The Chinese New Year is vastly different from the one Westerners fete every January 1st. First of all, the Chinese New Year is based on the original Chinese lunar calendar, so the date is different each year. Oh, excuse me, all 15 days are different each year. That’s right, [...]
Are you starting your classes with a warm up? Warm ups are not ways for you to kill precious minutes at the start of class, instead, they are extremely useful tools to start the class off on an energetic note and get the class thinking in English. It is important that [...]
Disciplining my students was the most challenging aspect of teaching in China. However, learning to do it well was probably the most valuable teaching tool I acquired. In my public primary school classroom, I typically had at least 50 kids per class. That’s a lot of energy to (attempt [...]
