Chuck Sandy and Curtis Kelly

Hi Chuck and Curtis..I hope you share your best teaching motivation in TEFLIN...I'll listen to you

That's great Yuyu! Only (I) Chuck is going to be at TEFLIN though. Hope I won't disappoint you ^^

@Kristine - same bad news here in Michigan. : (

@Kristine - I'm really interested to your smartboard... but here in my village... it's impossible to get it...

Hello Ira and welcome here! It's great to have you with us. Could you tell us more about your teaching situation? How old are your students and what is their level? Also, what do you mean by "fluently" ? I ask because we find that when goals are achievable students are much more likely to stay actively motivated than when goals are vague and ... See Moreperhaps unreachable. We usually find that a goal such as "I want my students to be able to do X with English" or " by the end of the month students will be able to do Y in English" a more effective way of doing things than aiming towards overall fluency. What do you think?

Welcome Sopardi. We're glad you here. As for your question about how to join us: you just did^^ Now tell us about your teaching life and what you find most challenging about it. We'd all love to know.

We don't have a program, though: we're just a big group of teachers discussing things and working to make things better: one school, one class, one student at a time. It's as simple and complex as that.

Sara is right, plus No Child Left Behind (or more accurately, No Teacher Left Standing) has created a nightmare of testing. We are testing so many days per year now that we have much less time to teach. NCLB has taken the fun out of learning AND teaching.

As much as it may be true, its a cop out to say that public school itself is fundamentally flawed in its design and doctrine. Each teacher is responsible for making the changes they can to improve their learning environment despite the limitations. Dont wait for others to make changes. Lead the way and others will follow.

@ Sammy : even playing games, I am sure your kid learn something like the strategy or logic. I know there are lot of software learning through games. So you need to pick one and play together with him

Thank you very much, Maria... I'll try to do it.. :)

That's so good to hear and I hope you shared that thought with Grammarman Hero! Studying is always best when it's so much fun you forget you're studying ^^ Good on ya Libert and of course you too Grammarman Hero!

Find Grammarman here!

http://www.grammarmancomic.com/

@Leonie Overbeek I agree that repitition is a big part of learning by video games. But it goes much deeper than that. These games perform at almost every cognitive level including affective and moral. Check out: http://wp.me/ptcfd-J

If you'd like to learn more about Jeremy's Heroes and get involved, click here:

http://www.jeremysheroes.com/mission.html

vote for her.....

Thanks. Adaptable, too, for all the other occasions it could be used during the year.

we hope so too ^^ Thanks for being here Kimberly. Tell us about your teaching life. We'd all enjoy hearing about it. Keep us posted please

We're very happy you found us here Muji! Tell us more about your teaching life and feel free to ask about whatever's on your mind. One of us (meaning the thousands of us) will surely answer ^^

Thanks for reminding us of this Ms Octavia. I'd also like to wish all our teacher friends in Indonesia a Happy Teacher's Day and thank you all for all you do ... and for being a part of this group. We're thankful for you

Maria, it's very pleasing that you've reminded us all about this. It rings me a bell to ss & fellow teachers at school in Medan-North Sumatra, where I previously worked. During Teacher's Day there would be no classes & students would decorate their respective form teacher's classroom as well as making various tasty cake, cookies & soft drinks ... See Moreavailable for free for those visiting their classrooms. When their classroom became the most visited of all, they would be very proud of it. And for that, they would go to any length in order to become 'the most visited class'. They would provide any other free service like massaging male teachers' shoulders. If you get carried away with tasty cake they provide, the teacher's day would change to become weight gaining day, hahaha...