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RufusW · Joined: 14 Jun 2008 Location: Busan

Hey,

Does anyone 'Power Teach' here or use 'Power Teaching' techniques?

I was pointed towards it at EPIK orientation and it seems the logic behind it is sound. I teach elementary and if I'm prepared to be a lot more active it should be effective. It seems students 'teaching' each other is a big part of it and I suppose that's impossible in an ESL environment, especially at lower levels....

Anyway, anyone use these techniques?

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

I've been thinking of ways to try to use Chris Biffles power teaching methods into my lessons, but it's the having them explain it to each other part that could get quite difficult to do with L2. For it to work I think you'd have to pair up a stronger student with a weaker one and make a seating plan based on abilities.

I'd know a bit more about taking it in the direction of EFL but I was kicked off a site that Biffle actually posts on for insulting the fucking Yanks, God damn Christian fundamentalists, and shit-for-brains gun owners of America.

RufusW · Joined: 14 Jun 2008 Location: Busan

Bump with some examples....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBeWEgvGm2Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frwP9f85TnU&feature=related

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

Can you find a single example of someone applying this to language acquisition. It seems an awful lot like the Special Olympics for people with normal IQs, but then that would go for a lot of 'conversational English' teaching techniques in Korea.

poet13 · Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 10:04 pm Post subject:

I think this would work well with kindy. I only watched a few videos, but it seems a lot like peer teaching on a sugar high.