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| My co-presenters during RSCON4 |
I had the great pleasure of presenting at the RSCON4 conference on the 13th of October. It was an online global event highlighting “wow” moments in teaching and learning, and the entire conference was held online. I’d like to thank all of the organisers for putting together such an amazing event, everyone who came, and my moderator Malu Sciamarelli. Continue reading “My Talk At RSCON4”
I wrote here about how I battled with a story given to me by my Portuguese teacher. If you haven’t read it, I suggest you read that first, or this post won’t make much sense.
Feedback, or Should I Say Correction?
So having expressed my displeasure at the difficulty of the story to my teacher, I was interested to see how he would react. I wasn’t too concerned about his response as while he may have flaws as a teacher, but he doesn’t seem to have too many as a human being, so I felt that he would deal with it in a positive way. Fortunately, I was correct in my assumption. Continue reading “Learner Diaries: Reading Woe & Writing Joy Part 2”
Continue reading “Learner Diaries: Reading Woe & Writing Joy”
This is a picture of my Portuguese homework, which I’m showing to you as a cautionary tale. If you give a text to your students and it has as much highlighted text in it as mine does, the chances are that they are not really reading the story. They are more likely to have their heads in the dictionary than they will be getting involved in the narrative, questioning the characters motivation or attempting to understand the author’s point of view, all things that fiction is supposed to provoke. When reading becomes solely about vocabulary acquisition, so many opportunities for … Continue reading Learner Diaries: Reading, Stories & Vocabulary.
Generally I’m not in favour of promoting products or companies in my teaching activities, unless I’m trying to engage my students in critically analysing a subject, for example advertisings effect on children. I’m going to make an exception here though because the Guardian is a news organisation that I think deserves any publicity it gets. I believe it through it’s pursuit of quality investigative journalism, it is actively trying to make the world a better place. In this series, I’m going to share some of the ideas that I get from its online content. Continue reading “Ideas from the Guardian: Experiences”
The Teacher James 