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The Devil’s in the Details – Small Musts.

Thursday, November 5, 2009

I just spent a day evaluating Korean teachers in their classrooms, as part of the TEE (Teaching English in English) program. I’m going to keep away from that topic – it’s still too raw, so to speak. However, I did take lots of notes and some things kept repeating themselves. Mostly small things that teachers [...]

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The 7 “Deadly” sins of “new” teachers

Monday, July 27, 2009

One of my previous blog posts spoofed the 7 “marvellous” sins of great teachers. Now, I’d like to unspoof and great real and talk about “new” English teachers.
I just spent 2 days interviewing 29 new teachers each day! Wow, talk about a treadmill….. The teachers besides answering questions had to go through a "demo" lesson [...]

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Teaching Skills – the small things count

Sunday, March 1, 2009

This is #1 of a series of presentations focusing on micro teaching skills. The next will be even more practical.
I hope to get some time to clarify these ideas but if you have any questions – please ask! Hope this helps some teachers out there and I believe in each and every idea expounded here…
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Teaching Tips from the Trenches

Sunday, February 22, 2009

I recently got a barage of requests for “advice”. I really am honored and EVERY time try my best to give the most and most apt advice I possibly can given all the variables involved.
This got me thinking and of course, “out popped a powerpoint”! I thought I’d record my thoughts in some fashion, to [...]

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