The Teaching Profession
Teaching is the only field I know of where the people who employ the professionals they hire don't really believe that they can do the job,
Success and Failure
We all have one class that doesn't work, in our view. It just feels wrong. The kids don't partipate, there is a culture of passive
Statement of Emancipation
In the continued interest of our collective mental health, I have decided to say that I no longer wish to feel as if I am
It's Elementary!
I got this reason to celebrate today: Hi Ben! I am one super lucky language teacher. I get to teach the elementary level and I get to
Educating Smart Ass Kids and Their Parents
Hi Ben, You could call this one "stop teaching the rules, and start teaching language," because this is the attitude I am getting from my 4%ers
Response to David 2
This is a more general response to what David wrote, some thoughts about the change we are in: I deeply feel that we in teaching are
Response to David 1
David's comment on the toughness of his largely Asian ESL kids in supporting families working for the corporation called FedEx gives us cause to reflect
Exhaustion
I got this from a colleague who needs our help. It's a great question about being exhausted that ties into the simplicity thread (actually a
Zen and The Art
I got this from Brian, currently in his first month of using comprehensible input methods. Great stuff: Hi Ben, You asked me to expand a bit on
Model What You Want From Them
On the topic of training kids about exactly what behaviors you expect in your classroom (i.e. your classroom rules/norms), I did something that was a