How is it that the students in the class show more understanding, empathy, and compassion than their teachers? Why are bigots their teachers? Don’t the students deserve better?
Having found my old high school on FB, the subject of physical punishment came up. I found out that my biology teacher, Mr. Summers, who I was belted by for doing something that could have been sorted out with a few sharp words. Of course, the belt was the answer to all problems caused by…
I have lots of things to do at school, including repair jobs (not central to teaching!)… so I repair lights, printers, … the list is quite long. Now I can add switch plates to the list! Though they may be the easiest thing to repair, if you can get the old one off! Last week…
In my class on Friday, I have a little student called Victor. He’s bright, talkative, and likes to learn English. But after talking to his mother recently, I realized that his skin allergies (I think he has exczma) really affect his mood. His skin condition stabilizes during the winter and summer months, but the climate…
I had to laugh recently when I witnessed this rather cute photograph! One of our students took to playing ‘teacher’ with the dolls! She was teaching the dolls a chant. Perhaps she’s saying: “Look! I told you not to do that!” “Now, can’t you see? I’m in the middle of class! Let me finish giving…
Teachers should really give OpenOffice.org a look: Office XP compatible, lots of extra features, Mac/Win/Linux variants, and PDF export functions. It is also multi-lingual, multi-system, and uses openly accepted formats. It is a highly suitable tool for Teachers everywhere and well worth the download from OpenOffice. Its website says: "Oo is a multiplatform and multilingual…
As teachers, we travel from country to country, we build up our book collection, our material collection and our experience. All of these are portable. They can be used with modifications in different countries. How annoying it is that when we build up a collection of DVDs (legally), that we use as source material for…