Showing posts with label teaching. Show all posts
Showing posts with label teaching. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Twinkl

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 Are you still teaching or learning English as a second language with old-school methods? Want some fun resources to activate your mind? Thi...
Sunday, January 13, 2019

What do you do at school?

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The twins have started pre-school and have been going for a while. We were visiting and so I asked full of curiosity, "What do you do...
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Tuesday, November 20, 2018

What makes a great teacher?

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What makes a great teacher, is it the rapport with the students, the ability to get the best from them, or is it the ability to want studen...
Sunday, May 13, 2018

When the student needs a teacher they are there

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You know what's kind of wild? At this very crossroads of time and space, more than ever before, there are so many billions of people ye...
Saturday, January 27, 2018

Talking to Students or talking AT them

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Our discussion, over lunch, focused on how do we keep student's attention when we were delivering content. So here is some advice for ...
Friday, February 10, 2017

Should we lower teachers wages?

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I read an interesting report on Teachers salary and the impact on student learning. The report was written by David R. Johnson for the CD ...
Saturday, February 28, 2015

Ten Characteristics of Extraordinary Teachers

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The International Center for Leadership in Education completed a study of what makes a teacher extraordinary. The study was built on three...
Monday, September 8, 2014

Thats what success looks like

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As my friends in teaching in BC wait to start back to another year of teaching and growth with their students, I thought they would find th...
Sunday, January 19, 2014

Teachers are important

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I was  a teacher for 40 years and loved every minute of it, but I learned some important lessons early in my career that helped me. For man...
Friday, September 6, 2013

Its the little things

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Recently one of my ex students made a comment on Facebook, which I found interesting and heart warming.  I had made a comment on her page a...
Sunday, November 25, 2012

Thoughts for new teachers

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The value of cooperation is important when you are teaching or working with someone who is a beginning learner or an expert in learning.  ...
Friday, November 4, 2011

The word is Only

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Professor Ernest Brennecke of Columbia is credited with inventing a sentence that can be made to have eight different meanings by placing ON...
Sunday, April 10, 2011

American Idol and Teaching

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My daughter loves watching American Idol and so when we were in Australia I started to watch it with her. I found I enjoyed watching America...
Monday, March 28, 2011

What it took to get an 8th grade education in 1895....

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Remember when grandparents and great-grandparents stated that they only had an 8th grade education?  Well, check this out.  Could any of us ...