One thing I’m trying to get teachers to do more is to make the initial vocab introduction a bit more fun. “Repeat after me” with a list of vocab is really boring! But doing a story or getting the kids’ opinions can make all the difference in making them lean forward and be interested or…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/robots-cakes-cops-robbers-getting-kids-attention-in-class/
(There are lots of videos in today’s post, so if you are on email then click here to see them!) Today we had a workshop in Shinjuku Tokyo right outside the Ministry of Defence! One of the requests for was for some card games using the Mini Cards. Now to be honest I don’t really…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/card-games-class-control-in-tokyo/
Discipline is one of those topics that people can’t seem to get enough of. Quite a few of you have been using some of the ideas we discussed last year to great effect (e.g. here and here and here). But what I find most useful is to look outside of teaching to find ways of…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/discipline-zig-ziglar/
