Hello Doggies, Some of you may remember I posted last year re: 'Dogme Style DELTA'; belated thanks to those who replied with help and advice... Since then I've...
Pete, Your job sounds one hell of a challenge - immensely worthwhile and down-to-reality, but I can't pretend I'm not relieved that it's your challenge rather...
Dear Pete, Amazing you and what a challenge! Falling asleep here Dennis' suggestion floated in my brain: "You've clearly got to have your students with you all...
Hi Pete, Agree with the others so far. A bit scary, but what a challenge! Just a few questions first of all - what is the syllabus you mentioned and can you...
Hi, Thanks hugely for the replies so far - have been scrutinising them closely... Answers to questions; Can't dump the syllabus - it's the Adult ESOL Core...
Hi Pete Well, you're certainly not alone! I think you're question is one that is going to cause some head-scratching to the Dogmetics, largely because most...
Hi Pete & everyone, Firstly, good luck to you Pete! As I'm sure you will hear many say you are in for both a challenging but potentially rewarding experience. ...
Dear Renata: Thanks for the tangent, which was not tangential at all. It's obviously relevant to the problem Diarmuid raised about cultural expectations in the...
Pete, If the idea of becoming a " figure of authority" as Diarmuid suggests, brings you out in a sweat, try two legally defined positions instead - a "fit...
'I'm anticipating getting flamed for this but being an authority is not necessarily a negative thing. If you accept that your authority is on loan to you and...
Luke Meddings
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Apr 2, 2003 9:07 am
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Hello everyone here, I am a new member to this list and have been following some of the recent discussions and am pleased to read about other people...
Dear Pete, ... Adult Literacy Core Curriculum. Gov't inspectors are coming again in May and it's the benchmark they use - college doesn't satisfy requirements...
Isn't this the proof of the pudding? Now we can just take over, can't we? ... Luke Meddings London ... From: "Adrian Tennant" <adrian.tennant@...> To:...
Luke Meddings
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Apr 2, 2003 3:56 pm
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I took my wif......, sorry, the regular teacher's class today as planned. For those of you who missed the beginning - this is a class of 16 11/12-year-olds in...
coming in a bit late here, but Pete's situation and all the related postings are at the heart of dogme (and, as Diarmuid suggested, also at the heart of...
Before Dr Evil sends us all down the path of anarchy (!), let's just be clear...was the syllabus you dumped THE syllabus (ie the National Curriculum, as...
Don't know whether this is relevant, but Marilyn Manson (the outrageous punk-goth rock singer, on whose antics many people blamed the Columbine school...
Diarmuid, Unfortunately not 'the' syllabus. But the 'the' syllabus is not used for either EFL or ESOL. I'm fairly sure that the syllabus that Pete is referring...
The Albanian boy said to my wife this morning: "That lesson with your husband was more English than school." (...mehr Englisch als Schule). ... But school,...
Doc I can see where the confusion is arising. Pete and myself are indeed talking about the same thing which is actually called the Adult ESOL core curriculum...
During a Methodology class at my University today I happened to mention the fact that there ARE some guys out there who don't think it's essential to have all...
Dimitrijevic
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Apr 4, 2003 1:32 pm
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Any comments? Well, you could start by asking your "teacher" whether screaming at students for 5m34s would help would-be teachers pass the exam....
Dear Danica, Mmm, What's your teachers name? Ask her if she has been to the Ministry of Education Winter or Summer Schools. Tell her my name (Adrian Tennant)...
Danica wrote: "This had my teacher screaming at me for the next 5 mins 34 secs" I wonder how your teacher accounted for this outburst in HIS lesson plan? ...
Hi Danica. Perhaps (ahem hem...) what your teacher meant was that learners shouldn't get in the way of Lesson Plans ..... after all, what're they for?? (I'll...
From my particular experience, Danica, whether it was in Ghana in West Africa in the 60s, Qatar in the Arabian Gulf in the 70s or at the University of...
Why "lesson plans" don't actually plan lessons (even planned lessons). First of all, only one person in the classroom gets a copy. You can argue that...
Dear Danica, It sounds like you had a really surprising reaction to your attempts to set up a dialogue in the classroom. Your teacher obviously didn't feel...
Hello renata and All, ... Thanks for a balanced reply, Renata. I agree with you that there is more than one viewpoint here and that challenging class...
Danica, what I always say to trainee teachers about this issue is "It is good to have a plan to give you confidence and have a sense of where you want the ...
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