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Venturing Beyond my “Zone of Personal Development” by Natalie Spengler
I have always been someone who has loved school. Growing up, there was no better feeling than the mix of butterflies and excitement I felt at the beginning of each school year. Nothing could compare to the sight of my brand-new crayons neatly arranged in colourful rows or the crisp feel of my freshly covered […]
“Where are you from, teacher?” by Vera Babkina
I think every teacher who has experience working abroad, has heard this one, right? The thing about working in Asian countries though (and I have spent the last 5 years teaching first in China, and now in Vietnam) is that some schools will not want all of their teachers to answer this question truthfully. Some […]
Kung Fu Shakespeare – by Anne Ryan Hanafin
‘Pupils may understand more than we believe they do.’ John Gordon (2015) I called them ‘the Kung Fu group’. Every time I went outside to assess their progress, someone was either crawling up the side of the building or throwing some old school Bruce Lee shapes, to the embarrassed delight of six classmates. Unfortunately, […]