We rarely talk about mental health problems in ELT—the stress, anxiety, the hidden injuries of bureaucracy. Yet these are problems experienced by grassroots teachers across contexts and cultures. In the build-up to UK Time to Talk Day 2017,…
Monthly Archives For January 2017
You don’t need a CELTA, you need a pulse
I don’t often miss working in language schools but when I do get misty-eyed over old workmates I usually have one or two memories in the back of my mind to give me a reality…
My other job is teaching English
The National Council of Teachers of English looks like a CPD and lobby group for teachers, which, of course, includes ELT people. They caught my eye recently after Stephen Krashen (yes, I twitter-follow him) tweeted…
The drip drip
Recently I was prompted to recall the Chinese water torture (a nice racist name) which was a staple playground talking point at my secondary school. How such torture caused pain was quite puzzling for an…
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