Hi Mr Evil, I explained I had no idea of the dogmetic spirit, all I wanted to say was: "here I am, this is what I've been doing with some students, what do you...
Hi Marina, I wasn't 'attacking' you but rather trying to draw everyone's attention to one of the fundamentals of Dogme - that it's the students that are at the...
Ciao, Marina! I loved your activity with the shapes! It's very creative and fun...As you opened for suggestions,I just wouldn't give them a key at the end..I'd...
... I sat through two hours of a boring staff meeting today - traditional for the teacher's first day at school at mine at least - nothing better to squash...
I think Adrian is right when he warns of the pitfalls of sharing planned activities and leaving students outside to wait and see what's in store for them. At...
quite a few posters have been taking the words out of my mouth recently (for which I am very grateful) and Sandra's response to Marina is just how I would have...
... gesture ... I'm responding to a discussion that is almost a year old, so this should be interesting. The structuralist picture of phonemes and segments...
Thanks--that was worth the wait! I too strongly believe that if language is socially motivated and socially constructed then it must be worthwhile speculating...
Hi Doc I don't think there's anything wrong with going in with some *ideas* (not plans) about what you might find out from the students. People go into all...
Chrales Januzzi wrote: "Therefore, they must use visual clues from the faces of their caregivers combined with the acoustic input to deduce the phonological...
... From: Charles Jannuzzi <b_rieux@...> To: <dogme@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 6:43 PM Subject: [dogme] Re: Paradigms and Gestures...
Charles and dk, Are you familiar with the book Ways of seeing by John Berger (BBC and Penguin Books 1972)? It was also a BBC television series in, I think,...
... Good for you and them! I (my students) have had only a partial success, three of them (aged 14 and 15) passed their FCE and two (aged 16) failed. But:...
Robert writes: "It can frighten some teachers/learners to imagine entering a classroom without any shred of planned activities or materials. I believe it would...
Zosia writes/asks: "I suppose I should have said that I'm being friendly with them, not friends... might that be the difference? I think that's it, Zosia. I...
Robert writes: " ........... the more natural the approach to learning, the more it will resemble authentic human interaction, which tends to involve us as...
Jane, I think, mentioned new terms and teachers returning their thoughts to the classroom. I've just been sent a copy of the course offerings in further ...
Rob writes: "It can frighten some teachers/learners to imagine entering a classroom without any shred of planned activities or materials. I believe it would...
Sandra asks: Is planning the class against the principles of Dogme? Well .... not necessarily. And, as usual someone has said exactly what I would have liked...
Hey, friend Adrian. Aren't you spinning words? You write you sit : "wondering what surprises lie in store, wondering what I should do if nobody has anything...
Hi Zosia On the friends thing Probably the people who took you to task at the IATEFL just saw an opportunity to give a more TEACHER view. They probably think...
But it's like you said before Dennis, it's the use of experience (those tricks up your sleeve). + what you're 'planning' is ways to initiate output NOT what...
Thank you Sandra and Sue, thank you Dr. Evil, I know you didn't mean to attack. I used to be the kind of teacher who was planning everything in her mind and I...
I often remain friends with students long after they have completed my class. Last week I had lunch with a former student from Argentina, a dermatologist in...
I don't know if what Rosemary writes about is "real dogme", but it certainly forms part of what dogme is all about. Perhaps it's closer to the truth to write...
ALL of my students want to be in the class I teach and want to learn English. That is because I teach in the US and they need English for survival and ...
Thanks to all who've posted recently; I've enjoyed reading your contributions on why we feel frightened in front of the class and on planning. I have to say...
Students willingness to be present has little to do with us. Before they enter our classes, they dont' even know who we are!! If the students llive in the...
