foi usurpada.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Por isso, na academia, o plágio e a fabricação de resultados são nitidamente reconhecidos como formas de comportamento desviante da conduta científica. Richard Smith, antigo editor do British Medical Journal é muito violento para com o plagiador e manifesta por ele a sua desconfiança desta forma: “Where plagiarism is found, the author's previous publications must be examined. The evidence shows that an act of misconduct is usually part of a pattern of behaviour rather than an isolated incident”. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Ao longo dos tempos têm sido tornados públicos vários exemplos de escritores famosos e de alguns cientistas que cometem plágio e auto plágio, sendo este outra vertente de plágio que acontece quando alguém usa um trabalho seu que já foi publicado mas não lhe faz qualquer referência. E porque o plágio cresce, John Maddox, ex editor da Nature, pergunta “how can established academics, almost by definition not neuronally deficient, be so artless in their intellectual burglary?.” &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Sabendo-se que o plágio constitui um problema, que simboliza um comportamento impróprio, não ético, porque razão ocorre o plágio? Entre outros, factores e condicionalismos como pressão para publicar, falta de tempo, intenção de submeter o trabalho, simultaneamente, a várias publicações, ânsia de ganhar bolsas, prémios e reconhecimento, poderão estar associados “ao aumento da corrupção do empreendimento académico”. Para ganhar fama e nome rapidamente, ou promoção na carreira, alguns preferem escolher a via mais fácil de “cut-n-paste policy” que por sua vez leva inevitavelmente à conduta “plagiarize-n-publish”, do que impedir a humilhação a que ficam sujeitos e às vezes à expulsão dos seus postos. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Enfrentar o fenómeno&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;E porque o fenómeno plágio existe, só nos resta, então, enfrentá-lo e tentar evitá-lo. Como fazer? De acordo com Balaram, “educar a nova geração pode ser que seja a única vacina disponível para conter a propagação, disseminação do vírus do plágio”. Assim, para não se contagiar os estudantes, é importante que as escolas, as universidades, os professores, os ensinem a combater o plágio. É do conhecimento geral que alguns estudantes, muitas vezes, por exemplo, sob a pressão do cumprimento de prazos para a concretização das suas tarefas, entregam trabalhos totalmente copiados pois tiram partido da proliferação dos recursos electrónicos e da facilidade e rapidez com que acedem à internet, condições favoráveis à prática do plágio. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;O que lhes fazer? Simplesmente ensinar-lhes as estratégias e regras dos métodos de investigação bem como as técnicas de pesquisa e citação: porquê, quando e como citar e usar as fontes e referências. E devem ser ensinados da mesma forma e com a mesma dose de paciência com que são instruidos os professores iliteratos em matéria de computadores: muitas horas de instrução numa área em que apresentam deficiências. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Porque o plágio de trabalhos se tem espalhado, muitas universidades americanas têm feito circular, entre os estudantes e instituições, informações detalhadas sobre o que é o plágio e como evitá-lo. Papel fundamental tem sido atribuído às bibliotecas. Quem não se lembra de há bem poucos anos atrás, quando íamos à biblioteca recolher informação, do processo moroso de passar à mão as nossas consultas para o caderno? Agora, como nas bibliotecas aumenta o número de websites, recursos online e bases de dados, com apenas um clique pode aceder-se facilmente e de imediato à informação. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Mas constata-se que é necessário educar os utilizadores sobre o uso ético da informação e os bibliotecários são seguramente agentes propícios para “o ensino de métodos de citação bibliográfica e estratégias de como melhor evitar o plágio, especialmente de fontes da internet”. É o que se faz por exemplo na biblioteca principal (Doe Library) da Universidade da Califórnia, Berkeley. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;No seu website, é possível encontrar respostas às questões “Citing Your Sources - Why cite sources? How do you cite sources? How do you choose a style? Where do I find the most authoritative information about these styles? What is plagiarism? ” Imitemos então, deliberadamente, a politica das bibliotecas da UC Berkeley, mas sem plagiar! À escassez de ideias, mais vale imitar do que plagiar. Enquanto que a imitação é aceitável e por vezes elogiada, o plágio pode ser tido como moralmente odioso, como um pecado. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="right"&gt;Source: &lt;a href="http://www.cienciahoje.pt/index.php?oid=9593&amp;amp;op=all"&gt;http://www.cienciahoje.pt/index.php?oid=9593&amp;amp;op=all&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5431029257992479327-8726368392180575502?l=teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com/feeds/8726368392180575502/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5431029257992479327&amp;postID=8726368392180575502&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5431029257992479327/posts/default/8726368392180575502" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5431029257992479327/posts/default/8726368392180575502" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com/2008/07/uma-lio-de-vida.html" title="Uma lição de vida..." /><author><name>Helena Oliveira</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02756109276874502274</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431029257992479327.post-6339945935155297213</id><published>2008-07-20T16:03:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-11-13T07:57:27.886Z</updated><title type="text">Teaching</title><content type="html">&lt;div align="justify"&gt;When I was nine years old I decided I wanted to teach English. I hadn’t started learning English at school yet, but a friend of mine had and so I asked her a lot of words. I remember going down the stairs from our school and asking her how we said “carro” in English. I was still a child but every bone in me knew exactly what the future held. This is the school, Colégio da Rainha Santa Isabel in Coimbra.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225112705235584706" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mvaG5m457jE/SINUUlLyhsI/AAAAAAAAAWc/vfgaXVnKwqE/s400/2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Thirteen years later the dream came true and there I was. I was doing my teacher training and had my own classes. It felt like heaven! They were not the brightest students and their view of the world was limited to where they lived. As Eric Hawkins mentioned in one of books I read at university, they had a &lt;em&gt;parochial view of the world&lt;/em&gt; (which I so wanted to break down). I remember asking one of them what he wanted to be when he grew up and his delicious but naïve answer was “homem rico”, and I had this 16 year-old boy in the 7th grade who wanted to stop studying and start working (which he did but then gave up and returned to school). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;There was a lot to be taught, not only grammar, but something much more important. These students needed to understand more about the world that surrounded them and they needed me to build that bridge. Up to that moment I hadn’t experienced all that I had learnt in English Didactics and Methodology, but then it all started to make sense. Learning a foreign language is their opportunity to see the world from a different perspective, through different eyes and I was there to help them. In spite of the current state of affairs in education, I do believe in the power we, teachers, have in our hands, hearts and minds. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;As I said previously, it wasn’t easy at first. They talked more than they should and some of them didn’t even know how to make up a sentence in English. Now I think of this, I remember something I read in &lt;em&gt;Teacher Man,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;“You think you’ll walk into the classroom, stand a moment, wait for silence, watch while they open notebooks and click pens, tell them your name, write it on the board, proceed to teach. On your desk you have the English course of study provided by the school. You’ll teach spelling, vocabulary, grammar, reading comprehension, composition, literature. You can’t wait to get to the literature. You’ll have lively discussions about poems, plays, essays, novels, short stories. The hands of one hundred and seventy students will quiver in the air and they’ll call out, Mr. McCourt, me, me, I wanna say something. You hope they’ll want to say something. You don’t want them to sit gawking while you struggle to keep a lesson alive.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes I struggled, but I tried my best to make learning meaningful for them. There were so many moments in which I wanted them to say something but they just stared at me. They had something to say, they just didn’t know how to say it. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;As time went by we created a bond, something which my colleagues couldn’t because they were too busy yelling at their own students. They were too busy collecting the so-called expected answers, giving them no time to think of their own questions and beliefs. This wasn’t the sort of teacher I wanted to be. I realised that for me teaching had to be passionate and personal, or it wouldn’t make sense. My students were all that mattered and they still are.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Thank you sharing this precious moment with me :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5431029257992479327-6339945935155297213?l=teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com/feeds/6339945935155297213/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5431029257992479327&amp;postID=6339945935155297213&amp;isPopup=true" title="3 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5431029257992479327/posts/default/6339945935155297213" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5431029257992479327/posts/default/6339945935155297213" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com/2008/07/teaching.html" title="Teaching" /><author><name>Helena Oliveira</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02756109276874502274</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mvaG5m457jE/SINUUlLyhsI/AAAAAAAAAWc/vfgaXVnKwqE/s72-c/2.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431029257992479327.post-2245735898094534982</id><published>2008-07-11T12:02:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-07-11T12:02:16.437+01:00</updated><title type="text">If...</title><content type="html">&lt;iframe src="http://www.eslvideo.com/view_quiz_inframe.php?id=527" width="425" height="900" frameborder="0" scrolling="auto"&gt; IF &lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5431029257992479327-2245735898094534982?l=teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com/feeds/2245735898094534982/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5431029257992479327&amp;postID=2245735898094534982&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5431029257992479327/posts/default/2245735898094534982" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5431029257992479327/posts/default/2245735898094534982" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://teachingenglishinportugal.blogspot.com/2008/07/if.html" title="If..." /><author><name>Helena Oliveira</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02756109276874502274</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431029257992479327.post-4038142175084204949</id><published>2008-06-29T17:30:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T17:31:37.232+01:00</updated><title type="text">IWBs in the Secondary - Where is the Interaction?</title><content type="html">&lt;div style="width:425px;text-align:left" id="__ss_375592"&gt;&lt;object style="margin:0px" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=interaction2-1209340867519217-8"/&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/&gt;&lt;embed src="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=interaction2-1209340867519217-8" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div style="font-size:11px;font-family:tahoma,arial;height:26px;padding-top:2px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.slideshare.net/?src=embed"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/logo_embd.png" style="border:0px none;margin-bottom:-5px" alt="SlideShare"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.slideshare.net/jasondenys/interaction2?src=embed" title="View IWBs in the Secondary: Where is the Interaction? 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