📖 From the teacher's desk: In my very first observed lesson on the CELTA course, my board work was a disaster — cramped, inconsistent fonts, no clear sections, and I talked while writing with my…
🎙 From the classroom: When I was observed teaching in Brittany, my observer timed every minute. I was talking for sixty-three percent of a forty-minute lesson. I thought I was helping. I was blocking practice.…
🎙 From the classroom: My first week in the classroom in Landerneau, Brittany, I asked 'Does everyone understand?' about twenty times. A row of nodding heads. Then the task collapsed. One good concept-check question would…
Epictetus divided the world into what is up to us and what is not. What that distinction means for a teacher when a well-planned lesson falls flat, and a two-question ritual for before and after…
"Your board is your second teacher. Your instructions are your students' first obstacle. Master both — and everything else gets easier."
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