It is the spooky season. 👻 I never used to teach Halloween but it is now such a huge part of UK and US culture – especially for kids – that we really have no choice! The cool thing is that we can use all that spooky power to teach all the English we need…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/the-bat-who-was-afraid-of-the-dark-13-other-new-halloween-stories/
A huge welcome to all the new teachers joining us this month, both through the free email course and of course the main VIP Teacher’s Set! This is our 25th year and my aim is to make kids LOVE learning English & to get amazing results. The best place to start, as they say, is…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/welcome/
Traditional schools love numbers. Parents demand them. Administrators track them. Test scores, vocab lists, grammar drills — these are the “gold” standard. But here’s the secret: Goodhart’s Law. Named after economist Charles Goodhart, it says “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” The moment schools focus on hitting test…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/goodharts-law-why-genki-english-teachers-get-it-right-and-traditional-schools-miss-the-mark/
Just in case you forget …. Thank you for everything you do!
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/just-in-case-you-forget/
Shhhh, It’s far too early for this ….
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/shhhhh-its-too-early-for-this/
Hello, I hope things are going great this week! We hear a lot about how mobile phones are bad for kids. But it’s not really the phones that’s the problem, it’s the social media that’s the real villain! So kids definitely shouldn’t be on social media! But for teachers there is a LOT of very…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/lets-brighten-up-your-day/
