by Kaz Yamamoto and Julia Gardos
The role of non-native teachers is a much debated topic in the field EFL. (more…)
Month: July 2016
Randomisers
by Hannah Gurr and Katherine High
Tutors on our pre-sessional this year will now be familiar with Dylan Wiliam’s 2010 BBC2 documentary The Classroom Experiment. In it [from 7:21], he says:
The children who are answering everything you ask them are actually getting smarter – their IQs actually go up. And there are other children in the same classroom who are foregoing that opportunity to get smarter. So, if you are allowing children to volunteer to participate or not in your classroom, quite simply you are making the achievement gap bigger. (more…)