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- My Teacher
My teacher The outline: 1. Teacher?s name 2. His or her nature 3. Hard-working or not 4. How much I like him or her. Why? 5. The end. The name of my teacher is Miss Lim Swee Lan. She is a very pleasant lady. Miss Lim likes children very much. She herself...
- Describe The First Day Of Your School.
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- Classroom Routines
One of the most important things I have learnt about teaching young learners is the need for routines. There are many things that can be used in the classroom for many reasons, but today I'm interested in discipline routines. When I started teaching,...
- For New Teachers: Teaching Is Not A Sprint, It's A Marathon
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An Empty Teachers' Room
I went into school the other day and found the door locked and nobody around. We all have keys, so can come and go as we please, so this isn't necessarily a problem. There are four teachers, a senior teacher - me, a secretary (who works evenings only) and the husband and wife directors. So, there I was, sitting planning in a silent, empty school. The problem for me is that this is not entirely abnormal. Sometimes there is another teacher there and one of the directors, but there is no staffroom chat and not that much sharing or discussing lessons. We don't plan in the teachers' room - it's small - and there are also computers in every classroom, so planning tends to be done separately and at different times of the day.
In my previous schools the teachers' room has been the hub of activity, a centre of ideas sharing and banter; a place where we helped make materials together, passed on lesson plans, drank tea and ranted about lesson disasters, recalcitrant students and rubbish course books. In this school there isn't really any of that and I miss it. I won't be at this school after the end of this term, so I can handle it for now. However, the next time I'm having an interview for a job this will be something I'll specifically ask about, because, maybe naively, I had just assumed that all schools had good teachers' rooms like I described above.
I like the way that having a PLN, through twitter and blogging goes some way to overcoming such a situation.
- My Teacher
My teacher The outline: 1. Teacher?s name 2. His or her nature 3. Hard-working or not 4. How much I like him or her. Why? 5. The end. The name of my teacher is Miss Lim Swee Lan. She is a very pleasant lady. Miss Lim likes children very much. She herself...
- Describe The First Day Of Your School.
Describe the first day of your school Today is the first day of school. The three months of vacation in the country have passed like a dream. This morning, I was returning to school. I was thinking of the country, and went unwillingly. The streets were...
- 30 Websites With Free Esl Teaching Resources
Yesterday, Karen Schweitzer, an experienced freelance writer and copyeditor who also writes for About.com and other education companies, sent me this article with very valuable information about Free ESL Teaching Resources.Every teacher needs a little...
- Classroom Routines
One of the most important things I have learnt about teaching young learners is the need for routines. There are many things that can be used in the classroom for many reasons, but today I'm interested in discipline routines. When I started teaching,...
- For New Teachers: Teaching Is Not A Sprint, It's A Marathon
I'm sure that this has been said somewhere else before, but I believe that it's true. I have met some new teachers who are constantly dogged by the feeling that they are not good at the craft because they have had lessons that don't...