Who: Jim Scrivener (Learning Teaching, Classroom Management Techniques) and Adrian Underhill (Sound Foundations), with guest posts.
What: The companion blog to their Demand High seminars (launched at IATEFL 2012). Conversation moved to Facebook in 2014.
Stance: A “meme, not a method”: a small course correction asking teachers to push each learner to their next doable step, instead of settling for completed tasks and “covering material”. It works with CLT, Dogme or coursebooks.
Processed notes
- Doable demand at the learner’s next step
- One-to-one-in-a-group - stop rubberstamping answers
- Prepare a bank of challenge prompts
- Upgrade language during fluency work with minimal interference
Next to process
- Demand-high teaching (Scrivener 2014, EJAL-TEFL 3(2)): the citable article
- Practitioner accounts on the discussions page (IH Milan; a DELTA Module 2 lesson)
- Steve Brown’s critique, “Is Demand-High enough?”