{"id":1211,"date":"2017-01-15T13:51:37","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T13:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freelanceteacherselfdevelopment.wordpress.com\/?p=1211"},"modified":"2017-01-15T13:51:37","modified_gmt":"2017-01-15T13:51:37","slug":"the-line-between-hare-brained-and-useful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/2017\/01\/15\/the-line-between-hare-brained-and-useful\/","title":{"rendered":"The Line Between Hare-Brained and Useful"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nI’ve had this post going on in my head for a while and probably the catalyst for getting it out of my head and into pixels is Sandy Millin’s Incomplete Thoughts<\/i><\/a> post.
\nI was having a chat with a colleague yesterday and he said, “I don’t know where you get the time for all your ideas.”
\n“It’s a massive pain in the arse,” I replied, “because I can’t concentrate on other things when something pops up.”
\nI don’t know if this leads to a condition of not following things through properly, or even just dilettantism but a few things that have got me going all over the internet are:<\/p>\n

Open Badges for Accreditation of Some Kind<\/h2>\n

This blog being about development (ostensibly, though probably more my own), actually having evidence-based accreditation for continuing professional development (CPD) would be a good thing in a landscape of expensive qualifications, cheap qualifications that mean nothing (20-hour internet TEFL courses) and absolutely nothing at all. ITDi<\/a> provides this, with certificates available and whatnot, too. However, something that can also contribute to teacher-centred, teacher-led teacher development has bugged me for too long. Open Badges<\/a> seem to sort if fill a gap in that people sit in webinars for certificates but there’s no real proof that they didn’t just leave the laptop on and play games on their phone. How about an open-peer-reviewed bit of writing that helps contribute to the community? Keep your eyes open at #TBLTChat<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Modular Materials<\/h2>\n

Again, with my Task-Based hat on (which is a beautiful purple crushed-velvet and Kevlar deerstalker), and my ‘I hate coursebooks<\/a>‘ T-shirt on, how better to address a gap in materials availability than to actually get cracking and make some through refining them. Think less of a Minimum Viable Product than a ‘actually see if students react positively’ approach.<\/p>\n

A Co-Op (ad)Venture<\/h2>\n

I am still investigating the possibility of sorting out a Tokyo\/Kawasaki\/Yokohama-based co-op of language teachers. Yes, inspired by Serveis Linguistics Barcelona<\/a>. Viability? Time, Marc? It’s more the client liason that’s a problem but still something I’m looking into. Sometime in 2047.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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