This is my first attempt at a Podcast, which I did for a client who is setting up a website for parents looking for useful and entertaining content related to their kids. For this Podcast I interviewed Martha Lawton, of Lawton Training and Consultancy, an expert in getting people out of debt and into good financial [...]
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For the most part I loved O-bam-bam’s inaugural speech, and will probably watch it again. I especially liked the part about ‘honesty, hard work and courage’ being ‘the quiet force of progress’ through history. Not bad for a twenty-seven year old speech writer. I’ll be pushing my team of writers to develop a lesson around the [...] My explanatory guide on subjects to be avoided at all costs in ELT materials. PornographyStudent: Teacher, what is ‘pornography’?Teacher: Er, it’s pictures of naked people.Student: Do you mean like paintings?Teacher: Er, not really.Student (smelling blood now): So, what is the difference?Teacher: … Why don’t you ask Michel? He was looking at some on one of the student [...] I just had to write a chapter on Project Management for a business studies textbook. I used to hate teaching business English and writing business English materials, but then I went freelance and started running my own business and suddenly the subject came alive for me. Working with Americans and Chinese people also invigorated my interest [...] …about working in the English Language Teaching (ELT) industry is that you have an excuse to research and write about almost every subject under the sun (apart from those that fall under the PARSNIP exceptions, of which perhaps another post at another time). Things I have had to think about this week: -Spontaneous Human Combustion: it can kill [...] Loving this post about buzzwords in education. I’ve had to sit through a lot of meetings and read a lot of emails recently about whether my editorial team should be training our writers to utilise the ESA (Engage, Study, Activate) methodology, or the PPP methodology (Present, Practice, Produce). Then again there’s TTT (Test, Teach, Test) or [...] I’m back from the training course I was helping to run in Shanghai and now I have a team of three fresh, enthusiastic writers making their first foray into materials development. My job is to guide them through the next three months, and try to keep their spirits up as the creativity falters and the production line [...] I’ve spent a fair portion of the past week observing classes in the schools where the materials I’ll be editing will be used. The schools are extremely swish looking, but the classroom materials they use (PowerPoint presentations) are clunky and don’t match with the online course the students follow at home and in the language labs. ‘Check [...] Anyone with an interest in seeing how sex education is taught to British teenagers can watch my friend Alice doing what she does best here. She says the kids are normally more vocal, but they were intimidated by the bloody great TV camera and wouldn’t say anything. Don’t blame them. I wouldn’t want to be on the [...] I’ve been titillating my insomnia with a local history book kindly provided by my dad. It’s called A Salmon for the Schoolhouse and charts the day to day concerns of a 19th century schoolmaster in the village where I grew up. Surprisingly, it seems that schoolmasters of yore were just as plagued by HM Inspectorate as [...] |
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