We started a new CELTA course last Monday and I am currently swapping between this blog page and a Facebook Group that the trainees started off their own bat. I’m chatting with a couple of them there about their ideas for their next lessons. I am struck by the fact that such social networks are […]
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Welcome to Teacher Training Unplugged 2011
First of all, let me say sorry to those of you who have visited here over the last few months only to be rewarded with inactivity. This blog has been decidedly quiet since mid-year 2010 and there is nothing to do but apologise. In my defence, I suppose I could say that the following things […]
If James Cameron had gone to Harrogate…
There has been some talk in the Blogosphere of IATEFL 2010 being marked by a huge presence of pro-technology participation, with many sessions on Twitter, IWBs and Web 2.0. Lindsey Clandfield just came up with this brilliant mashup of the film Avatar and the curious counterpoint of pro-tech and Teaching Unplugged at the conference: (source: […]
Unplugging Day Two
So what does day two look like? Just to recap: on day one, the teachers have observed, listened and reflected; they have observed their tutors giving them feedback on the language they used when getting to know their colleagues, they have experienced being an absolute beginner (perhaps had their first Old English lesson) and they […]
Our position on texts
We do not believe it is inconsistent with Dogme principles for beginning teachers to plan a lesson around a live listening with traditional questions to check understanding, leading on to a structured conversation of some kind between the students, followed by language feedback. Lessons like this may have many similarities with listening lessons extracted from […]