Without a doubt. The trials we face each day are just part of our karma. We live and we learn and sometimes we may want to weep and pull our hair...
It's criminal. Govts spend billions bailing out incompetent managers and do nothing to help their next generation of workers (our kids in our...
We have a homework timetable for the kids. Each class is allocated days on which they can give homework and the students have a copy so there is...
A lot, I'm going to use the computer much more, especially pages like Page Creator. I want to make the students use the computer for more than...
I don't want to damage their kidneys, I let them go. You quickly learn who the regular abusers are and I let them know that in future they have to...
Have they seen the movie with Leonardo DiCaprio? Watch that, especially the party scene. I got my class to improvise a modern version of a scene...
Too much paperwork, useless administration, lack of leadership and parental support. Get some experience at home and then get a job in a far away...
Students can respond well when you give them a degree of autonomy over their learning. Letting them write anything they want in a daily journal is...
I look forward to Monday morning, knowing that I'll meet all of the students again, they're a fantastic bunch of kids. Sit down and analyze...
All of the 'Adventure' book by Willard Price. They kept me in my room away from the noise downstairs for hours. That was when I learned to escape...
I lasted 9 months in my first school, it was a comprehensive school with about 1,000 boys. A nasty place. I faced similar problems. At the end of...
If ever it all gets to be just too much, try looking for a job on an international school in another country (if you are able to leave home that...
Becoming a teacher I think must have been Karma. It is all I have ever wanted to do and I still enjoy every minute of every day...except that is...
Shakespeare Books Hi, Have a look at the Saddleback Classic series of Shakespeare books. Each is about 98 pages long and is written in modern...
