Keep Calm and Manage Behaviour
Raise your hand if you have a student who always tattletales on their peers? Keep it up if your aggressive student disrupts your class. What about those smart students that are boisterous [...]
Handling Disrespectful Kids: Is it that tough a task?
The world is buzzing with talks of kids and especially teenagers, growing rowdier day by day. With schools and institutes shifting their focus to moral and ethical sciences as the [...]
English Language Teaching Methodologies Part 1
How do people learn a language? This is a question that will impact any existing or prospective teacher whether they be teaching English or any other language. Over two articles I shall [...]
7 Tips on Learning Chinese
Learning a new language is not an easy task, especially when it comes to learning Chinese. But, if you have the motivation to do it, it is definitely possible. Chinese is known [...]
Creating a Student-Centered Classroom
Something we occasionally see in new teachers here at York is the misunderstanding that great teaching is all about being at the centre of the class. Teachers fresh [...]
Modified Teaching Activities
Teaching Activities One common question from most new teachers is; “What activities can I do with my students?’ So I am going to try and explain a few common activities and how [...]
5 Common Comma Mistakes
Besides the period, the comma is probably the most widely used punctuation mark in English writing. In fact, the comma might actually be used more frequently than the period, as some sentences [...]
Eating Local Food in China
Today's article is about the different types of food available in a typical Chinese city. Obviously when traveling to China one of the questions in most people's minds is what food can [...]
7 Differences between Chinese and American Culture
Culture Matters In recent years, China has grown to become a true global super power next to America. Since then, these two countries have been the subject of comparisons in many news [...]
7 Things to Look for in a Chinese ESL School
1. A fair deal Let’s start with an obvious point. You might be flying halfway around the world to go and teach in China. You might have spent [...]
