Please Vote for #ELTchat on 04/06/2014
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Next #ELTchat on Wednesday 04/06 at 12:00 p.m. BST
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8 Responses
How to prepare for and teach ‘demo classes’ effectively in teaching training courses, interviews and other forums where you are delivering a lesson for real learners who you may know almost nothing about.
Adrian Underhill’s ideas about “The Inner Workbench”: seeing/planning from ‘inside the heads’ of our learners, esp. with pronunciation. The work of Earl Stevick as well, informs conversations about the purely psychological stance/movement of learners during classroom interaction(s). How to YOU imagine the “Inner Workbench”?
What do language teachers need research for? Is there a bias against research in the teaching profession (or vice versa)? Do the two tribes (teachers and researchers) need to engage in dialogue more?
Should qualified teachers claim legal status? If so, how?
Can you please elaborate a little on this issue, Angelos. I am not sure I understand what you mean.
You are right! It is a topic that has to do with our profession and legal recognition. I will use the example of Greece because I am more familiar with it: In our country, whether someone is trained or not doesn’t make any difference in terms of legal status (i.e. a trained teacher cannot claim better income; it is an employer’s decision). I am pretty sure that this is the case in other countries, as well. How fair is this? What is the situation in other countries, etc.
Hi Philip – we were not able to include your topic as we have talked about research at LEAST twice – see summaries linked below and there is one more chat which doesn’t have a summary on the page even
http://eltchat.org/wordpress/summary/how-important-is-research-in-elt-should-teachers-be-engaged-in-research-if-possible-eltchat-summary-25052011/
http://eltchat.org/wordpress/summary/research-in-class-doing-it-and-using-it-to-improve-your-teaching-an-eltchat-summary-200313/
Hi Marisa – no worries, I wouldn’t want to flog a dead horse! I’ll have a read of the summaries you’ve posted.
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