Lesson-from-recent-experience No. 3: your headmaster (or principal) will only come in to observe you teaching when you are having a bad day. Usually a really bad day. Acceptance of this fact will enable you not to be flustered at his/her appearance in the back of your classroom. Don't be flustered. It only worsens your other faux pauxs, flubs, and

From-recent-experience teaching lesson No.1: high school boys (not unlike pre-school and elementary and middle school and college boys) are endlessly fascinate with body humor. And so, should you ever find yourself attempting to explain the case system of an inflected language like Latin to a class of ... well one with boys in it, and one of them ( Read more... )