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Correct Less, Notice More
Feedback as Teaching Artistry Should teachers correct every mistake their learners make? It sounds like a simple question, but Tatiana Terekhova’s recent workshop showed why the answer is much more interesting than a simple yes or no. Her starting point … Continue reading
Engagement Is More Than an Activity: Creating Classrooms Learners Want to Join
Reflections from Fatimah Alsharif’s Teaching Artistry workshop on engaging learners When we talk about learner engagement, the conversation often turns quickly to activities: games, pair work, group work, technology or new ways of presenting language. These can certainly help. But … Continue reading
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The Human Work Before the AI Prompt
Purposeful homework teacher judgement and Teaching Artistry An AI tool can generate a worksheet in twenty seconds. The difficult question comes next: does this worksheet belong to this lesson, these learners and this moment in their learning? During an ITI … Continue reading
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How to Present an Effective Online PD Workshop
PRACTICAL TEACHER DEVELOPMENT A practical guide to turning a useful teaching idea into a focused, participatory and memorable online session The test of a successful workshop is not how much the presenter says. It is what participants think about, try, … Continue reading
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Part 3: Can Performative Skills Be Developed?
Part 3 Can Performative Skills Be Developed? If performative skills matter, the next question is obvious: how can they be developed? This is particularly important because discussions of presence, charisma, rapport or creativity can easily become unhelpful. They can make … Continue reading
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Part 2: Understanding Performative Skills in Education
Part 2: Understanding Performative Skills in Education If we want to defend the importance of the human teacher, it is not enough to say that teaching is “human”, “relational” or “creative”. These words matter, but they can also remain vague. … Continue reading
Part 1: What Can Human Teachers Do That AI Cannot?
Teaching Presence in the Age of AI: Developing Performative Skills in Teacher Education Over the last couple of years, many conversations about AI and education have focused on what AI can do. It can generate lesson plans.It can produce explanations.It … Continue reading
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FROM TEACHER TO TRAINER
Effective Feedback Starts with Questions More than 240 people registered for ITI’s recent From Teacher to Trainer webinar, with over 70 teachers joining us live. The level of interest suggested that many experienced teachers are thinking about how they might … Continue reading
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Does your classroom need a Dragon?
Wake Up the Room, Wake Up Your Voice: Breathing Activities for Teachers Teaching needs energy. Energy comes through breathing. There are moments when a class needs lifting: the point after lunch, the final hour of the day, a difficult transition … Continue reading
Breathing Techniques for Teachers: Enhance Your Teaching Presence
Teaching Artistry Tip: Breathe to better teaching Everything starts with a breath. When you enter a classroom breathless, tense or rushed, that appears in your voice. You may speak too quickly, over-explain, raise your volume unnecessarily, or sound less available … Continue reading
