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Ditow - do it the other way

11/7/2015

Creative Drawing/Writing Exercise

suggested by
Rakesh Bhanot

With this Haiku card of mine, the artist Magdolna Terray went from my words and drew a picture:

https://haikucards.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/haiku_whatido_web.jpg

You are all invited to do the opposite - to DITOW: do it the other way!

1. Draw a picture/doodle to depict or represent yourself (nonverbal)

2. Write something based on your drawing (verbal). Max. 17 syllables!

3. Share your creative efforts by 10 December by sending an email to:

creativity_group@yahoo.co.uk

A prize of one hundred pounds will be awarded to the best entry judged by:

Alan Maley
Malu Sciamarelli
Magdolna Terray
Rakesh Bhanot

(The judges reserve the right to withhold the awarding of the prize if the entries are not deemed to be 'creative'.)

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What we can learn from students: the role of empathy in language teaching by Csilla Járay-Benn

11/2/2015

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Looking back over 15 years of teaching mainly adult learners, the terms ‘tailoring’, ‘customizing’, ‘adapting’, or ‘individualizing’ the content and our methods of teaching English could lead us to question what we, as teachers, can learn from our learners and how this knowledge impacts our teaching. Using the learner not only as a content resource but also as a source of inspiration necessarily evokes empathy from the teacher and sheds new light on teaching models and on the role as a teacher, with a shift from the model of teaching a foreign language (or the learner) to the model of helping learners learn a foreign language. Empathy has been identified as the main source of an emerging society by Jeremy Rifkin, economist, sociologist and political advisor, who says: “The age of Reason is being eclipsed by the age of empathy”. Concrete examples and tips will help you adopt an empathic teaching model to prepare for an “empathic society” in the future.

- Csilla Járay-Benn

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What we can learn from students: the role of empathy in language teaching by Csilla Járay-Benn

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