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		<title>This blog will self-destruct in 10 seconds (OK, days&#8230;)</title>
		<link>http://teachertrainingunplugged.wordpress.com/2013/03/20/this-blog-will-self-destruct-in-10-seconds-ok-days/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Gaughan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is just a short note to let you all know that I will be deleting this blog in ten days. The reason is that some time ago I created teachertrainingunplugged.com and now that I&#8217;ve settled in over there, the continued existence of this blog, which I no longer update, is unnecessary. Also, it is [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=teachertrainingunplugged.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12293747&#038;post=856&#038;subd=teachertrainingunplugged&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Setting off for pastures new&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://teachertrainingunplugged.wordpress.com/2012/08/04/setting-off-for-pastures-new/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2012 19:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Gaughan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My blog has lived with the WordPress people for a little over two years now, and while we we have got on well and I have got used to how they like to keep their place neat and tidy, I have recently started to yearn for a place of my own &#8211; somewhere with a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=teachertrainingunplugged.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12293747&#038;post=850&#038;subd=teachertrainingunplugged&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Parachute training for teachers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2012 08:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Gaughan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Training ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[celta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teacher education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever learnt to sky-dive?

If you have, you may recall receiving this instruction...

"Immediately after you pull the rip cord, shout out at the top of your lungs ONE THOUSAND, TWO THOUSAND, THREE THOUSAND - CHECK!!!!

When you shout CHECK!, tilt your head back and look above your head.

If you see your parachute canopy opening, relax and enjoy the ride.

If you don't, reach for your reserve rip cord and pull it.

Repeat.

If you see your parachute canopy opening, relax and enjoy the ride.

If you don't, relax anyway, because it will all be over before you know it."

Macabre as the punchline is, there is actually a great deal of sense in this short lesson - both for novice sky-divers and for teachers of all levels of experience.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=teachertrainingunplugged.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12293747&#038;post=825&#038;subd=teachertrainingunplugged&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My first guest bloggers &#8211; my students</title>
		<link>http://teachertrainingunplugged.wordpress.com/2012/07/26/my-first-guest-bloggers-my-students/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 08:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Gaughan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today I unexpectedly had the opportunity to cover a teaching practice slot on our CELTA course. As I was watching one of my trainee teachers working with a recording of a book-club discussion about Dan Brown&#8217;s The Da Vinci Code, I started to think about what I could do next with the student group [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=teachertrainingunplugged.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12293747&#038;post=836&#038;subd=teachertrainingunplugged&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Question: should I write a book or not?</title>
		<link>http://teachertrainingunplugged.wordpress.com/2012/07/24/question-should-i-write-a-book-or-not/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Gaughan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[low materials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[materials-light]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teacher education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone recently messaged me to encourage me to publish a book of low-resource ideas for initial language teacher training. I think I would like to write such a book (when I get the time, that is!), but I would hate to do it if the world doesn&#8217;t seem to want something like that with the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=teachertrainingunplugged.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12293747&#038;post=818&#038;subd=teachertrainingunplugged&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Going for the jugular in the language classroom</title>
		<link>http://teachertrainingunplugged.wordpress.com/2012/07/20/going-for-the-jugular-in-the-language-classroom/</link>
		<comments>http://teachertrainingunplugged.wordpress.com/2012/07/20/going-for-the-jugular-in-the-language-classroom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 11:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Gaughan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Training Philosophy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Got Blood used under a Creative Commons licence from Drury Drama (Lee Radlin) Before I get started, let me put a few things on the record. I want the teachers I train to be bloody in tooth and claw when it comes to dealing with language. I want the teachers I train to sink their [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=teachertrainingunplugged.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12293747&#038;post=804&#038;subd=teachertrainingunplugged&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Learning to listen</title>
		<link>http://teachertrainingunplugged.wordpress.com/2012/07/18/learning-to-listen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Gaughan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Training ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Training Philosophy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I've been thinking about listening skills a lot since we decided to "unplug" our CELTA course back in 2009.  Listening skills development is certainly not a new or novel topic; what is perhaps unusual about my preoccupation is that it hasn't been the students' listening skills that I've been thinking about, but the teachers'...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=teachertrainingunplugged.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12293747&#038;post=787&#038;subd=teachertrainingunplugged&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Punching your weight in the language classroom</title>
		<link>http://teachertrainingunplugged.wordpress.com/2012/07/14/punching-your-weight-in-the-language-classroom/</link>
		<comments>http://teachertrainingunplugged.wordpress.com/2012/07/14/punching-your-weight-in-the-language-classroom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2012 11:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Gaughan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Training Philosophy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ever got the feeling that your teaching doesn't have the impact on your learners that you would like? Want to knock them out with your teaching?  Maybe you need to learn a few lessons from a boxer.  This new post is all about learning to punch your weight in class: http://wp.me/pPAaf-c1 <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=teachertrainingunplugged.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12293747&#038;post=745&#038;subd=teachertrainingunplugged&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Post: Breaking The Law In The Language Classroom (On Phil Wade&#8217;s blog)</title>
		<link>http://teachertrainingunplugged.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/guest-post-breaking-the-law-in-the-language-classroom-on-phil-wades-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Gaughan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can check out my guest post on a blog belonging to the Mighty, Mighty Phil Wade by following this link: Breaking The Law In The Language Classroom &#8211; Anthony Gaughan It&#8217;s just me getting all self-righteous about the wanton lack of respect for copyright in our photocopy-addicted profession &#8211; and some classic 80s heavy [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=teachertrainingunplugged.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12293747&#038;post=741&#038;subd=teachertrainingunplugged&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry and the Art of Teaching Practice</title>
		<link>http://teachertrainingunplugged.wordpress.com/2012/07/07/poetry-and-the-art-of-teaching-practice/</link>
		<comments>http://teachertrainingunplugged.wordpress.com/2012/07/07/poetry-and-the-art-of-teaching-practice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2012 11:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Gaughan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Training ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Training Philosophy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Have you forgotten the way to my hut? Each evening, I wait for the sound of your footsteps But they are never there. I heard this haiku translation (or something close to it) in Berlin several years ago during a workshop on Big Words, Small Grammar by Scott Thornbury. I am not sure why, but [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=teachertrainingunplugged.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12293747&#038;post=719&#038;subd=teachertrainingunplugged&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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