textbook
March 18, 2013
Developing curriculum is time consuming but worth it – unless the time it takes makes you give up on communicative teaching all together! I’ve blogged about some ways and even more ways on easing into developing curriculum. Here are two more. Tackle one unit, one class at a time. This is part of taking baby steps. If you’re […]
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March 6, 2013
Read the first post on easing into developing curriculum. Recently the topic for the weekly Twitter chat addressing world language teaching issues, #langchat, was the role of the textbook in the classroom. Teachers on Twitter just seem naturally more progressive to me anyway, but I was pleasantly surprised to see how many teachers are working to break […]
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February 25, 2013
Recently the topic for the weekly Twitter chat addressing world language teaching issues, #langchat, was the role of the textbook in the classroom. Teachers on Twitter just seem naturally more progressive to me anyway, but I was pleasantly surprised to see how many teachers are working to break their chains to the textbook. What’s wrong […]
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July 26, 2012
Advice for teachers in training
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I’ve gotten two emails lately from teachers in training asking for advice. If there are any significant number of preservice teachers like them, asking such good questions and determined to pursue excellence, we’re headed for great things in language learning. One just asked me for general advice for a preservice teacher. Here are a couple […]
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June 8, 2011
For my original post about the myths, look here. Textbook companies make a lot of money off of telling us that they’ve done all the work and they’re all we need. Audio? They’ve got it. Video? That too. Activities? Structure? Assessments? It’s an all-in-one package, for a price. And out-of-date as soon as it’s printed. […]
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