Marisa Constantinides – TEFL Matters
Language Teaching, Teacher Education & New Technologies
This is a page listing posts I have been invited to write for friends and colleagues. Writing for someone else’s blog is highly recommended and, in my case, almost worked as a mentoring activity, since both of my hostesses are very experienced and very well known bloggers, each in her own field.
I am very thankful for these invitations and I thought it would be a good idea to express my thanks to my hostesses and to say how much I enjoyed writing for them and how appreciative I am for letting me ‘steal’ their limelight – not just for the lifespan of a blogpost!
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November 2009
How to Become a Teacher Educator
This was my first guest blog post for Karenne Sylvester’s blog Kalinago English. Karenne was wonderful in encouraging me to write this post ! The response and comments I got back from this post were both heartwarming as well as food for further thought.
This post was nominated for the category of “Most influential post” in the Edublogs Awards 2009, so I am doubly pleased!
Kalinagoenglish is one of the blogs on my highly recommended list. Karenne Sylvester is an experienced and passionate blogger and her writing style is immediate and expressive. She is also a very experienced teacher of Business English and teacher trainer and many of her posts offer insights into her teaching and materials design.
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February 2010
Making books with Children
My second guest blog post appeared in a blog with a completely different focus – preschool education! In this post, I talked about book projects, making books of various types with your young classes, books of stories, books of poems and more, both in the classroom with conventional materials as well as ideas for some digital storybooks.
Deborah Stewarts’ blog, TEACH PRESCHOOL must be the joy of the primary and pre-primary teacher, whether teaching English at school or as a second language, her blog (as well as her other blog Little Fingers that Play) are highly recommended reading for teachers of young learners.
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October 2011
Marisa Constantinides Reflects on the 1st year of #ELTchat
#ELTchat, a popular Twitter discussion group and hashtag, just celebrated its first birthday. Organizer Marisa Constantinides reflects on the first year of using twitter as a virtual staffroom for ELT related discussions.
Interview by Tara Benwell
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One Comment to “Guest Posts”
Dear Mrs Constantinides,
thank you for all the input in Teaching English.
I especially enjoyed your article about Reading Comprehension. The way language istitutes work is really not the apropriate way to make students understand a text without translating it.
I felt relieved since I don’t agree with thranslation into the mother tongue and I have been struggling not to practice it.
Would you be kind enough to explain how the game with the Past Simple and Present Perfect works as well as the one with the Conditionals?
Thanking you in advance
Sincerely yours
Despina Kipourou