Category: PD Inspiration

The “Question Formulation Technique” is being used from kindergarten all the way through to higher education across all disciplines.  What is it?  And, how does...

I’ve been told that Scaffolding for Scaffolders is an odd name for a language teaching blog site.  And to any of you in the construction industry who may have b...

In 1993 Michael Lewis shook the foundations of the ELT industry with the release of The Lexical Approach.  In this seminal work, he suggested that practitioners...

For students to learn, they have to be paying attention.  When a student or group of students are ‘bored’ in class, minds wandering, looking out the...

“There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn ...