What’s in your Essential Teacher’s Kit? #ELTchat Summary 25/04/2012
This summary was contributed by Chris Wilson and was first posted on his blog here where the tweets look much better! It is reproduced here with his kind permission.
What’s in your Essential Teacher’s Kit?
This Wednesday’s (25/04/2012) 12 pm chat topic was “what’s in your essential teachers kit” all the things you wouldn’t want to be without in the classroom and it generated over 500 tweets! That’s a lot of items!
Main themes:
- What is really essential?
- What do you take into every lesson?
- How is your ETK different for different ages.
- What mindset do you bring with you into the classroom?
- Hitech vs low tech [replacing paper resources with tech]
- Teaching online as opposed to offline
- Resources, such as photos, postits, dice, mini whiteboards etc that can be used for many different activities.
- What students bring vs what teachers bring
- Items for CPD and Language clarification during the lesson.
- Resources as only the physical embodiment of the mentality and ideas we enter the classroom with.
Some tweets:
Essential:
Language items:
For Activities
Hi-tech:
More abstract
What do you get students to bring?
Always on you:
Reflective practices:
Wouldn’t be #ELTchat without Dogme
Some links shared:
Some things I found interesting from the discussion.
Several times teachers mentioned resources and others suggested were bdd because they had never seen them work. Perhaps this goes along with the idea that some teachers can/can’t use a resource/teach in certain ways but can use other tools/methods.
In general, we seamed to come to the conclusion that really the only essential things are, the teacher, the student, knowledge of the subject, though we all have our favourite items and resources. Perhaps the name “Essential” was a bit misleading and something like “emergency teachers kit” would have been better?
Anyway, it was interesting to see how few items we really require when teaching.
For the complete transcript click here.
About the Author
Chris Wilson
Christopher Wilson @MrChrisJWilson
Follower of Jesus, English teaching in Dnipro Ukraine ,speaker of poor Russian and blogger of http://eltsquared.co.uk
One Response
Lots of nice ideas there …. I don’t carry it into the room with me, but I usually have a link to : http://www.just-the-word.com/ set up in the class (white board). I’m working with advanced French students – their errors are usually to with collocation and a quick search on just the words usually solves any problems – and make them aware of collocation …
it’s also useful when I’m marking papers and I have to ask myself the question ‘do we say that in English …?’
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