Having been a teacher trainer for a few years now, I’ve had opportunities to observe and reflect on the good and bad things teachers do in the classroom (including my own teaching skills!) while looking back on those first terrifying (and exhilarating) teaching years with a more experienced eye,...
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21st March 2017By Sharon Maloney
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14th March 2017By James Pengelley
You’ve passed your CELTA or CertTESOL, you’ve recovered from sleep loss. You’re pencils are all sharpened, and mum has starched all your shirts…. you’re ready to start looking for your first teaching job? What next? Since I started teaching I estimate that I have applied for nearly 30 teaching... -
7th March 2017By Sharon Maloney
As a teaching employee, I have gone through a few spells of demotivation in my career. The most recent one was a few months ago. Feeling demotivated with my job, very unappreciated and generally overwhelmed with my workload, I woke up day after day dreading what lay ahead for the next 9 hours...... -
28th February 2017By Tom Garside
As school or department managers, we face a constant staffing challenge which arises every year – which teachers will be leaving, how can we ensure that new replacements fit well into our institution, and how can we keep good teachers on board to continue doing the good work that gets results?... -
21st February 2017By Bryan Holmes
Hong Kong is an amazing city and I’m often asked why I moved here, but to be honest it was purely by chance. I applied for jobs in The Ukraine, Lebanon, and Hong Kong. I said whichever British Council Centre employs me first, I’ll take it. Ideally I wanted to go to Lebanon or Ukraine but neither... -
14th February 2017By Tom Garside
Vocabulary is an important part of language study, especially for younger learners and low levels of ability. However, teachers often gloss over opportunities for deep practice with new words and phrases – we often only have time to teach things once, and then we are flying on to the next thing... -
7th February 2017By Sharon Maloney
Valentine’s Day is a wonderful time to delve into themes of love and friendship with your ESL / EFL classes. In my teaching experience, kids and adults alike enjoy discussing and sharing traditions and ideas about love. Here are some of English for Asia’s favourite Valentine activities to do in... -
31st January 2017By James Pengelley
Article contributors: Tom Garside, Sharon Maloney, Bryan Holmes. We´ve written alot about what it´s like to take a DipTESOL, and the differences between an MA and DipTESOL, but the reality is there´s no better resource than meeting people who have been through a course. In fact we often...