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Customization: Can You Serve Too Much?
Serve your Client. But can you do too much? In an English class situation, I strongly believe that course content should be shaped to student needs as much, and as often as possible. Why? In my experience, the more a student’s class work is related to reality (what they do everyday in English) the easier...
How to Help Adult ESL students beat fear
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Adult ESL students, in my experience anyway, have multiple obstacles to beat in order to successfully learn a second language. (In this case, English.) They have schedules to deal with, deadlines, bosses, and coworkers to name a few. But the biggest, and often ugliest one, the fear of failure. (AKA: looking like a moron in...
Service Design: Is it all about Classroom work?
Could ESL student experience and success be improved if school/teacher invested more time in Pre and Post course preparation and followup? Just read an interesting post via Seth Goddin: Upstream and Downstream. The summary: By spending more time and money on pre and post contact with our clients, work results could be improved. We see...
Virtual ESL Classes
Being able to work from home and be an effective ESL teacher at the same time. Is that possible? I know from living in one of the largest cities in the world, Mexico City, that I have always dreamed of the day that I could skip out on the traffic, and get to class by...
Keep Proficiency Development Strategy Simple
Just read a great post over at Oxford University Press English Language teaching blog, and would like to share a quote which I think sums up the way great teachers should go about their class work. “The whole point of extensive reading — and how it achieves improvements in language proficiency — is that students read...
Planning and Serving your Student
Just came from a great post over at Micronarratives blog that has me thinking a big “Yes.” (Quality Management for Language Schools.) I really enjoyed what Watt had to say, and as a Language school owner/director, I find myself heavily challenged in this vital area. Quality service. Everywhere inside the company. That’s what it’s all...
Language Training can Boost Retention
Came across this short video and found it to be rather interesting. There are several points that I found to be of interest: 1) Sider explains how valuable language training is for retention purposes. (In Company setting, working with non English speaking workers.) In today’s economic environment, where companies are looking for ways to stimulate...
Communication as Successful ESL classroom
Reading through a book called “Success In English Teaching” by Paul Davies and Eric Pearse, so I’ll be posting about some of the ideas I’m encountering there. Defining Your Success as and English teacher: How do you measure success in your classroom? If your students are passing their exams, even attaining high marks - does...
How do you really meet student need today?
English class as I know it just isn’t enough. 3 hours a week isn’t close to what is needed for students to make progress with their English skills. In fact, it’s not even three hours. Students often arrive late, often have to leave early for meetings, or often need to cancel their class due to...
Lesson Design: Balance
You’ve probably heard the phrase “Too much of a good thing is a bad thing.” I just read a post that got me thinking a lot about my preferred teaching style which is strongly grounded in what the article would refer to as “Art.” My lessons tend to be creative and imaginative but, as the post...
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