The proof of the pudding is in the eating, so the teachers wanted to see how GE really works with real kids. We had about 60 from every age from 6 weeks to 6th grade! (We set the minimum limit as 1st grade, but of course parents always lie to try and get their little…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/superhero-kids-flashcard-video/
UPDATE: Thank you to everyone who came to these workshops – you were fantastic! To see where I’ll be next, check out the schedule page! ——————————————————————- I’m up in Tokyo for the next few days (give me a shout if you’d like to catch up for a coffee or beer!) and I’ve just got dates…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/shiga-okinawa-workshops-in-september/
Today was the 4th time I’d been invited by Odate City’s Board of Education in the north of Japan (where all the trees are very different!) This time it was to do a full day teachers’ workshop today and a demo show for the kids tomorrow. And we had a fantastic group of teachers who whizzed through…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/makings-of-a-great-teacher-sushi/
The keen eyed amongst you might have noticed 4 new picture books on the site over the weekend. Some of them I wrote in 2006 and had on the beta test forum, but hadn’t linked up from the main site. Sorry about that, but thanks to Gaz for reminding me! How to teach? As usual you…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/4-new-esl-picture-books/
It always seems a little strange that many teachers refuse to do part of their job (teaching English) just because they don’t feel confident about it. If we all did that no one would ever do any job. After all you’ve got to start somewhere and a few butterflies never hurt anyone! So today was…
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As we had quite a few people staying over after the workshop yesterday, this morning I did a quick “breakfast chat” in English going through more great questions. One of the questions I was asked was “How would you set up your ideal classroom?” My answer was “give each kid a laptop!” Of course the…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/the-perfect-english-classroom-how-to-add-extras/
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