Most kids these days have no idea what they want to do. Motivation and careers advice is severely lacking. So this is one technique from my motivation courses for universities that I use to get students really seeing their future – in just ten minutes! Even if you’re an adult, take the ten minutes to do the exercise, it…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/how-to-get-your-ideal-lifestyle-what-do-you-want-to-be/
Interested in doing a CELTA or TEFL course? Over on the VIP members forum we’ve got Tonester and Sara writing a fantastic series of posts as they go through their CELTA (Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults) & TEFL ( Teaching English as a Foreign Language) studies. If you’ve ever considered the courses then…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/celta-tefl-more/
The Boston Globe has just done a long piece on one of the schools I’ve been working with in India, and how it could be a model to solve the world’s education crisis! Class Difference – Boston Globe
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/genki-in-the-boston-globe/
Many of the games on the Genki English Games page can be used to teach reading. You simply change the picture cards used to be written words. (Of course a little phonics beforehand always helps!) Here’s another game to teach reading that Yoko introduced at the ACET meeting on Sunday: Who, what or where? Reading…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/games-to-teach-reading/
If you’re teaching full time, or at least with more than a dozen students in total, the last thing you want to do is to spend time chasing up payments or parents who haven’t paid for classes. Taking cash after each lesson can soon become a logistical nightmare. So to save all the stress, the pulled out…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/start-your-own-school-tip-5-stress-buster-bank-transfers/
Update: We’ve now put the handbook online as a funky new website! Here’s the Study Abroad handbook we’ve been working on for Australia. It’s packed with info & looking gorgeous! If you’ve ever thought of taking your students abroad on the trip of a lifetime, or fancy a free trip to Australia (schools usually organise…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/free-trip-to-australia-study-abroad-handbook/
