Friday, August 20, 2010

more cuisenaire rods

Belgian inventor and primary school teacher, Georges Cuisenaire (1891-1976), published a book in 1952 called Les nombres en couleurs and the use of rods for both mathematics and language teaching (the Silent Way) developed by Cuisenaire and popularized by Caleb Gattegno. It later widely utilized by Maria Montessori to teach concepts of both mathematics and length.

Friday, August 13, 2010

A Refresher on ELT Methodology

Check out this website with plenty of useful information on functional ELT methodology. It serves as a at-a-glance refresher.


http://www.englishraven.com/methodology.html

Saturday, August 07, 2010

The English Teaching FORUM



The English Teaching Forum is a quarterly journal published by the U.S. Department of State for teachers of English as a foreign or second language. Over 82,000 copies of the magazine are distributed in more than 125 countries. This site contains articles from issues of English Teaching Forum dating back to 1993. To find a particular article or issue, visit past issues to find a particular article or issue.

htp://exchanges.state.gov/englishteaching/forum-journal.html