Richard Watson Todd

Why use case studies and how to use case studies to develop yourself.

Case studies are descriptions of situations. They usually include a brief history of how the current position developed and outline a problem which a key personality is facing. Although originally associated with the MBA and Law programmes at Harvard, case ...

Richard Watson Todd

How to deal with unexpected problems and the need for teachers.

Teaching was turning out much better than Jeremy had expected. Having finished university with a reasonable degree but not feeling like joining the rat race, he had decided to postpone making decisions about his long-term future by taking a year ...

Richard Watson Todd

Designing and adapting materials and teaching English for specific purposes.

Kim had been working at a private language school in a small town in Spain for nearly 18 months now, and planned to continue for another six months before she went back to the UK to look for something more ...

Richard Watson Todd

How teachers can simplify their language to make it understandable.

“All right, you lot. Now, what we’re going to do today is we’re gonna work on your listening, you know, how to get what people are talking about, how to spot what’s important, that sort of stuff. So, just check ...

Richard Watson Todd

Giving instructions and observing other teachers to help their development.

Twenty years in the same secondary school had turned Paolo into an automaton. For most of the time he had stuck to the tried and trusted methods of drilling, long grammar explanations and rote learning of word lists. Six months ago, ...