It’s one of those things. You go through your entire TEFL course learning how to do things the TEFL way, then you start teaching and fall into old habits (sometimes bad ones!). This sort of thing happens to everyone, so, Sandy decided another Workshop was in order!
At nine o’clock in the morning, 16 past TEFL students took their places again to work for a full day in the TEFL Refresher Workshop at Langahead on 4 August.
Beate and Kate teamed up and did Demo lessons, which brought back floods of memories. We then, had a general discussion and Sandy was amazed at how much everyone did remember! Yay. A bit more theory was revisited, including Brock Brady’s “If you aren’t making mistakes, you aren’t trying hard enough!” – an address he gave to the SETI 20th Anniversary last year and to Langahead TEFL students in September last year.
Brock Brady is a leading figure in TESOL in the US and it was a great privilege to have him at our school.
Monday, August 6, 2007
So who’s off to see the world?
Mike Wood left for South Korea last Thursday. He is already teaching English to teenagers - yikes! Yes, that’s kind of what he said. No course materials, no syllabus and 35 in the class – yiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiikes again! He’ll survive and do as well as he did on the course. And that’s what Langahead is for: support, even at a distance. Thank heavens for Internet.
Zak Wood is leaving for China on 11 August. The expression 'cool as a cucumber' has no meaning to him right now. Good luck, Zak and keep in touch.
Eras Gous is hanging around South Africa for a bit longer, but he has his sights set on Japan, Thailand, or South Korea but at the moment we have the pleasure of his company with us at Langahead.
James Walters is leaving for Thailand in the very near future. We hope he'll keep us all updated!
Watch this space!
Zak Wood is leaving for China on 11 August. The expression 'cool as a cucumber' has no meaning to him right now. Good luck, Zak and keep in touch.
Eras Gous is hanging around South Africa for a bit longer, but he has his sights set on Japan, Thailand, or South Korea but at the moment we have the pleasure of his company with us at Langahead.
James Walters is leaving for Thailand in the very near future. We hope he'll keep us all updated!
Watch this space!
TEYL (Teaching Young Learners) Workshop
With many of our TEFL graduates leaving SA and going to teach CHILDREN in Foreign Countries, Sandy Emslie decided a workshop was needed.
So, twelve tired, interested and keen former TEFLs gathered again for The Young Learners workshop which took place 2 weeks ago (Wednesday 25 July). It was enjoyed by all, and greatly appreciated as well. We spent a fast-moving 3 hours revisiting some of things we had already covered in our course and then looked more closely at what it means to teach young learners. Finally, everyone had to choose a theme and devise ideas for some lessons.
A great evening! Thanks to everyone. See you at the next one.
So, twelve tired, interested and keen former TEFLs gathered again for The Young Learners workshop which took place 2 weeks ago (Wednesday 25 July). It was enjoyed by all, and greatly appreciated as well. We spent a fast-moving 3 hours revisiting some of things we had already covered in our course and then looked more closely at what it means to teach young learners. Finally, everyone had to choose a theme and devise ideas for some lessons.
A great evening! Thanks to everyone. See you at the next one.
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