Taking a Walk in the Learners’ Shoes – A Guest Post by David Dodgson
It is my greatest pleasure to introduce the first guest blogger of Box of Chocolates in 2011. David Dodgson is a British English teacher who lives and teaches young learners in Ankara, Turkey. I was...
View ArticleAbout Mountains, Challenges and Teaching – My guest post for Teaching Village
I was very humbled and deeply honored to be invited by Barbara Hoskins Sakamoto (@Barbsaka) to write a guest post for her blog, Teaching Village. Not only I admire Barb as a teacher and educator, but...
View ArticleThe Fluency Dichotomy: Writing X Speaking
Writing samples - Creative Commons photo by Chuni (via Flickr) Something has been puzzling me for a while… I teach mostly more advanced groups (B2 and on) and many of them have had experiences abroad –...
View ArticleMy (initial) two cents on Assessing students…
Photo by Shemer (on Flickr) CC This weekend thousands of educators from all over the world will take part in The Reform Symposium, which will happen between today, July 29th and Sunday, July 31st. The...
View ArticleA Drop and a Drop Out Through the Rock
Can we break through the "toughest" students? (Photo by Marcelo A.H. Penna on Flickr - CC License) My latest post was about new beginnings and the challenges that commonly come with them… Challenges...
View ArticleBefore a Language Teacher… I was a Language Learner
For me, one of the best things about blogging is reading the comments after the blog ans seeing how people from different places, different contexts and experiences read and understand the same post....
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