Saint Valentine's Day History for Kids

Happy New Year 2019

                        T&L warmest wishes for an incredible New Year!
                                                  And don't forget...

Wishes of a very Merry Christmas!

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

To all our friends, readers and visitors, 
the best wishes of a very MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Rosslyn Chapel,  Scotland

World Teachers' Day 2018

Credits: UNESCO

Overcrowded classrooms, inadequate teacher training, lack of professional development during their careers: all these factors have a negative effect on learning. World Teachers' Day, celebrated annually on 5 October, focuses this year on the right to education, which means the right to qualified teachers. On this occasion, several events are being organized at UNESCO Headquarters on 4 and 5 October.

Well-trained teachers are essential for quality education. However, teachers who have not received the required pedagogical training to teach are teaching students today. According to 2017 data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 85% of primary school teachers worldwide have received teacher training. However, this figure masks significant regional disparities. For example, in sub-Saharan Africa, only 64% of primary school teachers are trained. In South Asia, this rate reaches 71%.

This situation is even more worrisome as the lack of teacher qualifications is often combined with classroom overcrowding. Sub-Saharan Africa has a ratio of 38 pupils to one teacher in primary schools, compared to 35 in South Asia (Source: UIS). 

To know more click here and visit UNESCO.

Teaching & Learning is 7 years today!

Teaching & Learning was born seven years ago on a rainy afternoon, very different from the sunny hot one we enjoyed today! It doesn't seem so long ago, and yet so many things have changed...
We intended to give suggestions of ELT resources and Web 2.0 tools applied to English language teaching, gather some practical examples of students' work and discuss their relevance/success in class context, create an interaction tool with Students/ other Teachers and keep close to Steve Jobs' motto: “Stay hungry. Stay foolish.” as we believe work can be done with pleasure and it can be much better if we don’t forget about enjoying it and adding a pinch of foolishness!
More than 850 posts and 145000 hits later, we believe those objectives are being achieved.
T&L audience is growing every day, it comes mainly from the USA, the UK, Russia and Portugal, but also from the United Arab Emirates, China, Germany, Japan, Brazil, Guatemala, Philippines, Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand. 
THANK YOU for reading T&L, for supporting it and above all for being here! I would also like to thank all those who spend their precious time commenting and giving important feedback!

This whole experience is a pleasure for us, so we intend to keep on going, posting more about didactics, English, culture, students’ tasks, motivational and foolish things, too, of course! 

Credits: As Told By V

We hope to see you all around here a year from now… 

Seven years and counting… STAY HUNGRY. STAY FOOLISH. 

Let's celebrate... HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TEACHING & LEARNING!

Welcoming September!

Credits: Anna

Happy New Year 2018

T&L warmest wishes for an incredible New Year!
Never forget...

Have yourself a very merry Christmas!

"Those Christmas lights
Light up the street
Down where the sea and the city meet
May all your troubles soon be gone
Oh Christmas lights keep shining on"

To all our readers and visitors, the warmest wishes of a very 
MERRY CHRISTMAS, this year, every year!...

Teaching & Learning is 6 years old today!

Teaching & Learning was born six years ago on a rainy afternoon, just like today! It doesn't seem so long ago, and yet so many things have changed...
We intended to give suggestions of ELT resources and Web 2.0 tools applied to English language teaching, gather some practical examples of students' work and discuss their relevance/success in class context, create an interaction tool with Students/ other Teachers and keep close to Steve Jobs' motto: “Stay hungry. Stay foolish.” as we believe work can be done with pleasure and it can be much better if we don’t forget about enjoying it and adding a pinch of foolishness!
More than 740 posts and 130000 hits later, we believe those objectives are being achieved.
T&L audience is growing every day, it comes mainly from the USA, the UK, Russia and Portugal, but also from the United Arab Emirates, China, Germany, Japan, Brazil, Guatemala, Philippines, Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand. 
THANK YOU for reading T&L, for supporting it and above all for being here! I would also like to thank all those who spend their precious time commenting and giving important feedback!

This whole experience is a pleasure for us, so we intend to keep on going, posting more about Didactics, English, Culture, Students’ tasks and foolish things, too, of course! We hope to see you all around here a year from now… 

Six years and counting… STAY HUNGRY. STAY FOOLISH. 

Let's celebrate... HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TEACHING & LEARNING!

We LOVE Manchester

100 Years of Our Lady of Fátima Apparitions

Credits: Ana Figueiredo

Today is a very special day, 100 years ago, three shepherd children experienced the apparition of Our Lady, the Virgin Mary, at Fátima. The three children were Lúcia Santos and her cousins Jacinta and Francisco Marto. The apparitions at Fátima were officially declared worthy of belief by the Catholic Church. Popes Pius XII, John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul II and Benedict XVI voiced their acceptance of the supernatural origin of the Fátima events. John Paul II credited Our Lady of Fátima with saving his life following an assassination attempt on the Feast of Our Lady of Fátima, 1981. He donated the bullet that wounded him to the Roman Catholic sanctuary at Fátima, Portugal and it was placed in the crown of the Virgin's statue.

On May 13, 1917, Lúcia described seeing a lady "brighter than the sun, shedding rays of light clearer and stronger than a crystal goblet filled with the most sparkling water and pierced by the burning rays of the sun". While they had never spoken to anyone about the angel, Jacinta divulged her sightings to her family despite Lucia's admonition to keep this experience private. Her disbelieving mother told neighbors as a joke, and within a day the whole village knew. Further appearances were reported on June 13 and July 13. In these, the lady asked the children to do penance and Acts of Reparation and make personal sacrifices to save sinners. According to Lúcia's account, the lady also confided to the children three secrets, now known as the Three Secrets of Fátima.

Credits: Santuário de Fátima

Pope Francis is in Portugal for the centenary celebration of the Marian apparitions of Fátima, which wouldn’t be complete without the presence of the Pope as he is part of the message of Fátima. Francisco and Jacinta, two of the childrem who saw Our Lady, will be canonized today, during Pope Francis's mass at the Santuary.

To know more about Our Lady of Fátima and this special place, visit the page Santuário de Fátima.

Bênção das Velas (Blessing of Candles)
Credits: Santuário de Fátima

Fibromyalgia Awareness Day

For a dear Friend, who is an inspiration for everyone.

If you want to know more about Fibromyalgia, you can click here or here.

Wishing you a Blessed Easter

Teaching & Learning wishes you a Blessed  and Joyful Easter!

Happy New Year 2017!

May the New Year bring all the health, happiness and light we need...

T&L warmest wishes for a wonderful year of 2017!

2016 - The Year in Search

LOVE IS OUT THERE. Search on!

Portugal Crowned Euro 2016 Champions

Happy Easter!

To all our Friends, Colleagues and Followers...

Happy New Year!

May the New Year bring all the health, happiness and light we need...

T&L wishes you a very happy 2016!

A Very Merry Christmas!

"Those Christmas lights
Light up the street
Down where the sea and the city meet
May all your troubles soon be gone
Oh Christmas lights keep shining on"

To all our friends, readers and visitors, the warmest wishes of a very MERRY CHRISTMAS, this year, every year!...

October - Breast Cancer Awareness Month