Keine Lehrkraft kann garantieren, dass Lernen passiert. Entscheidend ist, welche Lernumgebung ein Tool schafft: Wird Denken ausgelagert, oder bleiben Schülerinnen und Schüler aktiv bei der Sache? Ein reflektierender Text über Lern-Design, Ownership und Evaluation, jenseits von Hype und Angst.
Many parents book a trial lesson with good intentions. You want a feel for it: Does the person fit? Does your child feel understood? Does it all sound competent?
But with the English Abitur, a good feeling does not automatically lead to a good result. Points are not earned because someone “explains well,” but because a text becomes visibly better – clearer, more structured, more controlled. And that is exactly what you can test surprisingly well in a trial lesson, if you don’t assess the personality, but the product of the session.
Viele Eltern buchen eine Probestunde in guter Absicht. Man will ein Gefühl bekommen: Passt die Person? Fühlt sich das Kind verstanden? Klingt das Ganze nach Kompetenz?
Nur: Beim Englisch-Abitur ist ein gutes Gefühl nicht automatisch ein gutes Ergebnis. Punkte entstehen nicht dadurch, dass jemand „gut erklärt“, sondern dadurch, dass ein Text sichtbar besser wird – klarer, strukturierter, kontrollierter. Und genau das lässt sich in einer Probestunde überraschend gut prüfen, wenn man nicht die Persönlichkeit testet, sondern das Produkt der Stunde.
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This episode explores fitness for men over 40 – as it relates to strength training, cardiovascular training, cardiovascular health and fasting.
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With somewhat new sensibilities owing of course in part to – a sense of gratitude she feels for her recently completed MBA at the ESCP Business school – Marcia helps me today to portray for you, a more positive outlook on matters relating to sustainability. The things that are in fact within our reach – the VALUES that we as people are actively adopting now.
In this Episode we talk a little about the history of the sustainability movement, its incorporation into modern business models, newer concepts such as impact investing, as an ever more interesting emerging solution – that takes the environment, people, and communities into account. What does it really mean, to move capital, people, and knowledge to where the problems really are and what are the benefits being realized now? What are the opportunities that present themselves – today – as we approach the ultimate ideal of sustainable living?
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Join me – on a most unusually uplifting, journey of discipline, and self-healing. Series of short podcast episodes documenting [how it feels] to do a water-fast for 20 days (now 21) – no food at all, looking and feeling fantastic. We have been trained by many “interests” to associate eating, and “the feast” with care, love, good intentions and wellness – when to the contrary, it could be “the controlled fasted-state” that will set us free – from many ills.. Episodes will appear below on this page as they are published. You can also follow the show from anywhere, if you don’t want to miss it, and if you want more, sign-up now – for the Private Listeners’ Group.
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As we bid farewell to 2023 and welcome 2024, let’s embrace the changes and challenges. Remember, every end marks a new beginning. Let’s step into 2024 with hope, determination, and the willingness to grow.
Thank you for being part of this story this year and as we welcome the new year and embrace each new chapter with enthusiasm and curiosity – I eagerly anticipate hearing from you =) Until our next tale unfolds, keep dreaming, keep exploring, and keep weaving your own stories.
Happy New Year, and see you in 2024!
Weekend Program: “Maerchen mal anders” – fluent.iAntonio.media
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Episode 88 was recorded in class and serves as a first training model to help the course participants to get a grasp of the basics, of what is involved in podcast production.
Episode 90 (CENSORED) is a direct follow-up to the previously published episode 88 – and is a compilation of three conversations and one monolog on early -childhood education. Topics include:
The overall project associated with this course focusses on values and attitudes – and promises to explore many media forms such as audio-podcasting, photography, videography, text and even print production and webpage-building to name a few.
The project aims to emphasise, through hands-on involvement and co-creation so to speak – how these media forms can be used to enrich our message – as it relates to early-childhood education, and education as a whole.
“Medienpädagogik” is a term that featured prominently during the course – and is itself a diverse topic. The aim of these projects however was to encourage hands-on involvement in the co-creation process. To gather first-hand experience in coordination, team-work and challenges involved, in the final production of a media product that effectively enriches and transports our message – as it relates to early-childhood education.
Those values and attitudes mentioned are as diverse as the contributors themselves – an attribute that that only serves to foster inclusiveness, relatability humanness of our discourse. Without further ado I’d like to express my gratitude to all the contributors – and cordially invite you to let yourself be inspired by the episodes.
Our esteemed first guest (episode 88) for this series of productions – is Ms Lilli Limonius, who qualifies her insight with a rich tapestry of stories and experiences that have helped to shape her career – and still drive her calling and professional practice as a teacher.
We go on to speak about some of the specific values and attitudes that help both teachers and students to succeed. And finish off our 45-50 minute show, with some questions from the course participants on:
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Impulse
Voice,
Hope in spite of it all,
Politics as an attempt to outsource accountability,
The satisfaction the calling.
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat – By Edward Lear
The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea-green boat,
They took some honey, and plenty of money,
Wrapped up in a five-pound note.
The Owl looked up to the stars above,
And sang to a small guitar,
“O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are,
You are,
You are!
What a beautiful Pussy you are!”
Pussy said to the Owl, “You elegant fowl!
How charmingly sweet you sing!
O let us be married! too long we have tarried:
But what shall we do for a ring?”
They sailed away, for a year and a day,
To the land where the Bong-Tree grows
And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood
With a ring at the end of his nose,
His nose,
His nose,
With a ring at the end of his nose.
“Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling
Your ring?” Said the Piggy, “I will.”
So they took it away, and were married next day
By the Turkey who lives on the hill.
They dined on mince, and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,
The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.
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Bonus episode for International Podcast Day.
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Ian Antonio Patterson again – coming to you for another extra ordinary episode. There are essentially three things that I want to say today – which include some important changes regarding how I do my shows also in response to the rise of Ai among other things, how you are invited to interact with the show, and last but by no means least an invitation to you to join me – on a most unusually uplifting, journey of discipline, and self-healing.
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If learning and creativity are both driven by curiosity, shouldn’t they complement each other, towards facilitating an ideal learning state, and how that can be achieved in a natural way?
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Julius Esser – Works – Special thanks for generously sharing your thoughts Julius.
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Today’s episode looks at some of the things that make the essential difference, as we approach achieving a well-grounded feeling of confidence, sovereignty, and fluency using a foreign language. The episode today, in and of itself will show you, one way that uniquely defines the authentic lived human experience, as opposed to the artificial one. From the point of view of a well-practiced Educator – we will be looking at some of the things that may in fact help to differentiate us as human beings, working living and thriving – also within an Ai driven paradigm – but no worries Ai is not what the episode is about it’s about you.
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Feelings feature prominently – again – not to be discounted because feelings form one aspect that will in fact help to differentiate us as human beings within what I call an Ai driven paradigm. I do hope you enjoy the episode, and if you like the somewhat more colourful, and even more inclusive flavour of “Life is Feeling – Counting the Ways” – do feel free to subscribe from anywhere.
As an added bonus for your troubles, there is a little JAMAICAN interpretation of this unusual twist just for you – right after the jingle.
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I put it to you personally – what image comes to mind when you hear words like diversity and inclusion? Did you realize that you can also quickly become a minority in many ways – one example is when you are the only one who speaks with a strange accent.
The English Coach Podcast is still about enriching the adult learning experience, in a fun and inclusive way – especially through featuring exemplary true to life conversations with real people and activities. Sometimes however the nature of the topics sidesteps the realm of adult education in the traditional sense, and for that reason I have also started “Life is Feeling – Counting the Ways” – that invites listeners to take a moment to be awake to the world, to explore diverse values attitudes and experiences, that help us to think more critically more inclusively – and to help us make better sense of life through different lenses.
I love Independent Podcasting – that’s why I have been doing it since 2019.
If you are living in a place that allows you the freedom to share your voice globally – use it wisely. And use the media (and access) at hand to UPLIFT others. As an English trainer and a self-styled pragmatic student of human behaviour and the world – I can tell you that the need to address “diversity” as a thing and “inclusion” stems from “isims” of all kinds, that we create to express status, and entitlement to privilege and resources over others. Bob Marley aptly called them “isim schisms”. There are many such words, some of which I have also been known to carry around… Not so much any more. Any word ending with the suffix “ism” speaks to a willingness to exclude and disregard an entire ‘other’ group. That’s not what I am about here there or anywhere. (Follow-up series on “isms” in sister show – Life is Feeling – Counting the Ways – Series here)
Naturally we are all free to decide for ourselves what we are against, as I am mostly against all “isms” – but one thing that I am for is “equality” as an ideal – without the need to talk about it too much – but by simply living a reality that I imagine – that is why I run my shows the way I do.
Guests featured on my shows are from – Jamaica, Germany, Sweden, Afghanistan, Netherlands, the Ukraine, UK, USA, Trinidad and Tobago, France, Russia, Canada, Ghana, India, the Philippines, Greece, North Korea, Guatemala, to name a few..
Professions featured, include Teachers, Coaches, Entrepreneurs of all flavour, Engineers, Medical Doctors, other Doctors, Students, Software developers, Musicians, Authors – the list goes on…
As you might have guessed – I am very proud of my shows, and I am happy to be able to share it with you. As usual, feel free to use the feedback channels that are available on both my show pages.
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If you like what you heard – the only thing I would ask you to do is to share it with a friend.
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How can your story stand out against that of the typical everyday influencer, and do you want that at all? What are the benefits and value of expressing your own voice humbly as it may – within a public forum? And who is this proverbial devilish child?
It’s a short one today but if you are interested – do stick around to find out… This episode today is only a small part of another ( Life is Feeling – Counting the Ways – Episode 8 ) and offers perspective on the notion of “influencer” vs. “inspirator” and what these terms mean to some people. It explores the act of pursuing self-improvement – through one particular creative endeavour – and sharing of these – generously in a non-pretentious and non-moralizing way.
“I love to be out in the world, over the years I’ve written 4 books about my experiences – one of them twice, first in German, then in English: “Begegnung mit dem Schamanen/ Encounter with the Shaman“, followed by “Sundance“; and “Nur Mut” ”- all of them first person accounts, and generally positive.” Angeliks Hansen – 26.11.2022
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In this episode we begin to explore love, through the lens of being seen, respected and in some contexts idolized. A perspective that posits the self as the source of pivotal reflection – acceptance of self, modesty, and articulating proportionate poise in the knowledge of, and gratitude for the perfect imperfection that defines us – in just as much as it defines others.
But how is satisfaction with oneself really perceived by others – and to what extent is it accepted or frowned on in private, professional, and socio-economic circles?
We discuss self-reflection, its impact on the expression of authority, and earning respect within this context through choosing, shaping, and conveying your own values with enough humility to accept critic. Fatherliness and its effect on the teaching practice is broached, together with its influence on how love plays out within a constellation of strict rules.
All from the wisdom of our own experiences, we look at recruiting help when needed, and moving towards find help or solutions together, even from a place of authority – which then prepares us for part two in this series of conversations – approaching the “Language of Power”.
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