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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...
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About Words & Their Power
Before I start this post I’d just like to apologize for not posting for a long time… But I was on vacation and away from internet access. it was good to unplug, but it’s even better to be back! How...
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About 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...
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Sharing a Lesson on the 5 Senses
I was browsing through Jamie Keddie’s (@cheimi10) fantastic site for video lessons, just looking at what was new and came across something that wasn’t so new, but it called my attention nonetheless…a...
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Why do we take it so personally?
Scene: While walking in the hallway of the school where I work and am approached by the mother of a former student of mine. He was my student for 3 semesters in a period of 3 years. Mother: Cecilia!...
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The 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 –...
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A 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...
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Teacher: Talk in pairs. Student: Why? – A Guest post by Willy Cardoso
Willy and I enjoying a bit of sunshine in Brighton, during IATEFL It is a great pleasure and honor to introduce my new guest blogger. I first met Willy on Twitter. Amazingly enough we had been in the...
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Does Size (in a classroom) Matter?
Big or small - a sizable conundrum As regular people, we are constantly faced with size choices. Big cars are more spacious – but also more difficult to find a parking space for. Big houses and...
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Are We Adjusting?
Are we ready for the students we have? Something funny happened to me this last week… In a B1 (more like a B2, really) group of teens I have (14-15 years-old students) group I have we are discussing...
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