I remember being a child and feeling so confused as I read the Bible for the first time, trying to make sense of words like thee, thy and thou shalt.
It all felt Greek to me.
In fact, I never …
Back when I was in high school, teachers often labeled me as defiant and a troublemaker.
The thing is, I wasn’t particularly bad or disruptive.
I just needed to understand why we were expected to follow certain rules.
Of …
My first ESL sports lesson can be described in four words:
Swing and a miss.
I made the mistake of teaching sports lessons straight from the textbook and not finding ways to use sports to engage with my students.…
Are your students not getting your “Smelly Cat” references?
Or do they act completely oblivious when you shout “we were on a break!” at the end of each class recess?
If so, you might need to add some “Friends” into …
Looking to fill awkward silences in your EAL class?
Wracking your brains to come up with unplanned activities on the fly?
Sometimes your lessons might go a little too well.
Students breeze through the textbook exercises in no time, and …
Remember back when you were a student, when lessons were taught using chalkboards and overhead projectors?
It’s amazing that we learned as much as we did using such Stone Age technology in the classroom. I remember scrambling to write down …
Ever had one of those uh-oh moments that completely ruined your lesson?
One time when I was still training to be a teacher, I had lost my lesson plan minutes before my teaching assessment thanks to a computer outage. As …
It takes a special kind of person to teach kindergarteners.
I learned this lesson on my first day of teaching at an English academy for kindergarteners. I thought I was already prepared for the job because of my experience with …
Ever feel like there’s more you could be doing for the environment?
Every few weeks, I like to wake up early on a Saturday morning and pick up trash along the beach. But no matter how often I do it, …
Um… uh… well…
No matter your native language, you’ve probably had one of those moments where you just didn’t know what to say.
Maybe it was when a professor called on you while you were daydreaming about your weekend. …
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