Using Your Past To Relate To Students
I found two news stories, the links to which I’d set aside for a rainy day, on how a teacher’s past experiences can help them relate to students. The first concerned teachers who were immigrants (and...
View ArticleFrom Scott Sommers’ Taiwan Blog: Why Native Speaker Programs Don’t Work
Scott Sommers’ blog recently featured his thoughts on why native English speaker programs don’t work. First of all, do keep in mind that he distinguishes between native English speaker teachers...
View ArticleThree Tips, Two Blogs And A Handful Of Insight For Non-Native Speaker ESL...
I’ve had the opportunity to work with a number of non-native speaker teachers: one of my CELTA trainers, a later Director of Studies, and a number of co-workers (some who were also foreigners like me,...
View ArticleAre You An EFL Expert?
Can your relative “green-ness” as an English language teacher ever be an advantage? According to a recent article in the New York Times – yes. This article discusses the theory that as people become...
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