Richard Watson Todd

Seating arrangements, getting learners to participate, and how to teach vocabulary.

Gill liked horseshoes. With up to 15 learners, Gill could feel close to the learners by arranging them in a semi-circular horseshoe. She felt far better with this arrangement than with either rows and columns or leaving the learners to ...

Richard Watson Todd

Planning, being flexible in the classroom, and dealing with the unexpected.

Mustafa was proud of his BEd. Now in his first job as a teacher, he had great plans for helping his students learn English, and he knew that what he had learnt from his BEd would help him reach this ...

Richard Watson Todd

Discipline problems and dealing with cultural differences.

Four weeks ago, eight instructors from the Takahashi Language Centre (TLC) in Tokyo were assigned to an intensive English programme taking place at a training centre for a large Japanese company producing radar equipment for ships. The programme was scheduled ...