2 quotes from John Holt to help you complete your task ’20 rules of the language classroom’
“The human animal is a learning animal; we like to learn; we are good at it; we don’t need to be shown how or made to do it. What kills the processes are the people interfering with it or trying to regulate it or control it” .
“The biggest enemy to learning is the talking teacher”.
I’d like to start this week’s entry with the notion, which regularly pops up in dogme group discussions: distinction between being prepared and being planned for the lesson. Checking other stuff in Edge (2002) (more…)
So. The first teaching week is moving slowly to its end and, I should say I was very happy to be back to regular teaching after a very long period of summer holidays. The students finally (more…)
3 years ago, in my DELTA days I did Experimental Practice lesson and wrote an assignment on Dogme principles and I was really delighted to watch this recently recorded video as a message from my past:
Despite getting Destinction for that assignment, I think I was not able to give the rationale as clearly as Scott did it in this video: (more…)
