Just to report on Luke's and my dogme presentation at the TESOL Spain conference in Seville this weekend. Took place in the university, once a cigarette...
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Ruth Wajnryb
rwajnryb@...
Apr 4, 2001 8:03 am
I'd start with something experiential, concrete and non-threatening and build in some structured reflective time so people can process the experience. Only...
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Tom Walton
twalton@...
Apr 4, 2001 9:30 am
Maybe, to make it as "interactive" as possible, you could begin by showing them a dozen or so "rules", some of which could be the dogme (or Lucy) ones, and...
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Jeremy Harmer
jeremy.harmer@...
Apr 5, 2001 1:42 pm
Dear Scott and everyone, you're both far too well experienced to need too much advice, but if I were doing the session (ha!) I would certainly do the vow of...
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kellogg
kellogg@...
Apr 6, 2001 8:24 am
Yeah, I'm with Jeremy; you guys don't need advice. The other day I was thinking about Luke's presentation (when he smashed the watch) and trying to decide if...
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sthornbury@...
Apr 6, 2001 1:06 pm
Three things: 1. I'm not sure I agree with David about "those presentations that pretend to be lessons". I think that experiencing classroom activities is...
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Tom Walton
twalton@...
Apr 6, 2001 1:19 pm
I agree with Scott, particularly in the first couple of lines of what he says. Until I attended a seminar in Barcelona, which was along precisely the lines he...
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sthornbury@...
Apr 6, 2001 1:25 pm
Thanks David for reminding me about teachers' anxiety dreams. I did an informal, but not entirely frivolous, study of teachers' dreams a few years back, and...
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Olwyn Alexander
o.alexander@...
Apr 6, 2001 1:59 pm
Share the TIME Magazine cover again with those of us who missed it first time round? (Not necessarily to the whole list of course.) Olwyn On Fri, 6 Apr 2001...
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Tom Walton
twalton@...
Apr 6, 2001 2:12 pm
Yeah, the TIME magazine (Scott?) was pinning it (picture of Arafat?) up and saying nothing and then waiting until they responded and then (horror!!!) leaving...
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sthornbury@...
Apr 6, 2001 5:39 pm
I'm cutting and pasting this from a much earlier posting - sorry for those of you who had it first time round: This happened after I had been teaching I...
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Ruth Wajnryb
rwajnryb@...
Apr 7, 2001 8:04 am
Hi everyone great postings: 1. David: I'm at PO Box 8 Waverley NSW 2024 Australia. 2. Teaching dreams: you mean dreams about teaching that teachers have? What...
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sthornbury@...
Apr 7, 2001 7:05 pm
Yes, good point Ruth re dreams. Basically, when I researched this I faced exactly that problem: what school of dream-ology am I going to subscribe to, to make...
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kellogg
kellogg@...
Apr 8, 2001 12:00 am
First, a dream for Scott's archives. I have accepted a job teaching in Qinghai, which is China's gulag province, where convicts undergo "re-education through...
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Olwyn Alexander
o.alexander@...
Apr 8, 2001 9:16 am
Scott, I'm interested in having a copy of your article on dreams. I remember an article you wrote for ELTJ on using metaphor as a way of evaluating what a ...
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Ruth Wajnryb
rwajnryb@...
Apr 8, 2001 10:10 am
Scott, I'd really like to dos thg with this dream thing. Feeling quite inspired. It'd give me a pretext too for looking to the dream literature, which I've...
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kellogg
kellogg@...
Apr 10, 2001 11:50 pm
It's Tuesday afternoon and I'm plowing through a stack of homework to be used as "materials" for the next class of "Listening Skills for Elementary School...
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Ruth Wajnryb
rwajnryb@...
Apr 11, 2001 8:08 am
Hi folks, I'm shortly to do a seminar/workshop on `the management of bad teaching'. I've already asked Scott for his view son bad teaching. But I wanted to...
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Ruth Wajnryb
rwajnryb@...
Apr 12, 2001 10:44 pm
Dear Olwyn, I am doing a workshop in teacher's metaphors. Can u tell me more about the `discussion place' metaphor you recently referred to thanks! ruth Dr...
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kellogg@...
Apr 13, 2001 2:25 am
Ruth: This really sounds like a question that needs to be unasked. In one sense, "bad teaching" is something that happens to the very best teachers all the...
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Dan and Male
maledan@...
Apr 16, 2001 5:38 pm
Dear all, After a very hectic couple of weeks I find myself in the position to get back to a lot of e-mails and put forward a few ideas of my own. David - Your...
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sthornbury@...
Apr 16, 2001 8:56 pm
Dan, Ruth , everybody First of all, (and it being a long easter weekend) I saw two movies, one was the fourth dogme film - The King is Alive - group of...
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kellogg@...
Apr 17, 2001 5:36 am
Dan: Thanks for the tough read. Yes, the same problem occurred to me. Not so much in terms of which topics are simpler but really in terms of interlocutor:...
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sthornbury@...
Apr 17, 2001 8:28 pm
On 16 Apr 01, at 17:07, Dan wrote: "What do the people in this group do with the information we gather? Information gathering (known more humanly as listening)...
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Ruth Wajnryb
rwajnryb@...
Apr 18, 2001 6:30 am
a few items today: 1. david, hi, got your package in the post today - the article on metaphor is great - just what I need as background - i don't think it'll...
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sthornbury@...
Apr 18, 2001 6:53 am
On the rebound... ... From: Self <sthornbury@...> To: <rwajnryb@...> Subject: bad teaching Send reply to:...
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Julian Savage
jbsavage@...
Apr 18, 2001 9:02 am
To David French, I have just stumbled across your Dogme Discussion Group and, finding that I am inclined to agree with a lot of what you are saying, I'd be...
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Ruth Wajnryb
rwajnryb@...
Apr 19, 2001 11:09 pm
Dr Ruth Wajnryb Director LARA Consultancy rwajnryb@... Hi all I read in the daily paper here today an article in the ARTS section written by an...
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Tom Walton
twalton@...
Apr 20, 2001 6:01 am
Neat point, Ruth. What is the difference between "a teacher who has done no prep and waltzes in to wing it on whatever topic comes up" and someone deliberately...
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Ruth Wajnryb
rwajnryb@...
Apr 20, 2001 10:27 pm
Tom, following on from where we were... surely one difference is the intention with which the teacher enters the classroom. The teacher who is winging it has...
