UPDATE: Thank you to everyone who came to these workshops – you were amazing! To see where I’ll be next, check out the workshop schedule page! Update: Fukuoka workshop is now full! There are some really amazing teachers coming – totally looking forward to seeing you guys – and I’ll be doing the workshop bilingually…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/fukuoka-full-ukraine-preorders-this-week-italy-filling-fast/
I just had my first helicopter piloting lesson. It was amazing. Flying down the river seriously felt like Apocalypse Now – I wish I had taken a GoPro camera with me. And as you know I *always* recommend teachers to take new & different classes. Whether you have a good teacher or a bad teacher…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/demo-lesson-ideas-learnt-from-my-first-helicopter-pilot-lesson/
From all the emails I’ve had I know quite a few of you are busy at work writing your next year’s curriculum. To give you some inspiration, some ideas and hopefully a lot less stress, I’ve just pulled up some of my top curriculum posts for you. These all focus on the first 50 to…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/ninja-tips-to-curriculum-writing-lesson-planning-for-elementary-high-school-adults-babies/
Valerie wrote in to ask where the Printable Elementary School curriculum was. ( She liked how she could print it out to show parents or co-workers, and could write in the date of each theme.) As we now have so many themes I have’t updated the file in a while, but maybe it is still…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/printable-elementary-school-curriculum-italy-dates-confirmed/
Interesting post on the BBC today about how… “Waving your arms, wriggling your fingers and striding around a room can help you learn faster.“ For a long time we’ve known how well it works with phonics, language learning, things like telling the time and high powered business communicators (think CEOs, Presidents etc. who are always very deliberate…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/gestures-help-you-learn-faster-says-the-bbc/
Yep, that’s me in a suit! After seeing my May schedule lots of teachers have written in asking: What on Earth do you have for breakfast? And where do you get all your energy from? The easy answer is “It all comes from the students!” 🙂 (Which is certainly true in that with a great…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/where-do-i-get-all-my-energy/
