World Peace Through Talk Time

If Talk Time facilitators and participants take the role of learner when they enter the conversation, all will leave with a better understanding of other cultures and a sense of wonder at the beauty of humanity.

The miracle of pair work

          The Talk Time facilitators I know are fascinating, well-read, well-traveled and highly educated characters.  They’re brimming with personality and drama. They can take an obscure word and act it out, make it sing or walk it like a dog.  They’re full of thrilling and hilarious stories.

        All of this makes it extremely hard to stay quiet, so [...]

March 21st, 2010 | Category: Tips | 2 comments

TalkTime is easy??

A new volunteer joined me at Talk Time.  We had never met before, only talked on the phone.   Beforehand, I tried to describe what kind of ESL teaching she would be doing,

“You’ll be facilitating student conversation, listening and asking questions.”
“Oh! It sounds like a Talk Time.”
“It IS a Talk Time.”
“Oh, that’s easy.”

I was a shade skeptical.  I’ve known wonderful [...]

March 13th, 2010 | Category: What it is | Leave a comment