In this post, I’m going to write about something that I had no knowledge of until I started working at Sheffield University this year: Scholarship Circles (SC). “Er, what is an SC?” I hear you say. (Well, at any rate, that was my first question when met with the term for the first time!) Don’t […]
It’s a brand new term (well, sort, of it’s actually the third week of it now!), the second of our four terms here at the college, and today (Monday 21st January, though I won’t be able to publish this post on the same day!) we managed our first scholarship circle session of the term. For […]
It’s the last week of term, exam week, and we have managed to squeeze in a final scholarship circle meeting for the term. How amazing are we? š I also have no excuse not to write it up shortly afterwards – nothing sensitive content-wise and, for once in a way, I have a wee bit […]
Last time I blamed time and workload for the lack of updates, but this time the reason there is only one post representing four sessions is in part a question of time but more importantly a question of content. This will hopefully make more sense as I go on to explain below! (For more information […]
Time and workload have dictated that I combine two weekly scholarship sessions into one post, so this “double digest” is my write-up of sessions 3 and 4. (For more information about what scholarship circles involve, please look here and forĀ write-ups of previous scholarship circles,Ā here You might also be interested in session 1 and session 2 […]
Before we had time to turn around twice, Tuesday rolled around again and with it our weekly scholarship circle meeting, with its name and focus of “Giving formative feedback on student writing” (For more information about what scholarship circles involve, please look here and forĀ write-ups of previous scholarship circles,Ā here and to see what we discussed […]
Today, Tuesday 2nd October, was the inaugural meeting of the newly formed “Giving formative feedback on student writing” scholarship circle which will take place weekly on Tuesdays here at the USIC arm of the ELTC. (For more information about what scholarship circles involve, please look here and forĀ write-ups of previous scholarship circles,Ā here.) With a healthy […]
Today was the sixth session of our new scholarship circleĀ āTEFLising EAPā. (You can read more about what a scholarship circle is and what it doesĀ here.) ā Ā Yes, the sixth: the fifth was last week but Friday seems to have rolled round again before I’ve got round to writing it up. Life and work happened! The […]
Today was the fourth session of our new scholarship circleĀ āTEFLising EAPā. (You can read more about what a scholarship circle is and what it doesĀ here.) – Ā Yes, the fourth: the third was last week but I was buried under rather a large pile of essays so I didn’t have time to write it up. So […]
Today was the second session of our new scholarship circle āTEFLising EAPā. (You can read more about what a scholarship circle is and what it does here.) To quote from my write-up of the first session, The idea behind this one is that EAP lessons can get a little dry ā learning how to do […]
