Whose B2 is it anyway?
Arriving in Qatar on a Friday meant that all the shops were shut in the city centre, so we arrived...
Month: January 2017
Keeping teens on their toes with BYOD
The big deal with teaching teens is their attention span. You can blame the advent of digital technology, you can...
Teaching world literature: bridging the gap in students’ cultural understanding
How can we prepare our students to read about people and places so far removed from themselves? How does knowledge...
Get them involved: an effective assessment tool
Assessment is a new hot topic on campus. Everything must be evaluated for worth, from assessment for accreditation down to...
How to identify fake news
“Any form of journalism you’re involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.” Margaret...
Principled, gamified and effective
Noisy and uncooperative young learner classes can be demoralising for the teacher. In Vietnamese language schools, teachers commonly use classroom...
Book Review: ‘From Rules to Reasons’ by Danny Norrington-Davies
Jason has over 20 years of experience helping teachers across the world. He is an award-winning and bestselling author, as...
Stories of Survival
The wind howled around me. Clouds of breath came out of my mouth. My fingers and toes were numb. There...
Teaching teens: challenges and rewards
When teaching teenagers, I think teaching professionals are faced with many challenges irrespective of their teaching context. In this article...
Having a ball
It may sound like a bit of a cliché to do a ball-throwing activity in a language class, but it...