There have been several moments during my career where somethings happened and I’ve thought “This wasn’t on the job description”. Mostly, these have happened with Young (and very young) learners, but there were some exceptions. Anyway, I thought I’d share 5 things that aren’t on a Young Learners teacher’s Job description (but should be). 1. […]
Hangman is a common resident of many English language teaching classrooms. For low levels and young learners it has a great advantage of getting kids to say individual letters and help clarify some differences and confusion (for example E, I and A in Polish or H, J and W in Spanish). However, it can also […]
Well, it’s been a while since my last post after I completed my second LSA. The main reason for is the last month or so has been a frantic mess. I took too long at the start of the DELTA and so then I had to really focus and work hard at the end to […]
Well, I finally got my results back from my first LSA and, it’s a bit mixed. I had chosen a tricky topic that I wouldn’t advice people do the same but I also made some very silly mistakes that could have been easily avoided. So the end result is that I passed the teaching but […]
[Update: I actually have taught my LSA 1 now and have notes at the end] I missed posting last week for a few reasons. The main one was that I wanted to focus on getting my first background essay finished after I got feedback on my first draft. On a sidenote, I’ve noticed that the […]
I didn’t think I’d end up doing a “DELTA diary” this week, but I got a little push from a colleague who noticed that I had started blogging the DELTA, and that made me decided to continue. So this week I’m posting a little update on my progress, my lack of progress and what my […]
Well, just under a week has gone by but it already feels like much more time has passed. The theoretical “10 hours a week” of work certainly doesn’t seem true based on this week, but then again I did spend a lot of time flicking through PDFs (DevonThink, Documents to go is great on the […]
