I am not good at remembering names and faces. In the small town where I live, I am constantly running into people and trying to recall if I know them from my son’s school or from musical theater or from church or just where we might have met.
So you can imagine the difficulty I have […]
Tips on remembering student names
August 29th, 2011 · 1 Comment · teacher-training
Tags: memory·names·remembering·students·techniques
Classroom horror stories
August 10th, 2011 · No Comments · EFL, Jobs, Program Administration
We’ve been having a heat wave in Vermont, in the northeastern United States where I live. The temperature has reached 95° F (35° C). It’s actually hotter here than it was in Saudi Arabia when I visited in the spring. It got me thinking about the effect of heat and other discomforts on our classes […]
Tags: classrooms·cold·hot·job conditions·students·teaching·tools·uncomfortable·unsuitable