Teacher Eduardo

Before the start of the MA in ELT I was clear on the fact the time management as well as activity management were key to being successful at a distance study program. As a full-time teacher I generally have several diverse activities in each of the weekdays such as class teaching, administrative work, research and lesson planning and also a bit of web design. Luckily, for the past year or so I have been working at being better at planning my activities and completing what I set out to do. Some weeks I am successful and complete everything and others there are a few things unfinished, but usually of minor importance. This experience proved of much value when I decided to start planning my month long activities and including the MA in there. And so here I explain how I plan my work and study time so I can complete all of my activities and not go crazy in the process. I have learned to see time management as a two part process. The first involves the broad and anticipated appointm

I was determined to start my master's degree this year, 2014, but I didn't expect that it would be at the beginning of the year. It all happened rather quickly but in just a few week's time, I was registering for this MA in ELT and was ready to start with my distance studies. The Beginning I got access to the platform on Thursday 13th but it was until the weekend that I could dedicate the needed time to go about the many options there are in the platform and also figure out how to have access to the assigned readings. Today has been the first official day in which I have focused on reading, added the first comment in the forum and have also completed my first activity. I am still not 100% on some of the aspects of the platform, especially finding the e-book to complete the topic readings, but, as with many things, it will all sort itself out with more practice. Background Experience I have taken distance courses in the past and also most of the BA in ELT was dis