Teacher A said to teacher B, “Following the thoughts of post # 1126 I think I meant that you learn someone is a person with time passing: you are in a process of getting acquainted with him through the sequence of classes: this exercise, this failure, this response, this detail...  It’s a human process of learning each other, of living and ...

Teacher A said to teacher B, “Sport is a good educator.  You’ve got to smash your records, play in a team with other people, play against somebody, acquire discipline, apply effort.  Everyone’s developing their personality is assisted by doing sport. You’re also your body. Learning English gains with the assistance of physical sport. I like to ...

Teacher A said to teacher B, “I know a teacher of English that makes good use of all the chances he has to speak in English.  He lives in a city of the south of Spain. If someone on the street, like tourists for example, asks him something in some Spanish, he asks them if they speak English. Usually they do. So, he turns into English so as to ...

Teacher B said to teacher A, “In the worst of cases a student that is doing bad in his studies and has a lot of flaws, the teacher must keep being serene, positive, encouraging, and helping.  The same can be said about his parents.  That student needs somebody close to him that smiles and doesn’t make big and fatal tragedies.  Both the parents ...

Teacher A said to teacher B, “I know a student that invests a lot of hours studying, but his grades [marks] are low, fail.  I guess he doesn’t know how to study, he doesn’t know how to develop his job now, which is being a student.  He has the school subject of science in English. A basic method to study is: first, a general reading of the ...

Teacher B said to teacher A, “One key point to learn/acquire a foreign language, like English, is just to invest effort, to study, to practice, to fight, to strive, to struggle, to rise if I fell.  For example, the list of irregular verbs. Every generation has had to study it by heart. Practice and use help a lot here. If you use an irregular ...

Teacher B said to teacher A, “Nowadays it’s more difficult for kids to focus because there are more devices that distract them. Focus and effort now are more difficult.  So what now?  The teacher should be a bit kind of an actor or actress, who keeps their students’ attention more than ever before. However, the thing depends on the way that ...

Teacher B said to teacher A, “A person, for instance a student, can repeat nice actions so acquire good habits, human virtues, like knowing how to listen to a person’s concerns and problems with real interest.  Now, think of counting on God’s help: those virtues turn into supernatural virtues – it doesn’t mean they aren’t human ones any ...

Teacher A said to teacher B, “If no words, no communication.  I knew a teacher, a committed one, who used to assign as homework to study lists of vocabulary (and other homework). His students achieved to learn a lot of words, usual words, common words, so those students were able to speak in English more fluently than just single ...

Teacher B said to teacher A, “Some high-achiever students get bored in the classes of English, and say they are learning nothing new.  A teacher, some years ago, told me that we teachers of modern languages could provide extra high-level activities for them. Well, it sounds great but it implies more work for the teachers, who usually are busy, ...