After 40 years of teaching, I have retired from the classroom with many lovely memories, a few embarrassing regrets, and loads of acquired insight into what teaching is really about. In short snippets, I am planning to share some of these insights with you throughout the coming weeks. This is #1.
Use these activities to start a new school year. First, you need to make your students feel welcome and comfortable in class, with you and each other. Leave out school books and tests - at least until later. …
Use these activities to start a new school year. Leave schoolbooks and tests until later. Related Page School Start 1-6. Check also Calendar, Planning Page, and Digital School Start.
WebEnglish.se hopes to make every teacher's life easier by presenting term plan templates to use together with your students and/or colleagues to plan an enjoyable school term.
This post was originally published on the Ditch That Textbook blog. One day in 2005, my student Malin walked in looking for me just to tell me that she used to hate English before I became her teacher. The reason for the change, she said, was that she got to decide a little more herself and that she could learn …
