A journey into learning

Learning and teaching English – learning and teaching to learn

A journey into learning

Posts Tagged ‘reflections’

On slaps in the face and banging heads against the wall

Am I a good teacher, or am I just fooling myself, and you? I don’t think I’m fooling myself at all – I don’t think I’m a good teacher. . Am I using this blog to promote the idea of me being a good teacher? Not even that, I believe. I definitely don’t use this forum to intentionally mislead or deceive you, kind reader.

Why I’m doing what I’m doing

This morning I watched this awesome short talk by Diana Laufenberg (more info here). I’m yet to find out if IATEFL-UK will be able to squeeze in my talk at their annual conference on a very similar topic: how teacher failure encourages teacher learning. I’d love to do this talk, perhaps not at IATEFL but [...]

My moronic ideals

I was hard put to decide what to do with this fairly offensive comment I received a few weeks ago to my analysis of why I decided to leave the UAE.