Special GUEST POST on 'Native Speakerism' in canım Türkiyem: TÜRKSE İSTEMEM...
Aydan ERSÖZ President, INGED - Ankara / TURKEY Hepinize merhaba. Çok sevdiğim ve saydığım bir meslektaşım olan Tony Gurr’un sayfasına...
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tonygurr
- Jul 13, 2018
- 2 min
What can I do for YOU?
...'revisions' that totally confused parents, students, teachers...even God herself!This is not how Ziya Hoca does busyness and his...
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tonygurr
- Jun 2, 2018
- 1 min
Corruption, Bribery & Graft in the Busyness of ELT...
'It skews the level playing field; it guarantees extra returns where none should have been had; it encourages the misallocation of...
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tonygurr
- Oct 22, 2017
- 2 min
So...What Exactly Should Curriculum Planning Look Like - for 2017/18? (Part 02)
Whoops!8 So, as I was saying – ELT has been using this ridiculous, ‘best practice’ model for curriculum-developing and syllabus-making...
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tonygurr
- Oct 21, 2017
- 2 min
How to Spot and ‘Nail’ an EDUfraud!
Lucky for us...they very rarely are!8 However, I did not really come up with any suggestions or solutions for how we can 'pop their...
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tonygurr
- Aug 15, 2012
- 7 min
Between a ROCK and a very HARD PLACE (Pt 05) - "The End" (or is it)?
Obviously, as Flash noted, not very much! It was a bit of a challenge for me to select an appropriate “opening image” for this post...
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tonygurr
- Jul 24, 2012
- 1 min
Between a ROCK and a very HARD PLACE…(Pt 04)
…when we talk about curriculum and pacing guides. We could probably argue the toss about this for days: The Flash! This is what...
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tonygurr
- Jul 23, 2012
- 4 min
Between a ROCK and a very HARD PLACE…(Pt 03)
This little image "captures" the one we looked at yesterday... ...the "pacing" dilemma that many "subject" or discipline teachers face....
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tonygurr
- Jul 23, 2012
- 1 min
Between a ROCK and a very HARD PLACE…(Pt 02)
Maybe, I need to go back to the “rant” to give a bit of context! It seems that whenever I meet a bunch of teachers and ask them about...
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tonygurr
- Jul 22, 2012
- 1 min
Between a ROCK and a very HARD PLACE…(Pt 01)
OK - straightforward enough! NOT... Getting to “deep” or “transformational” LEARNing requires that a school or college does a "great"...
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tonygurr
- Feb 28, 2012
- 1 min
Stop Stealing Dreams...(or, what are schools for?)
It’s a REALLY good read! The title, as you have probably gathered, is about allthingsEDUCATION (or, perhaps more specifically,...
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tonygurr
- Feb 23, 2012
- 3 min
Not all LEARNing is created equal!
Tony…get back to LEARNing! ...NOW! 8 It’s just that the Immortal Declaration ain’t true – we are not created equally. 8 8 OK…he’s back...
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tonygurr
- Jan 19, 2012
- 2 min
Educational Literacy...for the 21st Century
Blog! Well, actually it’s more like “draft-blog” because I realise I do not have my “image portfolio” with me – a “naked post” I cannot...
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tonygurr
- Dec 29, 2011
- 1 min
Looking (further) back to (really) see the FUTURE!
…active, discovery-based exploration and student creation will have replaced the “passive classroom model” …”seat and time-based...
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tonygurr
- Dec 19, 2011
- 1 min
Stop Talking…Start DOING!
#1 - Can a committee write a poem? #2 - Why we need more “Committed Sardines”… #3 - From Literacy to Fluency – 21st Century Fluencies,...
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tonygurr
- Nov 1, 2011
- 3 min
Getting FLUENT with the 5 FLUENCIES…
Can a committee write a poem? Why we need more “Committed Sardines”… From Literacy to Fluency – 21st Century Fluencies, that is… …and I...
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tonygurr
- Oct 18, 2011
- 5 min
FORGET Wiki - Try Asking YOURSELF!
No apologies for the… TODAY.... I promised to do a follow-up to yesterday's post on allthingscurriculum - or rather how to TAKE a...
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tonygurr
- Oct 17, 2011
- 2 min
Why more of us need to TAKE a LEARNing Perspective...
If only more politicians did the same!And, I ain't just talking about taking an interest in allthingsenvironmental... Most of us HAVE...
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tonygurr
- Oct 16, 2011
- 2 min
Do our schools speak LEARNing as a "first" or a "second" language?
Are our schools, colleges and universities LEARNing institutions or TEACHing institutions? Do our schools, colleges and universities...
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tonygurr
- Oct 9, 2011
- 1 min
What is EDUCATIONAL LITERACY? - another DVD Box-Set...
REAL LEARNing I did, of course, link this to the work of Guy Claxton and his call for educators to get busy building up the...
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