After returning from Toulouse and running my one hour workshop there, I was then able to do the same with another one of our courses for Teaching Assistants here in Moscow. Initially, the plan was just for the workshop to involve the teaching assistants but due to time constraints we included the teachers into the […]
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Practical Pedagogies 2015
Practical Pedagogies Conference was held on 15th to 16th October 2015 at the International School of Toulouse (IST). This was my first workshop held at an International Teachers Conference, and to say that I was looking forward to this event is probably an understatement. I have run many CPD events for both my own company […]
Roamer – Working with year 5
This work was part of a unit on instruction writing in English class. I have always noticed that instructional writing poses certain problems for children, even adults for that matter, as we are so used to doing an activity we often interpret or leave out parts within a sequence. For that reason I have always […]
Roamer – Working with EAL/ESL children
You will see on our project page further details about Roamer going to work with Russian children as well as links to resources on the Valiant Technologies Roamer page I first introduced the robot to my English as a Second Language group (ESL) as I wanted to see not just how they reacted to using […]
Blogging in Russia
Just a very quick update, the children in this school as yet have not had the opportunity to start blogging so myself and the year five teacher have set up class blogs. Here is the link to my year 4 class http://aisyear4.blogspot.ru/ I have also set up a school podcast here http://audioboo.fm/AtlanticDubrovka. I will add a link for […]
Teaching In Russia
Well as of this Saturday 26th April 2014 I will have been in Moscow a total of 15 days. I will not go into the reasons as to why a fairly large group of teachers where recruited to teach for Atlantic International School in Moscow but needless to say it has been quite an amazing […]