As a teacher, it always surprises me that I wasn’t encouraged to learn more about how the brain functions. I went to an excellent program for teaching at the School for International Training and I learned all kinds of things about teaching methods, intercultural interactions and linguistics. They had a very brain Read more…
“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” ― Plato Including your writing class! Well on in my career as a human being, I have discovered that I love writing but this was not always the case. I can Read more…
Difficult students can make you want to tear your hair out when you are a teacher. It is truly amazing how one student, just one, can derail an entire class. From this observation, springs sayings like “One rotten apple can spoil the whole barrel.” Difficult students come in all different Read more…
Let me just state, right off the bat, multiple-choice tests are not how I prefer to evaluate my students. In fact, when it comes to evaluating how well a student can or can not use a language, I don’t think they tell us very much at all. They are however, Read more…