There's been some news going around the teaching blog-collective about one Ms. Natalie Munroe out in Pennsylvania. The reason for this is that she posted on her blog a list of comments that she felt would be more appropriate to some of her students, rather than the canned "Lacks motivation" or "easily distracted." She came up with a list that she ( Read more... )

One of the things that my school does for its new teachers is to encourage them to go out and see the wider world of English Teacherdom. In this case, it meant sending me to the JALT 2010 Conference here in Nagoya. For those who don't know, JALT is the Japan Association for Language Teaching, one of the biggest such groups in Japan, and its ( Read more... )