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Part of the series: Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know While trying to have a quick nap on a hot Friday afternoon in Southern Spain, I started thinking of what to write about for this guest post. Two ideas came to me – the first being the use of puppets in the early learner classroom, [...]
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Part of the series: My Personal Learning Network Congratulations! Colin Graham Catherine Dorgan Harini Dwi Janet Bianchini Share the post “What You Can Learn From My PLN Quiz #4 (June 28)”FacebookTwitterGoogle+
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Part of the series: My Personal Learning Network Congratulations! Arjana Blazic Catherine Dorgan Jane Barden Katerina Zempeki-Stamelou Leahn Stanhope Marisa Parvan Share the post “What You Can Learn from My PLN Quiz #3 (June 23)”FacebookTwitterGoogle+
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Part of the series: Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know I was initially very flattered when Barbara asked me to write a guest post, then my happy feeling turned to mild panic. Finally I just decided to write so here we are. This post is dedicated to one of my favourite ‘props’ for the young [...]
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A few weeks ago I was teaching a group of personal and team assistants (PAs) I hadn’t met before how to assist international teams. This group didn’t need to go over critical incidents they’d had with foreign team members. Instead, they said their biggest challenge was making small talk with their visiting American team members. [...]
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Part of the series: My Personal Learning Network Congratulations! Anne Hodgson Arjana Blazic Janet Bianchini Leahn Stanhope Share the post “What you can learn from my PLN Quiz #2 (June 18)”FacebookTwitterGoogle+
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Part of the series: Lessons Learned from Students Back with the ink was barely dry on my MATESOL, I had a group of students from whom I learned many, many lessons. This post is about three of those lessons… The setting: A once-a-week English class at a high school in Japan, in the mid 1980s. [...]
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Part of the series: My Personal Learning Network This post is inspired by several things: The “It’s worth taking a look at this blog” initiative that had folks recommending blogs they liked, Darren Elliot’s call for us to find and recommend hidden gems from blog archives, and my own (long neglected) posts about “What I’ve [...]
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I teach students between the ages of two- and six-years-old. When you teach young learners you discover how much they love finger plays. The children memorize the English quickly and are able to repeat the words and actions on their own. Introducing the Finger Play Finger plays are best used in the classroom with the [...]
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I was thirty-two years old the first time I stepped into a kindergarten classroom as an English instructor. Because I previously had fairly extensive leadership experience as a military officer, the general manager of a multi-million dollar software company, and as an operations manager within a multi-billion dollar conglomerate, I just didn’t think teaching children [...]
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