I’ve always wanted to live on an island.
Now I do.
And what’s better than living on an island?
Living on a secret island.
Why is it secret?
Because I’m not going to tell you where it is – ha!
Merhaba
Your teacher is traveller, a nomad, a wanderer, a peripatetic….
In other words, I am internationally homeless.
This month I am in Turkey.
I was in Istanbul.
Istanbul is exciting and has wonderful food and cafes on every street.
But alas, it is also noisy.
So I hopped on a ferry and now I’m on a quiet island until I go back to the U.S. to visit family for Christmas.
Your Turn To Move
When I meet a non-native speaker and tell him/her I’m an English teacher, usually the response I get is, “Oh, I need lessons.”
What they have in mind is, I need to sit in a classroom… I need a teacher to tell me what to say… I need to do homework… etc. etc.
But that’s not what I do. That’s not how I teach.
I teach my students how to MOVE THE CLASSROOM.
I show them they don’t need a language school.
I show them they don’t need homework.
I show them they definitely don’t need more grammar rules.
So what does it mean, “Move the classroom”?
I’ll tell you what it means to me.
But first, I’d like to read your thoughts.
What does “Move the classroom” mean to you?
Can you guess?
Have YOU moved YOUR classroom?
What was your experience?
Leave a comment below, let me know, and we’ll continue this discussion tomorrow.
I have participated in several online classess from different locations. It was very convenient
I think “Move the classroom” would be change the method you learn English – choose to learn English talking to people, native English speakers or not, and not in a classroom making only gramatical exercises. This is the way to get rid of a stuck when you reach a level but you see that you do not make progress any more, and also listining and reading English texts.
But change the classroom is an expression or a methaphore?
Enjoy your stay on the island!
Exactly! And is it a metaphor or an expression… well, since I just invented it, I guess it’s not an expression (something people commonly say). But it’s not really a metaphor either (a comparison without “like” or “as”). I guess it’s… a Vigism!
The start for my mooving classrooms was in the pandemic. Even if at the beginning we were confined in the houses, later when we could travel again, my English classrooms were mooving with me. I could enter the virtual classes from every point of univers I had internet. And nowadays internet is everywhere. Good job, Ryan!
I started learning english at medical university. I took english lesson 4hour/week 2 year in the amphy with 200 student. I like learning lenguage. I read books. After 2 years I attend english courses for 1-2 month in summer holidays. 33 years passed begening of learning english. Already I am going to learning. I can say that I improved it myself. when I was talking I dont think but sometime I can not remember easy words and I make simple mistakes. Listening and reading are important but to get good school education is need. Thank you Mr Vig for to ask our opinion. İbrahim from Aydin/TURKEY
You figured it out!
In my opinion, the sentence “move the classroom” means: leave it, go away and start doing English in another way, more effectively. For example, be a member of Mr. Ryan’s Power word academy. I moved the classroom also thanks to covid restrictions. When my classical English course was banned, I started finding an alternative. I knew that to stop doing English meant to forget very soon everything I had learned.
Excellent advice!
Hello I am Miriam from Malta, I would like to improve English , I went privat lessons alot of time but I remained the same , what can I do ?