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Motivation Blog Challenge: The Ugly Truth
Teaching for diverse abilities is a huge challenge and, very often, we find ourselves retrofitting certain components of a course to cater for the needs of these different profiles....
Motivation Blog Challenge: Students are bored all the time?
Our students get bored easily, and this is one of the comments I keep hearing from my colleagues. I could offer some suggestions to overcome this conception. As our...
Motivation Blog Challenge: Messy Friday!
I think that the intrinsic motivation is extremely important, especially for 16 Week Advanced groups. I mediate several engaging activities, in which the students are fully responsible for selecting...
Challenges & Learning Together: MOTIVATION
Dear All, Heartfelt thanks to all our contributors. We received some daily teaching challenges that we meet in class in response to our “Challenges and Learning Together” blog post,...
A Letter to ScOLa Teachers from a Kahooter
Do you have difficulty convincing yourself that technology can really help learning not only as teacher but also as a learner? You think it will not have a positive long-term...
Challenges Faced & Solutions Offered: December 2014
In ScOLa CPD Blog we are aiming to identify challenges that we go through and collaboratively find solutions to these sharing our ideas. Therefore every month we are planning...
Icebreakers: What’s Your Favorite?
Do you feel stressed at your first lesson at the beginning of the academic year? Do you worry about how to introduce yourself and to create a friendly environment? Most...
Welcome to ScOLa Continuous Professional Development Website
As an extension of Teaching and Learning Development Unit at Özyeğin University School of Languages (ScOLa), this blog is a reflection of our ongoing love for teaching and learning....