Going towards being a Professional Teacher

Teachers and Students’ Online Encounter A Critical Review of The Theory and Practice of Online Teaching and Learning: A guide for Academic Professionals Routledge Education Free Books. Taylor & Francis Group. New York. Pp 60. by Fernanda López and Myriam Tielve.             Taylor & Francis Group have brought together excerpts from top titles books written by experts concerning teaching online in The Theory and Practice of Online Teaching and Learning: A guide for Academic Professionals . The main objective of the book is to provide educators with tips and advice on issues which are at stake in online teaching.         Teaching Online - A Practical Guide is said to explain the basics of planning a new course online. It highlights the role of the teacher as a moderator conducting discussions among a group of students who need to be active participants in the online world and collabora...

Warwick, L. (2016). The use of assessment criteria in classroom speaking tasks. Research             Notes, 66, pp. 16-21. Cambridge: Cambridge English Language Assessment.             Retrieved from www.cambridgeenglish.org/images/368333-research-notes-66.pdf         The author, teacher and teacher trainer at Bell International College, exposes the results of an action research carried out with nine students from different nationalities, all of them males between 18 and 43 years old. The aim of the investigation was to reflect upon the tools students use to assess their speaking skills and to generate strategies for formative self-assessment. The research comprised two phases, in the first one the assessment rubric was presented to the students after the task while in the second one it was delivered before the activity. Both the teacher and the group of students completed the assessment forms. T...

    More than a Lecture Steve Jobs, who delivered the lecture in a degree celebration at the University of Stanford, was a CEO in Apple and Pixar Animation. In the video Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address from Stanford University’s Youtube channel, started his speech  revealing that he had never graduated from college. Therefore, Stanford's celebration was the nearer he had been to a similar event like that. The purpose of this paper is to summarize the three stories he included about his life in his speech. In his discourse, Jobs called the first story connecting the dots in which he discussed the reasons for having dropped college. His ungraduated biological mother decided to give him in adoption to graduated parents. When he started a course of studies in college, he did not see the value of attending boring lessons. Therefore, he dropped them and went through group tutorials during what he claimed as the hardest financial stage in his life. In ...