Category Archives: Lesson observations

CPD= Exploitation?

Posted on 05/12/2007 by alexcase

I’ve been ruminating on for several years of how Continuing Professional Development like observations, workshops and being given responsibility for a supplementary file or two often start off seeming like an opportunity and then gradually come to seem like just … Continue reading →

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Richard Dawkins says you should take that promotion

Posted on 12/11/2007 by alexcase

As the token scientist in almost every TEFL school I have worked in, I have decided to move on from telling all your English Lit graduates how to work out percentages on your end of year grammar tests and move … Continue reading →

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How to make sure teachers can really teach

Posted on 03/11/2007 by alexcase

Just like any other business or any other part of your life, telling teachers what they should do is about as much use as telling a teenager to stop mooching about. Here’s how to make sure the teachers in your school are really teaching:

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What is a lesson plan? (metaphors for teaching)

Posted on 11/10/2007 by alexcase

A great question in the comments box of the TEFLtastic Link Up post below from Sandy of TEFLtrade fame, almost Japanese T Shirt-like in the zen stages of enlightenment it can lead you to- first it seems silly and you laugh, … Continue reading →

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X in the classroom

Posted on 19/06/2007 by alexcase

Teaching (college student) teenagers again despite my best efforts to avoid it, there is one factor in the classroom that stands out more than other kinds of classes and, subtly or sometimes not so subtly, affects the classroom dynamic of … Continue reading →

Posted in English for study abroad, IELTS, Lesson observations, Needs analysis, slang, Teaching shy students, Teaching teenagers, TEFL, TESOL | 20 Comments