The advantages and disadvantages of blind observations
Category: Teacher Training
Topic: Learning and Teaching
What are the advantages and disadvantages of "blind observation"- when someone checks everything but the lesson itself?
Drilling - Judicious Use of Brute Force in the ESL Classroom
Category: Teacher Training
Topic: Learning and Teaching
How to use drilling when presenting or practicing new language, when preparing for an impending exam or to hammer out bad habits (including choral drills, interactive drills, substitution drills, transformation drills and drilling using flash cards)
The advantages and disadvantages of peer observations
Category: Teacher Training
Topic: Learning and Teaching
What are the advantages and disadvantages of peer observations?
Setting up a TEFL certificate course
Category: Teacher Training
Topic: Learning and Teaching
Personal experiences in setting up a TEFL Certificate course
Teacher Training -Grammar Based PPP
Category: Teacher Training
Topic: Learning and Teaching
How to prepare an English conversation lesson for a holistic, structural, four-skills syllabus: an article for new teachers or those unfamiliar with grammar-based syllabus or the PPP model of lesson planning (Present, Practice, Produce).
How to break into teacher training
Category: Teacher Training
Topic: Learning and Teaching
Some tips on moving into teacher training
Realia
Category: Teacher Training
Topic: Learning and Teaching
How and when to use realia, which consists of actual objects or items or facsimiles thereof, which are used in the classroom to illustrate and teach vocabulary or to serve as an aid to facilitate language acquisition and production.
A reflection on lesson planning for young learners
Category: Teacher Training
Topic: Learning and Teaching
Some colleagues had asked me for some tips on teaching elementary school children English as a Foreign Language. Here's what I said.