... We edited ... Nostradamus ... - this ... contentious ... No, not contentious for any of my students. But my Chinese students wqouldn't know when WW2 was...
Adrian says ... Doesn't this illustrate why we want to concentrate on what the teacher and the students bring to the classroom. If the teacher has enough...
Just to clarify, the term 'professional issues' isn't mine. The brief that we've been given is to demonstrate the skill and ability to research and critically...
... Yes, that's about it. For many Chinese students these are not topics of any interest. I wish there was a more outward looking approach to the world but it...
I'm back from a very dogmetic couple of days teaching English in the Japan Alps. The students were seven male agricultural trainees in their 20s, on their way...
I wonder how many non-Chinese on this list can correctly answer the following questions: a) When did World War II start in China? (The month and the date as ...
Julian This sounds a really interesting teaching situation. Did you propose the course like this or were you approached to run it this way? Colin...
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Diarmuid Fogarty
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May 2, 2002 3:56 pm
Hi Richard Is there any chance you could let me know the page numbers of the Kiraly chapter about assessment as I have found somethings in it that I would like...
... the Japan ... Julian, that account is music to my ears. Maybe it goes some way towards addressing Jennifer's plea of very many postings back (1590) which...
I echo what Colin said - can we have more? One thing that did strike me though was that it sounded very ESP. I find that ESP courses can lend themselves more...
Jennifer: Yes, it was not only discourteous of all of us to ignore your suggestion, and it was particularly short-sighted of me, as I work with children and...
Thanks everyone for your comments and questions. There is, of course, much more behind the brief account I provided in the first "classless teaching" posting....
Just a request for information. Elsewhere CELTA is being referred to as a British Council examination. Is that so? I wasn't aware that the British Council ...
Dennis, I know that in Turkey the British council run two types of certificate. A Cert.ELT, which isn't internationally recognised but is better than nothing...
A teacher (in China) who tells me that he heard about dogme on the TESL-L List (is this fame?) suggested we have a look at this URL about John Gatto: ...
Where did Gatto go to school, Airstrip One? Sounds like a much more traumatic and unpleasant education than the one I went through (Canadian public HS). ...
GTom says ... I think these things tend to have developed before high school. In primary school I certainly wanted that red star and I remember well the first...
... As some of you may remember, I have home-schooled my two daughters for the last twelve years. And although I only first heard of JTG less than two years...
Diarmuid, The Kiraly reference is: Don Kiraly A Social Constructivist Approach to Translator Education Empowerment from Theory to Practice St. Jerome...
... John Gatto: I had a quick look. It took me back to the 60's. I remember so many similar ideas in Illich and John Holt (remember 'How Children Fail'?). It's...
Leaving aside my doubts about somebody who doesn't want to become a guru and yet who offers autographed copies of his book as an incentive to buy...Gatto's...
... Wouldn't it be just as well we stopped the pendulum swinging? The extremes are never where we will find long term success and useful results. Education...
Dick, I don't think the pendulum ever stopped swinging. Gatto's in my hall of fame. I'm waiting for the updated version of 'Dumbing us Down' right now. David...
Grumpy Isn't it reasonable to be of the opinion that the educational systems in most developed countries have been devised and refined to produce a compliant...
... Tom, I often agree with your points of view. However, this time, I have to say that in my observations, what is considered "long term success and useful ...
... He seems to be arguing against the idea of professional teachers. Kids (and anyone for that matter) can be educated in the real world and what they learn...
I like the Illich story, Dick! I agree with you completely, we *do* have to start where people are, but at the same time, we also need to be clear about where...
Julian: If your ears were burning last night, it was because your name was much bandied at our MA thesis defense. One of the grads used your work with Richard...
