Episode I
- Theme: Human Dignity & Freedom
- Texts: Visible Learning (John Hattie); CLIL (Kay Bentley); Film in Action (Kieran Donaghy)
- Topics: teachers as modern time leaders, traditional vs new pedagogies
- Threads: teaching productive English skills; running film projects
- Tasks: getting started
- Transitions: visible learning and modern leadership (topical); using the film in foreign language instruction and film projects (task)
Teachers as modern time leaders
Have you ever heard about transformational leadership? It is about guiding through inspiration and enhancing followers' motivation, morale, and job performance through various mechanisms. In
Episode III
- Theme: Humanity & Democracy
- Texts: Blended learning in EFL: Adopting a Principled Approach to Adopting Technology (Clare Whittaker)
- Topics: four guiding questions to blended learning; eight key questions to integrating technology
- Threads: outcomes; added value; time& effort; syllabus; skills; location; role; resources
- Tasks: generating, evaluating and editing new learning and teaching content
- Transitions: scaffolding; differentiating; facilitating; demand-high teaching
Mindset and school achievement
Why do people differ in their assets and limitations? What is the meaning of success or failure? Is there a link between mindset and
What’s grit got to do with learning?
Gritty people usually fare better in life since they pursue their objectives with greater passion and perseverance than most of us do. The American