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A New Direction in Feedback
Russell Stannard, UK
Russell Stannard is a principal lecturer at the University of Westminster
where he teaches on the MA in TESOL and ICT/Multimedia courses. He recently won
the Times Higher award for “Outstanding Initiative in ICT “for his website
www.teachertrainingvideos.com
. The website offers free
training material for teachers interested in integrating technology into their
teaching. His work on feedback has created coverage in the national press and is
being researched in many countries around the world. E-mail:
russellstannard@btinternet.com,
www.russellstannard.com
Socratic questioning and its value in teaching - absolutely great list of questions you can ask.
Here are the six types of questions that Socrates asked his pupils. Probably often to their initial annoyance but more often to their ultimate delight. He was a man of remarkable integrity and his story makes for marvelous reading.
Teaching English as a foreign language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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EnglishTalk.Info, translated into many languages
Infinite Thinking Machine: About
The ITM is a positive vehicle for K-12 educators to share stories and ideas that tap into the infinite resources available on the Internet. Our goal is simple: to show how today's digital tools can impact student learning in meaningful ways. The ITM is about learning, thinking, communicating, and creativity - not technology. We sincerely hope that this blog and our media productions can jumpstart a wider conversation about innovation and creativity in K-12 education, and we look forward to hearing your ideas and feedback.
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TEFLclips
Welcome to teflclips, a site dedicated to the
possibilities for YouTube and other video sharing sites in the classroom. Every
week a new lesson plan will be uploaded.
Positive deviance: tapping into the power of your hidden change agents | Teaching Expertise
'In positive deviance work we say that it is easier to act your way into a \nnew way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting.... In the \ndevelopment world, the conventional wisdom is that knowledge changes attitudes \nand attitudes change practice. Positive deviance reverses that. We start with \nchanging practice. As people see that changes make a difference, their attitude \nchanges and they internalise the knowledge. We can spend our lives learning \nabout something, but that doesn't necessarily change our behavior.'
Robin Alexander -Dialgos talk empowers students
Towards Dialogic Teaching surveys research evidence on the role of talk in learning and teaching from different disciplines and countries and shows how it converges on and sustains the idea of dialogic teaching. Dialogic teaching exploits the potential of classroom talk for cognitive as well as social empowerment, but only when such talk is a good deal more rigorous and reciprocal than is traditionally the case
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