About me
Hi! My name is Sandra Mendonça (xani). I'm a teacher of English in Angra do Heroísmo, in the Azores, where I've been teaching for 16 years. Apart from teaching children, I was coordinator of the Department of Languages in my school, where I created and developed many projects such as an English Club with activities for children, a Spelling Contest that presently involves the other 5 schools in our island and an English Resource Center in the web page of our school... I was also a teacher trainer from 2008 to 2013.
I've always enjoyed teaching, creating new things and sharing my work... I started sharing my work at school with my fellow teachers and afterwards with teachers from all over the world through ESLprintables (ESLprintables profile HERE), a great site where I learnt a lot and got the motivation to create my first site (with another teacher of English) called ESLchallenge. A few years later, I decided to embrace a new challenge, by creating the site Teach English Step By Step... It's a new "home", with a different name, but the spirit remains the same: the challenge of making teaching FUN and easier for teachers all over the world! This was, and still is, my purpose... what inspired me and led me to the creation of the cute little globe, which you can still find in all my resources and represents ESL teaching without frontiers.
Working with students from the 1st to the 6th grade, without having a course book to support my work with the first 4 levels, led me to create my own course books, by following the curriculum guide lines in use in my country. These resources are the result of several months of hard work, but I feel happy for being able to offer my students a wide range of enrichment activities that successfully engaged them in learning English.
My page offers a wide variety of original resources (including clipart), such as worksheets, flashcards, board games, bingo games, dominoes, PowerPoint games, picture dictionaries, memory games... All the resources are organized in different units and allow teachers to diversify the work with their students.
I hope you enjoy them!
Sandra Mendonça
I've always enjoyed teaching, creating new things and sharing my work... I started sharing my work at school with my fellow teachers and afterwards with teachers from all over the world through ESLprintables (ESLprintables profile HERE), a great site where I learnt a lot and got the motivation to create my first site (with another teacher of English) called ESLchallenge. A few years later, I decided to embrace a new challenge, by creating the site Teach English Step By Step... It's a new "home", with a different name, but the spirit remains the same: the challenge of making teaching FUN and easier for teachers all over the world! This was, and still is, my purpose... what inspired me and led me to the creation of the cute little globe, which you can still find in all my resources and represents ESL teaching without frontiers.
Working with students from the 1st to the 6th grade, without having a course book to support my work with the first 4 levels, led me to create my own course books, by following the curriculum guide lines in use in my country. These resources are the result of several months of hard work, but I feel happy for being able to offer my students a wide range of enrichment activities that successfully engaged them in learning English.
My page offers a wide variety of original resources (including clipart), such as worksheets, flashcards, board games, bingo games, dominoes, PowerPoint games, picture dictionaries, memory games... All the resources are organized in different units and allow teachers to diversify the work with their students.
I hope you enjoy them!
Sandra Mendonça
