Watching Young Learners at Work: From Practice to Principle
This post is based on three activities on video with a young class in their first year of English videotaped as part of a training project for a course on […]
Thinking about Discipline – Part 3
Some Classic Mistakes In my first two posts in this series on Discipline, I mentioned some of the causes of undisciplined behaviour and a few proactive steps which I believe will help in creating a classroom atmosphere which promotes disciplined behaviour. In this post, the third post in this series on discipline, I would […]
Thinking about Discipline – Part 2
In the first blog post of this series on discipline, I looked at some of the causes of unruly behaviour in the classroom and got started on the path of what teachers can do proactively! I think that one of the best quotes I always remember, is one by my […]
How to make things fall apart – A behaviour model for creating incompetence
This short post includes my notes from a presentation I did some years ago at a conference for Foreign Language School Owners in Greece where I was specifically asked to present a workshop on good classroom management. At that time, I had been training a group of directors of studies […]
What kind of teacher are you? Are you in your students' "Hall of Fame"?
<![CDATA[The interest in the qualities of good teachers is not new. This post includes some thoughts on a study I conducted a few years ago with two groups of different […]
How to make things fall apart – A behaviour model for creating incompetence
This short post includes my notes from a presentation I did some years ago at a local conference where I was specifically asked to present a workshop on good classroom management. At that time, I had been training a group of directors of studies and had used Gilbert’s (1978) excellent […]