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Don't Call Me Teacher: My First Lessons - Learning Curve
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Don't Call Me Teacher. Sunday, 15 April 2012. My First Lessons - Learning Curve. Summer being the peak time for holidays, I covered just about every class in the college over the next few months. It's probably just as well that I don't remember clearly what I taught, because I don't believe that much of it was very good. But here's some of what I learnt:. Because I will be able to see yet again how much I've learned in the interim. In the early period, I think I learned most from the bad times. It to...
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Don't Call Me Teacher: Receptive Skills - Going Beyond the Textbook
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Don't Call Me Teacher. Sunday, 1 April 2012. Receptive Skills - Going Beyond the Textbook. Part 2 of my teacher development session moves on from Communication Games (see previous post) to Receptive Skills, in particular the sub-skills that students may miss out on developing if you just 'teach the book.' Again, for experienced teachers this will not be earth-shattering material, but for newer teachers I hope it will be a useful recap, and maybe even give some new ideas. First of all, Listening. Is one i...
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Don't Call Me Teacher: ELTpics and Art
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Don't Call Me Teacher. Thursday, 26 April 2012. ELTpics has to be my favourite discovery this month, and like so much else that is influencing my teaching now, I heard about it through Twitter. It couldn't be simpler - you can contribute photos by tweeting them using the hashtag #eltpics, and they will be added to the ELTpics Flickr page. By one of the curators: @fionamau. Fiona Mauchline), @sandymillin. Sandy Millin) and @cgoodey. Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK. 27 April 2012 at 02:31. Discuss Tole...
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Don't Call Me Teacher: 3 violin teachers – and what they taught me about teaching
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Don't Call Me Teacher. Thursday, 26 July 2012. 3 violin teachers – and what they taught me about teaching. Since becoming a teacher, I’ve started to reflect more on the people who taught me at school, and what I can learn from their teaching techniques. The difficulty is that I’m not certain I can trust my recollections. I don’t wish to do an injustice to these teachers by blogging incomplete and partial recollections about what I think they did, or failed to do, in class. 8211; the beginner’s class.
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Don't Call Me Teacher: Blogs a-plenty
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Don't Call Me Teacher. Tuesday, 11 December 2012. It is probably obvious from the frequency of posting here that I am not a natural-born blogger. I have 5 post ideas (at least) for every one that ever ends up becoming a finely polished entry, and I am by far my own harshest critic. So it may come as a surprise that I have in fact blogged every week without fail since mid-September - just not here. At the beginning of this year I cautiously started an online course. These are all strictly personal, however.
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Don't Call Me Teacher: The Whys and Wherefores of Communication Games
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Don't Call Me Teacher. Friday, 30 March 2012. The Whys and Wherefores of Communication Games. I'm taking the opportunity now to expand my ideas a bit. Part 1 - Communication Game. Unchallenged, unmotivated students who are poorly prepared for using English in the real world, and may even end up complaining about our teaching style. "So and so's classes are fun, but I need to improve my English.". First, the Warmer. For the beginning of the term, to help a new class to gel. The activity above is helpful f...
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Don't Call Me Teacher: April 2012
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Don't Call Me Teacher. Thursday, 26 April 2012. ELTpics has to be my favourite discovery this month, and like so much else that is influencing my teaching now, I heard about it through Twitter. It couldn't be simpler - you can contribute photos by tweeting them using the hashtag #eltpics, and they will be added to the ELTpics Flickr page. By one of the curators: @fionamau. Fiona Mauchline), @sandymillin. Sandy Millin) and @cgoodey. Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK. Sunday, 15 April 2012. On a CELTA co...
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Don't Call Me Teacher: The Dictionary Question
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Don't Call Me Teacher. Monday, 2 April 2012. Should students be allowed to use dictionaries in class? Very pretty, but no way to learn English. Over-dependence on dictionaries frequently leads to problems. Students learn to distrust their own judgement and are reluctant to guess the meaning of unfamiliar words. They read at a slow pace, convinced that it is necessary to understand every word of a text in order to understand the text, and in consequence they do not learn whole-text reading skills. I think...
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Don't Call Me Teacher: July 2012
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Don't Call Me Teacher. Thursday, 26 July 2012. 3 violin teachers – and what they taught me about teaching. Since becoming a teacher, I’ve started to reflect more on the people who taught me at school, and what I can learn from their teaching techniques. The difficulty is that I’m not certain I can trust my recollections. I don’t wish to do an injustice to these teachers by blogging incomplete and partial recollections about what I think they did, or failed to do, in class. 8211; the beginner’s class.
