Thursday, September 27, 2012

Presentation with Prof Icy Lee at the ESF Professional Development Day

'Digital Storytelling: What's in it for students? And teachers?'
Presented at the Professional Development Day of the English Schools Foundation (ESF).
Attended by 70+ English teachers from ESF secondary schools.

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Book 1 of a new coursebook series in China published

First book of a new coursebook series in China, of which I am a member of the writing team, has been published. The writing team is based at the Guangzhou Education Bureau. This new coursebook series is in support of the 2011 National English Curriulum for Schools. The sample coursebooks have been approved by the Ministry of Education in Beijing. The first book (for Primary 3, first term) has been published and is currently being used by 140,000 P3 children in GZ (this is the official coursebook). When the whole series is completed, it will be used by over 1 million schoolchildren in China!

Road Maps from Canva for showing the progress of a lesson

 In a TP lesson observation today, the teacher used a road map at the beginning of the lesson to give Ss an overview of the lesson. Then at ...