How is it that the students in the class show more understanding, empathy, and compassion than their teachers? Why are bigots their teachers? Don’t the students deserve better?
Having found my old high school on FB, the subject of physical punishment came up. I found out that my biology teacher, Mr. Summers, who I was belted by for…
I have lots of things to do at school, including repair jobs (not central to teaching!)… so I repair lights, printers, … the list is quite long. Now I can…
In my class on Friday, I have a little student called Victor. He’s bright, talkative, and likes to learn English. But after talking to his mother recently, I realized that…
I had to laugh recently when I witnessed this rather cute photograph! One of our students took to playing ‘teacher’ with the dolls! She was teaching the dolls a chant.…
Teachers should really give OpenOffice.org a look: Office XP compatible, lots of extra features, Mac/Win/Linux variants, and PDF export functions. It is also multi-lingual, multi-system, and uses openly accepted formats.…
As teachers, we travel from country to country, we build up our book collection, our material collection and our experience. All of these are portable. They can be used with…