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Letter From Nashville — Promoting the Idea that Great Teaching is Possible — Exit Tickets in Japanese EFL? — Part 6
How do you close the lesson in such a way so as to confirm what has been learned? This is what Exit Tickets are about. The priciple is…
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Activity Module: Teaching Gerunds and Infinitives
The lesson aims to introduce and practice infinitives and gerunds by introducing common phrasal verb and other common collocations.
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Letter From Nashville — Promoting the Idea that Great Teaching is Possible — 100% in Japanese EFL? — Part 5
In observing foreign teachers in Japanese schools, one of the things that I harp on is be jealous of the students’ attention. Especially if you are alone in…
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Letter from Nashville — Promoting the Idea that Great Teaching is Possible — Teaching like a Champion at LEAD — Part 4
LEAD Public Schools deserves more explicit and unequivocal praise than I have been offering. In the previous 3 posts, I was focusing on the idea of Exalting the Teaching Profession.…
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Letter from Nashville: Exalting the Teaching Profession — “Right Curriculum” — Part 3
Curriculum is not ultimately what makes the class. It is the intersection between the teacher and the student that makes the class. Placing curriculum first breaks that intersection.
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Letter from Nashville: Exalting the Teaching Profession — Systems — Part 2
Systems need to have built into them the mechanisms by which they can evolve in response to the naturally occurring stresses of a learning community. Facilitating that evolution…
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