Pedagogy never grows old, it just gets rediscovered!

Hi everyone!

When I look at the experience of the colleagues  in this Winter course, it really touch me.  Frankly speaking I’m among the less experienced. But in this class every one is eager to share, and I can note that everyone is gaining something. Some tools to better the way we help people discover they capabilities in language learning. This class I considered as a class of the future, a class of newest tools, but it is also using some aptitude   of the past that we are reinvesting in the current technology trend for a better trained generation. I can see some class mates reaching deep in their energy to combine daily professional activities with professional development.  They are not going to change entirely , but they will enrich their way of teaching with new and more interesting strategies and activities. Activities and strategies integrating what people of this century use the most Information and Communication Technology. They acquire resources so that other can be happy to acquire knowledge and do it without difficulty.  Nice mission dear colleagues. And when I look back, i could never support those who think they are in the profession since decades and that they know too much about pedagogy, too much about how to give or that they are too busy to learn a new thing. I think that we learn by giving, we learn by teaching and to teach well, we need to be trained, we need to exchange practices. In my NICE country BENIN (West Africa, near Nigeria) there is a popular saying: ‘’we cook delicious soup in old pot’’.

 Nice week to you all!