Teacher Appreciation: An Inside Job

Annually, on October 5th, it is International Teacher's Day. Interestingly, what I notice every year, since becoming a teacher in 2022, is that teachers (and we can add education NGOs/NPOs, because usually former teachers work there) all over social media celebrate each other more that the rest of the world actually knows about and appreciates... Continue Reading →

Coming out of the chaos

In the last few weeks before schools closed for Term 2, a colleague said to me, "I noticed that you haven't been writing for your blog anymore." Literally today, a connection I made with someone says to me, "I know you write an education blog write ..." My general response is that I know that... Continue Reading →

Discipline doesn’t mean shhh …

I read somewhere a long time ago that saying, "keep quiet" vs. "quiet down" is not the same thing. In your classroom, you need to let your learners know exactly what you mean. Do you want complete silence, or do you just want a general awareness of the volumes of their voices? As teachers, we... Continue Reading →

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