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 [...]
I’ll admit, writing out detailed daily lesson plans isn’t for every ESL teacher. Some people think better when they are flexible about how their classes unfold. However, I encourage everyone to write out at least a few carefully developed lesson plans when they first start teaching ESL in China. [...]
