I believe\nthat teachers inspire their students when they are enthusiastic about their\nwork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I started teaching legal English 15 years ago, I was a fresher, although I had been teaching for another 15 years so far. I had to learn this complex variety of English myself and now I manage to prepare my students to sit (successfully) advanced level of legal English exams. 15 years ago I showed bravery and thanks to this I developed professionally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now I help\nmy students develop linguistically and help them prepare enter their\nprofessional careers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My recent\ngreatest achievement was creating software for language testing. Initially the\nsoftware was aimed at teachers and speeding up their work by saving the time\nteachers spend on grading tests. However, apart from the testing component, the\napps has also a collection of public exercises which I create pro bono.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Public\nexercises are available for free to anyone who has a link. Students can use\nthese exercises to revise and expand their knowledge of business and legal\nEnglish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since last\nsummer I have been running a OEAD (one exercise a day) project in which I\ncreate one public exercise a day (or almost every day). In this way, I\nencourage students to learn every day. The collection of public exercises comprises\nnow about 160 exercises and is still growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This project teaches me systematic work with which I am trying to infect my students. It develops our media competence and proves that sharing is caring. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It shows\nthe power of collaboration and how great value it constitutes. Collaboration \u2013\nbecause the software was created in cooperation with my husband, an IT\ndeveloper. Collaboration \u2013 also because other teachers can use my exercises for\ntheir purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My students\nlike the apps very much. My survey showed that over 90% of them had positive\nattitude to it. They appreciate innovations in the classroom and are aware that\nthey get free high quality specialist content which is really scarce online. <\/p>\n\n\n\n