Remembering
I’m in the process of updating old posts to work with a new blog template, which has been quite a walk down memory lane. Hopefully, when I’ve finished, it will be easier for readers...
Teaching Village Blog
Starting a YouTube Channel (by Mark Kulek)
Barbara: Why did you decide to start a YouTube channel? Mark: I started my YouTube channel so that my students could practice English at home. I also wanted my students’s parents to see what...
Experimental Practice: My personal Journey (by Jennie Wright)
There is a brilliant quote about professional development which I always carry with me from Scrivener’s book Learning Teaching: “Twenty years’ experience can become no more than two years’ experience repeated ten times over” (1994,...
Traveling the experimental practice road (by Christina Rebuffet-Broadus)
There comes a point in every TEFL teacher’s life when we reach a fork in the road. We begin asking ourselves questions: Should I start looking for ‘a real job’? Where is my career...
Getting Unstuck…10 Experiments (by Theodora Papapanagiotou)
We have all been there! Sometimes you’re swamped with work, with personal problems and you just can’t function. As a teacher, as a person, you just go through a very non-creative phase and you...
Reindeers on a Red Carpet (by Marco A. Brazil)
Ever since I made my first creations using recycled toilet paper (TP) rolls, I fell in love with TP rolls and have been a big TP roll recycling fan. I am amazed how creative...
What’s your future perfect? (by Jen Brummer)
Hi, everyone. Let’s do a quick grammar activity before you begin reading my blog post. Please answer the questions below. I will provide an example of each for you. 1) Give an example of...
The Fallacy of Fun by Leonie Overbeek
Tackling this subject I almost feel like an atheist walking into a church and shouting ‘God is dead’. I am met with the same amount of horror and resistance. Some of the comments made...
English only in English class by Leon Butchers
Most teachers would agree that ideally only English should be spoken in English class. However, in practice this is often more easily said than done. It’s easy to see why students struggle – young...
TEFL teaching — slavery or career path? by Leonie Overbeek
In the article ‘The Slavery of Teaching English.’ Sebastian Creswell-Turner wrote that ‘the job is tedious, the salary appalling and the prospects nil.’ The article was written in 2004 and recently published in the...
