Ddeubel's Blog Posts Tagged 'teaching' (5)

Click to take the quiz about your own philosophy of education



I've written lots about philosophies of education. How important they are to develop and sustain.  A lot of what is "stress" in today's teaching world, derives from teachers working in settings that conflict with their own underlying philosophy of education - often, the teacher not really even knowing that this conflict… Continue

Well, it is finally here! TEFList, the video ELT job site. A l ot of work went into it and it really does some amazing things. Ning is charging us through the nose and I hope any revenue provided by TEFList will help our community survive.



1) All the jobs in ELT in one spot (no being a chicken with your head cut off)…

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My thoughts on how technology is part of the curriculum for language teachers. You might also like my ebook of top sites for language teaching



Here is a presentation in brief - focusing on how technology relates to curriculum. Some tips, some thoughts .......…





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A Classroom’s Hierarchy Of Needs



I just got home after a morning of observing two classrooms. One was wonderful, a place that all students would long to be in. One was dreadful, a place that students would only just barely tolerate and where one student actually said, when asked to make a metaphor using the word school, “School is jail”.



What made them different? On the face of it they were both… Continue

I have the honor and privilege of quite often giving end of year, end of course, graduation and other speeches to teachers. I take it seriously and usually end with a story. Stories work well and inspire. One of the ones I've used most often is this one - MAKE A DIFFERENCE. But I have a number of personal anecdotes and also folktales. You can read many others in the… Continue