Experiences of a teacher of English

As I’ve already told you, both teachers and parents wish our students would learn. Well, and most of students as well.  And these students need abundant time for studying. Just them. They should have some place and abundant time for studying, researching and writing their activities. Just themselves, as I just said.  I can recall with joy and gratitude when I was a student at high school and we the students did have a study hall or a library to study on our own. And we carried out and accomplished high school and after that, college.  Perhaps sometimes there might be a teacher or a monitor in charge of taking care of that study hall and he used to work on his own stuff, but also as I said, it is convenient students on their own would learn how to work, study and write their activities.  It is so because it’s them who have to realize they have to study on their own, just because they wish so, it’s them who have to learn how to work on their own.  When there were ...

We teachers should wish our students would learn, both contents and skills. Well, and values as well: ecology, honesty, working capacity, generosity, discernment, sincerity, friendliness and friend-making skills, charity, piety, being good citizens, joy, etcetera.  And we’re finishing the school year – in the northern hemisphere. We teachers will achieve all those nice things if we love our students with benevolence love, which is to seek what is good for them.  That benevolence love is a continuation of the love their parents have to them. And the school should be also a continuation of home.  We educate those kids – or those adults – on behalf of their parents, but in their own name if they are grownups.  Alike we teachers will be happy and carry out a plenitude life if we love our students. On this context our labor as teachers is, well, teaching. In other words, presenting those people new contents, plus helping them acquire those skills and values they may expec...

At least in the north hemisphere of our world we in schools are more or less near another end of another school year. Perhaps we teach remotely or face-to-face, or we may be combining both in a hybrid way. We may be tired. But we have to keep the rhythm.  Now I would like to give you some tips for lesson planning. When doing that, I would tell you first to think of a few goals, with our dear students in mind – they may be adorable people although they may give us a lot of work to do and to manage their behavior.  So let’s think of a few goals, like the main points about those specific students and what they are in want of now. I just said few but this morning I thought of… seven aims or goals for a single lesson.  Anyway, if we think of more goals we will find ourselves with nearly already thought activities to implement during the lesson: more goals thought of, more activities already thought of.  Now what? I’d say that when thinking of those aims or goals, we shoul...

Want to learn a language? A foreign or second one?  From all what seen by me and others I could now tell you some tips that might help you or your students learn that language.  It’s obvious but think of dedicating some minutes every single day, for longer if you can.  On these latter days I’ve learned such words as headway, fretting, overstrain, Mussulman, trader, hangout, commuting, to bog down, betrothed, don’t go overboard, née, pinnace … You know what I do? I write down those words and revise them often and think of sentences by utilizing those words… all that works to get them into memory so that I’ll later retrieve them when I need them.  As well I try to use them in real life: if you use them, you can remember them, otherwise, no memory of them or hardly any...  Alike you could directly study from a dictionary.  Carrying on with tips to learn a language: you have to practice the four skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Plus vocabulary...