A huge welcome to all the new teachers joining us this month, ย both through the free email course and of course the main VIP Teacher’s Set!ย This is our 25th year and my aim is to make kids LOVE learning English & to get amazing results. The best place to start, as they say, is…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/welcome/
Traditional schools love numbers. Parents demand them. Administrators track them. Test scores, vocab lists, grammar drills โ these are the “gold” standard. But here’s the secret: Goodhartโs Law. Named after economist Charles Goodhart, it says โWhen a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.โ The moment schools focus on hitting test…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/goodharts-law-why-genki-english-teachers-get-it-right-and-traditional-schools-miss-the-mark/
Just in case you forget …. Thank you for everything you do!
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/just-in-case-you-forget/
Shhhh, It’s far too early for this ….
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/shhhhh-its-too-early-for-this/
Hello, I hope things are going great this week! We hear a lot about how mobile phones are bad for kids. ย But it’s not really the phones that’s the problem, it’s the social media that’s the real villain! So kids definitely shouldn’t be on social media! But for teachers there is a LOT of very…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/lets-brighten-up-your-day/
Sometimes humans have to slow down a touch, to make things understandable. ย But if we go too slow we lose momentum. A prime example is trying to learn English in just one hour per week. All the research (admittedly on non-Genki English teaching) shows once a week doesn’t work. It’s just far too slow to…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/english-lessons-once-a-week-doesnt-work/
