Posts Tagged ‘Creativity’

As I haven’t said for a while, the real purpose of this blog isn’t pontificating on all things TEFL (not sure how I started doing that, maybe Wordpress is haunted by a malevolent spirit?) but to give links to my articles and worksheets. And here are some more:

15 more ways to bring lucky chances into your classroom and lesson planning

Yet another 15 ways of boosting your teaching confidence

And there is so much new stuff on my worksheet pages that I can’t even remember what it all is, but I seem to remember most of it is in my grammar games and worksheets section, mainly about reported speech, Present Perfect Continuous and modal verbs.

Might I also suggest New Stuff November 08 Part One, which was obviously written when Xmas was much further away as I actually got round to tracking down individual worksheets and putting links to them.

Finished reading the Experience of Language Teaching a week or two ago, and here are some of my favourite quotes:

on continuous enrollment

“like teaching on a moving bus, or in the middle of a railway station, with people coming and going all the time” pg 232

on working under a permanently temporary contract

“There’s very much feeling that… if you speak out in any way, even if it’s because you want to improve the lot of students, then you’re likely not to be employed the next month” pg 233

“Casually employed teachers tend to teach casually” pg 59

on games

“Our students are used to disciplining themselves to learn. They’re used to it, they expect it, and some of them actually believe that if they’re having fun they can’t possibly be learning anything” ‘one teacher’ pg 184

on things that work great in one class and then bomb in the next

“You can only do some things with some of your classes some of the time” pg 151 (more…)

I have to fly away from my Yahoo BB internet connection now, and I may be some time. So while I am gone from cyberspace, you all have a chance to read the over 200 articles I’ve written elsewhere- starting with this month’s supply:

15 easy ways to bring change into the classroom

15 ways of dealing with students who pause before they speak

15 ways of dealing with pre-experience Business English and ESP students

15 ways to boost your teaching and lesson planning creativity

15 places to start getting published

15 ways to correct spoken errors

15 ways to bring lucky chances into your classroom and lesson planning

Done already? Well, I’m sure you’ve all been good and read the entire list of articles etc in the September list further down this page already, so the extra homework for the keen this month will be having a look at:

TEFLtastic articles (reorganised a bit to have more links to articles elsewhere on the same topics)

and

TEFLtastic worksheets (ditto)

1. Put a metal plate by the side of your sofa

2. Hold a spoon in your left hand

 3. Lie on your sofa with your left hand draped over the plate (more…)