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Raising Expectations, Measuring Results
It was a great honour to be asked to present on student learning outcomes by OUP. I seized the chance to talk about how important expectations are, how raising expectations (of students, teachers, and institutions) is likely to be the key to improving English education in Japan, and how important effective assessment is. Of course I also talked about student learning outcomes and how useful the CEFR can be when thinking about our courses.
I had a great audience for this and thoroughly enjoyed the presentation.
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JALT 2010 in Nagoya
I will be presenting three times this year at the JALT National Conference in Nagoya, details as follows:
All You Can Read: the Extensive Reading Colloquium
Saturday 20th: 17:15 in room 1203 (sponsored by the Extensive Reading SIG)
Raising Expectations: Measuring Results
Sunday 21st: 13:00 in room 1102 (sponsored by OUP)
Phonics-based Reading Practice for Children
Sunday 21st: 17:05 in room 1103 (sponsored by englishbooks.jp)
Hope to see a lot of friends there!
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Niigata Teacher Seminar
I just got back from Niigata, where I was invited to present to a great group of teachers from local junior and senior high schools.
My topic was teaching reading and writing to junior and senior high school students, and you can see my presentation slides and notes below:
101111 Niigata Intro
101111 Niigata Reading for JSHS
101111 Niigata Writing for JSHS
101111 Niigata Notes
Thanks for a great day and good luck with your teaching!
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Oxford Reading Tree presentation
I presented at the Tokyo ETJ Expo yesterday, which was great. Lots of very good presenters, lots of keen teachers, lots of good content.
My powerpoint slides are available here in pdf format:
101107 ORT English through Stories
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Literal music videos -a fun homework assignment?
I was doing some research on Youtube the other day (heh) when I came across an interesting subculture. It seems there are quite a few people that enjoy redoing music videos so that the lyrics describe what is happening in the video. You can see one of my favourites below (the Smashing Pumpkins, doing a teenage angst song from my misguided youth):
I showed it to my daughter and she mentioned that it might be good to practice English with, as it is fairly understandable and has subtitles.
What do you think? There are hundreds of these things on Youtube. They might make a fun homework assignment or filler activity in class…