One day teacher of English A said to teacher of English B, “The teacher must know his students, but also he must know himself: how am I doing? Are my students really learning? How am I working lately? 20th century philosopher and writer Jean Guitton (1901-1999), one of the best minds in that century, used to say that intellectual work, and ...

I’ve copied and pasted the following text by Benedict XVI. The more I read it, the more inspiration I get for my everyday teaching English and helping people communicate with one another. It’s a piece from an encyclical letter by him, Caritas in Veritate, and the piece is from # 53 within the letter. N.B.: The title in Latin means ‘Charity in ...

One day teacher of English A said to teacher of English B, “A teacher of math, literature, English... cannot confine his work to pass on, to teach, information, knowledge, math operations, the theoretical part of English..., but he or she has to teach their students to learn; to learn what? That information, knowledge, linguistic competence for ...

One day teacher A said to teacher B, “Every person leaves some trace in history, either some good or some bad dregs. You influence on history, on humankind. Just with your everyday work. You serve society, with your teaching. You connect people with your teaching a language. If you fulfill your work nice, you make goodness to people, although ...

One day teacher B said to teacher A, ''I've lately been thinking of female teachers, ye know? In Spain there are more women than men dedicated to teach English - better said, to help their students to become more and more autonomous learners. I have noticed some digg qualities women have. They have something, say, characteristic, peculiar to ...

One day teacher B said to teacher A, “I have clearly realized that the teacher must effectively make every student participate. The teacher should rope all his students in the class-period, asking and addressing each student, both slower students and more advanced (or better-achievers) ones, combining simple questions and prompts with ...

One day teacher A said to teacher B, ''A few days ago teacher C told me that right after the classes, when she was clearing up her stuff, some girls used to come to her desk, just to talk with her, to chat for a small while, just to have a peek at her stuff, and things like thtat. Other times one girl spoke with her, when waiting for the rest of ...

One day teacher B said to teacher A, ''So, as a summary of what I try to do in my class-periods is aiming toward communication. Some teachers implement too much translation from English into Spanish, for example, with the text or stories that are in the students' coursebooks. Translating is ok, yet it's only one more activity, not the only one, ...