What kind of teacher are you? Are you in your students’ “Hall of Fame”?

The interest in the qualities of good teachers is not new. This post includes some thoughts on a study I conducted a few years ago with two groups of different learners (50 adults and 60 young learners between 11-13).  The adults who took part in this interim study were contacted by me directly. The young […]

How to make things fall apart – A behaviour model for creating incompetence

This short post includes my notes from a presentation I did some years ago at a local conference where I was specifically asked to present a workshop on good classroom management. At that time, I had been training a group of  directors of studies and had used  Gilbert’s (1978) excellent “Behavior Model for Creating Incompetence” […]