Best teaching blog posts

I’d like to share with readers the  posts I’ve read recently. They all carry insightful thoughts and creative ideas that I hope will be of great interest to teachers and educators.

• Would da Vinci learn in Today’s Classrooms?
  The habitudes that separate creative and genius minds from “the rest of us” and which are discouraged in our schools.
• Failure is not an option but it should be!
  Failure as part of the learning process.
• T is for text
  Using texts to teach grammar.- Very insight post and comments on how to use texts as the basis for grammar teaching.
• 10  teacher development tasks for web 2.0
  Nik’s interesting web 2.0  links for teachers.
• What connects TEFL and psychoanalysis? -Part 1: the obscene space
  An analogy between the classroom and psychoanalysis. The similarities between the psychoanalyst and the teacher on the one hand and the patient and the students on the other hand.