Lesson plans are a waste of time. Lesson plans take too long to write. Inexperienced teachers find lesson planning too hard and too time consuming. Even experienced teachers can find lesson plann...
https://languagemoments.wordpress.com/2015/07/20/lesson-planning-why-youve-been-doing-it-wrong/
Hackathons have become part of the professional lexicon in Berlin. The event, which can last anything from one day to a whole weekend and sometimes a whole week, is a place for like minded indivi...
https://languagemoments.wordpress.com/2015/04/12/elt-hackathon/
I’m getting really excited about the new ELTstat project. The results from the Germany Pay Survey 2014 can be found on this blog, but that’s not all. There’s a new survey up there that’s ...
https://languagemoments.wordpress.com/2014/11/02/eltstat-why-im-getting-excited/
Directors of studies can be a mixed bunch. I’ve had a few; the one who’ll always be there to lend and ear or help out, the one who is useless with admin, the business person who’s guiding m...
https://languagemoments.wordpress.com/2014/08/02/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-dos/
How to not get freelance Business English work with a language school Joining a language school might seem like quite a simple process. From a small provider to national or international school o...
https://languagemoments.wordpress.com/2014/07/25/how-not-to-get-freelance-business-english-work/
Needs analysis is the foundation for providing effective Business English training and it seems more and more often that I am teaching English for meetings. Every school has its own needs analysi...
https://languagemoments.wordpress.com/2014/02/26/how-do-you-analyze-needs/
Hi Everyone, Today is the day ELTABB releases volume 1 of the ELTABB Journal. Check out it here and read contributions from Scott Thornbury, Phil Wade and Evan Frendo. Thanks, Dale
https://languagemoments.wordpress.com/2014/02/23/eltabb-journal/
I came home from work today and I cleaned up the kitchen. Why did I do it? I wanted to, the mess from my dinner party last night, still left in the washing-up basin, quite frankly, I found quite ...
https://languagemoments.wordpress.com/2013/03/31/its-time-to-talk-about-tblt/
Great to see the great Phil Wade posting again on the blog. For anyone who doesn’t know the man, he’s an ELT Jack of all traits now teaching freelance in Rèunion in the Indian Ocean. This ...
https://languagemoments.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/dogme-reality/
“Be formless… shapeless, like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You pour water into a bottle; it becomes the bottle. You put water into a teapot; it becomes the teapot....
https://languagemoments.wordpress.com/2013/02/24/flexibility/