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Encouraging reading for pleasure
Encouraging reading for pleasure
I think we all know the importance of reading and the difference it can make in educational performance. Parents are encouraged to read to their children from as early an age as possible. In the UK all babies can claim a pack from Bookstart (https://www.booktrust.org.uk/what-we-do/programmes-and-campaigns/bookstart/) which offers an amazing service. I’m lucky that both my children love books…
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The Novella | Why it’s a great extensive reading resource for English Language Students | OUP — Oxford University Press The benefits of extensive reading for learners of English have been well documented, and there are some informative articles easily discoverable on this blog.
Developing courses under restrictions
Developing courses under restrictions
Since the start of the new term, I keep meeting my former students in the corridor and almost all of them are saying “It’s too hard”, “There are so many assessments” or “It’s so hard compared to last term”. Then I’ll enter my office and tutors will say “Did you teach so and so last term? They’re always on their phone/not listening/ not completing home tasks…”. The list goes on. Generally the…
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How children speak. Do they? – Michael Rosen I've just read this article by Michael Rosen and I can't agree more with what he says.
Keeping up with the Jones'
Keeping up with the Jones’
It’s been a while since I’ve been able to write a post, what with one thing and another. I have been thinking about what to write and have mentally had about 15 ideas – the trouble is I don’t write them down, so when I actually get to sit down, my mind is blank.
One of the themes I’ve had in my mind (for about a year now!), is how can you keep up with all the new developments in teaching and…
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Encouraging curiosity
Ramsey Musallam: 3 rules to spark learning
http://www.ted.com/talks/ramsey_musallam_3_rules_to_spark_learning?utm_content=awesm-inlinelinkcreator&utm_campaign=null&utm_source=facebook.com&awesm=on.ted.com_pzUw&utm_medium=on.ted.com-facebook-share
While this talk uses chemistry teaching, I feel that it is valid for all kinds of teaching, including languages. Engaging students in learning and the…
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Planning - end of term review
Planning – end of term review
In the lead up to the term I’ve just completed, I’d participated in a webinar which awoke an interest in reflecting on how I plan lessons.
I decided to use the questions below to analyse the way that I plan.
What do I take into consideration?
Why do I decide on certain activities and others?
Do I use certain activities too frequently?
Why do I change activities?
What happens in the classroom?
Wh…
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eBeam - the students' perspective
eBeam – the students’ perspective
At the end of the eBeam trial I asked students to (anonymously) write down what they thought of it.
Here are their responses (with permission):
“It’s not really neccessary, we can use it sometimes, but not each course. Sometimes it doesn’t work. We can use another way to activate classroom atmosphere. Maybe weekly we can use it.”
“It’s not really useful and nessary because that electronic pen…
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Unplanned planning
The research into my own planning process has been of to an interesting start! I was hoping to be comparing the process I’ve been going through with the responses I’ve had about how teachers plan this week, but hey, best laid plans and all that!
The course that I was scheduled to teach has now been cancelled (students couldn’t get visas in time), so all that initial planning is out the window.…
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Lesson planning
A few weeks ago I participated in a webinar on lesson planning (Perspectives of lesson planning. John Huges. Oxford University Press), introduced through a blog post of the same name (http://oupeltglobalblog.com/tag/webinar/). It spurred me into thinking about how I plan my lessons and what I take into consideration when planning. It’s not really something I’ve thought about for a very long time…
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Language acquisition
As a linguist interested in first and second language acquisition, I’m in a very privileged position of bringing up a child in a bilingual environment. I’ve been listening to the language acquisition with great interest (I should really note down more examples though). I only wish that I were able to record more of the speech and write a PhD on it.
I’ve noticed that the little one seems to…
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Using eBeam tools
It can be gleaned from my previous eBeam post that eBeam didn’t work as I had hoped it to as a whiteboard, but I thought it wasn’t too big a deal (I’ve managed without whiteboards for years) because I could use it to enhance teaching (and learning) in other ways. And so I set out to experiment.
Given that I teach a substantial number of low-level EAP students and consequently use a lot of…
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Using eBeam as a whiteboard
Using eBeam as a whiteboard
Using eBeam as a whiteboard was one of the eBeam features that I was most excited about (yes – I should get out more!). Most teachers, especially those in EAP using university teaching rooms, have at some point been in a projector only classroom. Last term, I had such a classroom, well there was a white board, but I had to literally (and I do mean literally) climb over the students to get to it.…
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eBeam me up scotty 1
eBeam me up scotty 1
At the beginning of this teaching term I was asked to trial the eBeam for the college I teach at. I hadn’t heard of eBeam before, so the first thing I did was google it.
What is eBeam?
What I saw (and what can be seen in the YouTube clip) seemed interesting and quite straight forward, but I wasn’t majorly convinced that it would…
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Demotivating feedback
Quite recently I was approached about writing short stories for German KS3 (I had applied for another project, but I was asked to work on this one). I was really excited about the project. I relished the challenge of writing materials in German (not something I’ve previously done) and being creative. I thought it would also do my German the power of good. I miss speaking it and am not using it as…
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Where am I?
I returned to work from maternity about a year ago and I still feel a little unsteady on my feet: not so much in being in the classroom or the subject knowledge side, rather in a kind of ‘where am I’? feeling.
I am in a very lucky position because I teach two days a week and work as an editor and materials writer for two days and am able to spend 3 days with my son. I’m employed (rather than…
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Long briefs, short briefs: What's your favourite?
Long briefs or short briefs? What's your favourite?
Writing a brief
The Oxford online dictionary defines brief as being
“concise in expression;using few words”
(http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/brief). I interpret this, in relation to writing briefs, as meaning that the brief should contain the relevant information for a project, or writing assignment and not much else. So why is it that writer’s brief are often pages long?
– I…
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