Informed Teachers

This is the last of the post series with  the main points from some of the workshops from the ABCI conference I attended from the 12th - 14th of July 2012. More details on this congress on : http://www.abci2012.com.br/About.php We're all in this together,  aren't we?     Jeremy Harmer Staff room is one of the best places in the world. The conversations make a teachers life worth living. A conference is a huge staff room. There are teachers who stopped growing and keep teaching the same way, are stuck in their own way. Good teachers = good learners   :-) The more we interrogate our practices the younger we stay in terms of methodology. Conferences nowadays are live streamed. In foreign lgg learning there's fear and desire.  Fear  usually hold us back. He mentions the collaborative work of Twitter. This is a feature of 2012 onwards. Internet media can be a huge staff room. (teacher sharing tools) Teachers should use media to share succes

More summaries from the workshops - ABCI 2012 Where do we go from here?   An overview of English teaching methodology in 2012    -  Penny Ur Methodology Review: * Grammar translation method(use of L1) * Direct method (teacher - st dialogues, the original communicative one) *Audio-Lingual Method (no grammar explanations, ver little vocabulary, lgg is a set of habits) * Task-based lgg teaching  (*)  (mainly communicative tasks) These represent theoretical models, rarely  if ever taught in their "pure" form. They provide a picture of different trends and orientations in the history of ELT. Very often developed as a "reaction against" . A post-method era Oposition in principle to the concept of method as a basis for English teaching. Some evidence that method is not the critical variable in successful teaching. There's an assumption that teachers need to be told what to do, how to teach. Political issues : Mainta

This post has a compilation of the main points from some of the workshops from the ABCI conference I attended from the 12th - 14th of July 2012. More details on this congress on : http://www.abci2012.com.br/About.php Below the key points from more workshops I attended:      Critical Thinking Lindsay Clandfield  What is critical thinking and literacy? Taxonomy -  higher types of thinking (manipulation of ideas, solve problems, construction) #  lower order(receive, recite, transmite and reproduce knowledge) We are in the Information age Educator needs to create a opportunities for higher thinking Open your mind for different possibilities Critical Literacy _ political knowledge too, social act, questions what is presented, learn about others and ourselves He suggested starting the debate of a topic with a citation, or debating which out of some sentences are facts and opinions, make sts relate and debate and have conflicting info coming, identify impli

Hi :) This post has a compilation of the main points from some of the workshops from the ABCI conference I attended from the 12th - 14th of July 2012. More details on this congress on : http://www.abci2012.com.br/About.php Below the key points from the workshops I attended: David Nunan  1st speaker Work Force Education in the 21st century * English language needs of workers in a wide range of workplaces * How can technology help meet these needs? Maximize the effectiveness in the learning context * Most effective and cost effective means of meeting student's needs?   Kathleen Bailey    2nd speaker *The impact of English ...study case TIRF conducted - Research Foundation *She shared the questions from Questionnaire, numbers Jun Liu   3rd speaker *Mentioned data from the typical papers written in TESOL area/Survey *EFL   ESL as a trend * English as lingua franca What is the essence of the future?  Challenge : create an innovating