Teacher B said to teacher A, “Youth is the age of ideals. Youngsters are not conformists: they wish to change the world.  We teachers should take advantage of this to propose to them big and small things: to visit an old marriage that nobody cares of, to study hard, to change society – unfair things -, to help their classmates, to invest their ...

One day teacher of English A said to teacher of English B, “Sometimes I think that we teachers – and firstly the family – should help the kid become a better person more than helping him to work better. If we aid the kid to become a better person, he will become a better worker.  However, it’s also true that work is a source of bettering; for ...

One day teacher of English A said to teacher of English B, “I think carrying out a project-work at school is a pretty good activity within part of the essence of school: learning to learn and think. Drills and speaking in English are good practice in the class. However, don’t forget the major aptitudes of your students, for example thorough ...

One day teacher of English A said to teacher of English B, “Group working can bolster our students’ creativity. The groups should be of three members – for example – so as more easily rope each member into the work. Men and women are social by nature, and people often work in groups. If all the students contribute to the process and final ...

One day teacher of English B said to teacher of English A, “Singing in a choir is very educative. The choir may be formed by the students who wish to participate. Each member has to invest discipline in. The result of the performing of the choir depends on the duty fulfilled by every singer. They follow the directions of the conductor of the ...

One day teacher of English B said to teacher of English A, “Your students can learn a lot by carrying out project-works and making up posters, about one topic they’ve chosen. They work in pairs. In the class you can make a brainstorm of ideas from them, for possible projects, related to their likes and interests. So they´ll suggest topics, with ...

One day teacher of English A said to teacher of English B, “I’ve been lately thinking that school should be, has to be, more than instruction, you know. I mean, not only instruction in history, biology, speaking in English, math, and so on. Consider what I’ve copied for you. Here you go. Look. ‘A recent historian has termed Harvard in that period ...

One day teacher of English A said to teacher of English B, “Children become adolescents when they realize that they can think with their own ideas and views. They start to have intimacy. This period of life is one of great ideals, about themselves and about the surrounding world. You, as an educator, bearing in mind their parents are their first ...

This is one chapter of my book on TEFL/TESL/ELL. It is what somehow experienced teacher writes to a rookie, novice one. Photo thanks to contralatanca files wordpress com A hockey game Bulgary vs Spain. Here is a minority sport. *** 3. Aunar fuerzas proporciona una enorme potencialidad... ***Unas ocurrencias sobre el trabajo de los profesores en ...

I translate an inspiring quotation for your treatment with your teens. ''Adolescence is the age of great challenges and also of great failures; the age of victories and also of defeats. The point is this age be the one of striving.'' By C. Burke. I read it yesterday in Gerardo Castillo (2006) Tus hijos adolescentes. Madrid: Ediciones Palabra. On ...