I know lots of you are doing demo lessons this week for all your potential new students – good luck! To help you on your way, here is my top lesson plan to guarantee awesome sign ups plus lots of tips and tricks! My Top ESL DEMO Lesson Plan TPR Warm Up -> Genki Disco…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/best-esl-english-demo-lesson-to-get-new-students/
As you might have seen on Facebook, I just put up a dedicated new page for the free email teaching course. If you have any friends that need a teaching boost with daily tips, tricks and motivation then please send them to this page to sign up. I’m pretty sure it’s the best teacher training…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/get-my-free-superhero-teaching-email-course/
I had a friend over for dinner last night and she was looking through my Vietnam photos. She said “But …. just look at all these photos, isn’t it strange ….” …. in each city, it’s only women.” Even in Ukraine last year …. And it was almost all girls in Italy & Tokyo …….
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/is-learning-english-for-girls-only/
With a huge screen and 500 brand new teachers, today was all about getting them to believe in themselves, to try something new and get totally confident doing it! Yesterday’s workshop was really hard. Really, really hard. So today I completely changed it up, I threw out the teacher training and just did an…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/ultimate-genki-confidence-workshop-this-is-how-you-motivate-a-huge-room-full-of-teachers/
Don’t worry, I’m still in Vietnam (more big workshops like this one for primary school teachers here tomorrow) but for those of you in Japan you might have seen yesterday’s Nikkei Shinbun newspaper about English becoming an official subject in 2020. (*Here’s an English version from Japan Today) I’ve have blogged about this before with the plans to do…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/japans-plans-for-primary-school-english/
So I’m just on Day 3 of a massive teacher training tour of Vietnam. I made the error on day 2 of trying to do too much teacher training stuff (games, activities, discipline etc.) and not enough motivation work for the teachers to see why we are doing this. Especially in the middle of a…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/teach-them-to-yearn-for-the-vast-and-endless-sea/
