Reading this brought back a vivid memory. I was a new teacher in Istanbul when I found Jazz Chants at the British Council Teachers' Centre. I still remember turning those pages and feeling like I'd discovered an oasis. We had so little to work with back then, and this was something that genuinely made the classroom come alive. Some things never get old.
Well put - "Some things never get old." Bringing back memories for me of the BC Centers - esp. one year I spent in Kyiv. I'd hide out there and read and read and read. English books, nobody there, nice couches ... But Jazz Chants work on many salient levels, maybe not for every class situation but if I think all teachers would benefit to give them a go.
Reading this brought back a vivid memory. I was a new teacher in Istanbul when I found Jazz Chants at the British Council Teachers' Centre. I still remember turning those pages and feeling like I'd discovered an oasis. We had so little to work with back then, and this was something that genuinely made the classroom come alive. Some things never get old.
Well put - "Some things never get old." Bringing back memories for me of the BC Centers - esp. one year I spent in Kyiv. I'd hide out there and read and read and read. English books, nobody there, nice couches ... But Jazz Chants work on many salient levels, maybe not for every class situation but if I think all teachers would benefit to give them a go.