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Drawing introductions
This post is intended to be part of the latest ESL/EFL/ELT Blog Carnival, which being hosted by Eva Buyuksimkesyan this time at her blog A Journey in TEFL. The theme this time is warmers and fillers...
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Unplugged tips: learner dictionaries
This is going to be a mini series of posts on some tips and tricks for people thinking of moving in an unplugged direction with their teaching. These will be things that you can use, both physical...
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On pets and sensing an opportunity
I currently spend my Wednesday mornings and afternoons with my Entry 2 students. It’s quite interesting, as I haven’t usually spent a college day with the same group of learners (apart from a three...
View ArticleCircling the square
There’s one concept I really like about taking an unplugged approach in my teaching: doing away with linearity. For one thing, going in a straight line from one position to another just isn’t very...
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My post-plan today
At the dogmeholics anonymous meeting… My name is Mike Harrison, and I didn’t have a plan today… No, I had no plan. Aaaah, you were just winging it, weren’t you, Mike? Isn’t that what dogmeticians do –...
View ArticleA question or two of #dogme; I respond to Adam
This is new for me: the first time that a comment on a post has directly led to the writing of another. If you read my last post, you’ll know that I favour an unplugged approach in the classroom,...
View ArticleMine, mine, mine
Two days ago, I was lucky enough to attend a DELTA input session about using dogme in the language classroom. Luke Meddings was the invited speaker at UCL, and for one and a half hours on a Thursday...
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Once with feeling
If there’s one thing I like about where I work, it’s that I have relative freedom to do what I want once I’m in the classroom; I’m not wedded to any coursebook or other material. This often results in...
View ArticleDo you dogme, or does dogme do you?
It’s late so this is a necessarily short one. I do, however, hope it’s a pertinent one. I’ve been reading the latest post over at Chia’s blog, where she and a colleague (her DOS!) have been running a...
View ArticleSome core tenets for teaching unplugged
This post has been written as part of a professional development project that is being run by Adam Beale at the school where he works in Spain, IH Madrid. You can follow posts from the project here:...
View ArticleDo more with less: Chaz Pugliese at IATEFL Slovenia
A brief summary of this plenary in Terme Topolšica touching on minimal approaches to teaching, classroom resources and creativity
View ArticleMy multiple identities in ELT
Thinking about what I do in ELT following the IATEFL Teacher Development SIG Web Carnival
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Drawing introductions
This post is intended to be part of the latest ESL/EFL/ELT Blog Carnival, which being hosted by Eva Buyuksimkesyan this time at her blog A Journey in TEFL. The theme this time is warmers and fillers...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Unplugged tips: learner dictionaries
This is going to be a mini series of posts on some tips and tricks for people thinking of moving in an unplugged direction with their teaching. These will be things that you can use, both physical...
View ArticleClik here to view.
On pets and sensing an opportunity
I currently spend my Wednesday mornings and afternoons with my Entry 2 students. It’s quite interesting, as I haven’t usually spent a college day with the same group of learners (apart from a three...
View ArticleCircling the square
There’s one concept I really like about taking an unplugged approach in my teaching: doing away with linearity. For one thing, going in a straight line from one position to another just isn’t very...
View ArticleClik here to view.
My post-plan today
At the dogmeholics anonymous meeting… My name is Mike Harrison, and I didn’t have a plan today… No, I had no plan. Aaaah, you were just winging it, weren’t you, Mike? Isn’t that what dogmeticians do –...
View ArticleA question or two of #dogme; I respond to Adam
This is new for me: the first time that a comment on a post has directly led to the writing of another. If you read my last post, you’ll know that I favour an unplugged approach in the classroom,...
View ArticleMine, mine, mine
Two days ago, I was lucky enough to attend a DELTA input session about using dogme in the language classroom. Luke Meddings was the invited speaker at UCL, and for one and a half hours on a Thursday...
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