Category: Teaching & Learning

Image source The bus I was riding was assaulted tonight. One stop after I got on, four teenagers boarded the bus. One of them tried to climb in through …

Image by Arthur Ganson Ever since I came back to Brazil to stay (in June 2010), I’ve been extremely busy… usually bordering on overloaded. Trying to juggle my U.S.-based …

I’ve never liked trite phrases like “You can do anything you put your mind to!” – they somehow fail to motivate me. Yet over the past year, I’ve seen …

January is a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad month for English teachers in Brazil. My group classes are on break until after Carnaval, and my individual students have been …

Image source …is that is messes with your translation work. I’ve just come up for air after finishing a mega-project of about 60 pages in 4 days (which may …

Monday Morning: Wake up at 5:30 AM while husband sleeps in. Have a fail turned win in the 7 AM class. Afternoon: Spend several hours doing the class planning …

There are several things that can ruin an English teacher’s day, but one of the worst is when the awesome lesson you’d so carefully planned is somehow derailed and …

Your English teacher hates it when you… 1. Constantly mess with your cell phone in class. Unless you are consulting a dictionary app on your phone – which I …

When we Americans hear the word “suburbs,” we picture a comfortable lifestyle with sizable houses, spacious yards, and safe neighborhoods full of two-car families. Not so with the Brazilian …

Another student of mine left for a trip to the U.S. this week – that’s the third one in three months. It evokes a strange blend of emotions in …