Posts Tagged ‘Korea’

“Special” tricks Part 2 — repetition (by David Deubelbeiss)

Jul 15th, 2010

Part of the series: Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know If you missed the first part of this article, start here Previously, I outlined how much I’d been changed as a teacher by the realization that language students would benefit from a lot of the instructional practices of “special” needs teachers. Accommodations and modifications of [...]

Formative Assessment (by Matthew Spira)

Jun 2nd, 2010

by Barbara.

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Part of the series: Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know My intention when I started writing this post was to discuss and make specific suggestions about “formative” assessment techniques for use with young learners in the classroom or other educational context. Formative assessment covers the range of diagnostic things a teacher, tutor, mentor or parent [...]

30 teachers from 16 countries (and counting!)

Apr 19th, 2010

by Barbara.

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Earlier this month, I awoke to a lovely message telling me that Teaching Village was the TEFL Site of the Month. While always thrilled to get an award of any kind, I’m a bit embarrassed to admit that I wasn’t sure what this award was for (I’m still sort of new to this blogging business). [...]

What I’ve Learned from My PLN (November 14, 2009)

Nov 15th, 2009

by Barbara.

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(Note: If this is the first post you’ve read in this series, and you’re mystified by the PLN acronym, start with What’s a PLN, anyway?) The seven guest authors for the “Front Lines of EFL” series have been the members of my personal learning network I’ve shared with most intensively in the past few weeks, [...]

Teaching middle school students in South Korea (by Dayle Major)

Oct 7th, 2009

by daylemajor.

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Part of the series: Stories from the Front Lines of EFL I teach in a rural area of South Korea at a couple of middle schools: one is located about 10 minutes about outside the city and has about 190 students whom I see three days a week; the other school is in the countryside [...]