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
- 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
- May 27, 2013
- 3 min
For the Times...they are a-Changin’ (...still)!
BUT, we do have a great many “best practices” because of this tradition…8 This was one of my very first blog posts (back in February...
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tonygurr
- May 27, 2013
- 2 min
FIXing Hazırlık...(the Postscript)
Some of you might be thunking...a postscript? What the heck for? 8 That last post gave us so many good best practices to get our teeth...
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tonygurr
- May 25, 2013
- 2 min
FIXing Hazırlık… (Pt 03 of 03)
Come on, guys! Give me a break...for crying out loud! 8 I had wanted to stick with Arthur - but my in-box overfloweth...and not with...
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tonygurr
- May 23, 2013
- 4 min
FIXing Hazırlık… (Pt 02 of 03)
Start where you ARE. Use what you HAVE. Do what you CAN. If ever there was a recipe (or ‘magic bullet’...even) for ‘fixing’ something...
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tonygurr
- May 21, 2013
- 3 min
FIXing Hazırlık… (Pt 01 of 03)
It’s a bit ‘rude’, innit?8 BUT...that’s exactly the question (OK…I used the term ‘smarty-pants’ to convey the stress and intonation...
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tonygurr
- May 14, 2013
- 1 min
So...Hazırlık is BROKEN! - Time to play...
...where to begin - with allthingshazırlık? 8 Even though we human beings have been playing this game for years...and (in education) we...
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tonygurr
- May 12, 2013
- 3 min
Could it be our understanding of 'Quality'...that is BROKEN, perhaps?
This is only natural! Look at all the wonderful communications we find on their web-sites, the messages stuck on the side of buses and...
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tonygurr
- May 9, 2013
- 2 min
Is it our 'Curriculum Thunking' wot is BROKEN?
...and Hazırlık (ELL Prep Schools)! 8 The two conferences I noted in Part 01 of this post were, in fact, a breath of fresh air - we...
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tonygurr
- May 8, 2013
- 2 min
Is Hazırlık BROKEN?
Hazırlık I am, of course, talking about the university-level ELL or ELT 'prep programmes' we offer here in canım Türkiyem…so go to...
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tonygurr
- Dec 21, 2012
- 3 min
The LISTENing Educator...
GUEST POST by Laurence Raw 8 8 It’s amazing what can be learned from isolated conversations. 8 I was talking to three separate sets of...
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tonygurr
- Dec 12, 2012
- 2 min
We ARE how we TEACH...
See that? He said "his LEARNing"... ..."proof"...definitive proof...that he had an illegitimate "son"...during his stay in the UK! 8 The...
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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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