Download - Beyond ELT
“Beyond ELT”[How to Revitalise our Teaching]
By Nick Michelioudakis
I could use that…
• Getting people to vote• Results: 61.5% - 86.7%!• Commitment and consistency• Moral: Ask people
The Law of Diminishing Returns
Body Language
• An ordinary market survey…• Results: 40% - 70!• The importance of touch• Moral: Touching increases compliance
Management
• Brasilata’s ‘inventors’• Results: in 2008 alone - 134,846 ideas!• Active involvement • Moral: Active involvement = high
productivity and motivation
Marketing
• What is wrong with cake mixtures?• Why don’t we ask the customers?• The problem…• The solution…
Marketing
• What is wrong with cake mixtures?• Why don’t we ask the customers?• The importance of ownership• Moral: Tweak things to give people a feeling
of ownership
Behavioural Economics
Behavioural Economics
Behavioural Economics
• A stake by any other name…• Results: higher demand (27%) & satisfaction• Expectations colour our experience• Moral: ‘Sell’ what you have to offer
Social Psychology• Tidy kids – an oxymoron?• The two classrooms• The toy in the plastic wrapper• Results: 15% vs 70%• Moral: Labelling acts as a self-fulfilling
prophecy
Nick Michelioudakis+30 6932123166
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