Whenever I travel it always strikes me that whatever may happen things always get back to normal amazingly quickly. Last night I arrived in Kiev. So what did we do? We went out for dinner. In a restaurant, sat on the terrace with lots of other people, just like every other city I’ve been in….
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Scott wrote in to reply to the “Opposite of shy? and how to cure it” post What can I do with the over hyperactive kids in class? Well, the first thing is, try not to see the excess energy as a problem. Ideally our job is to just take that energy and focus it…
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If you want to see the future, and all the amazing things it brings, I’d definitely recommend Inc magazine. ( I get the iPad edition each month and it is a fantastic antidote to the so called “news” sites like CNN or BBC!) And as education is such a huge part of the future,…
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You know I normally travel to a workshop and it feels like I’m visiting you. But today, as the venue is a hotel and I was staying here the night before, for the first time ever it was like people were actually coming, from 5 different countries (Hungary, Austria, Poland, Czech Republic & Slovakia), …
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Even though it’s my last day in Italy I seemed to have been roped into doing a series of demo lessons in the morning! Which is fine, after a day off at the beautiful lake Garda and then a day full of computer work yesterday it is actually really nice to actually do some teaching!…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/italy-demo-lessons-vienna-to-slovakia-why-all-english-is-a-terrible-idea/
Let me start off today with a little story …. When I was in my 3rd year of teaching full time I had lunch with a local university professor. I was telling him about the programmes I’d started and how I was trying to change how we taught. As he listened I could see a…
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