Sometimes in life our actions have unexpected and even undesirable repercussions. I have a 12 year old son. He is an only child and has grown up in a somewhat nerdy household where we read a lot, believe learning another a language is normal and avoid a lot of mainstream media. His generation though …
Growth mindset
Is pedagogy essential to language teaching?
Pedagogy is defined as the “method and practice of teaching”. Pedagogy is where we learn the how of teaching. Most of us would agree it is as essential to a teacher as our content knowledge. It is just as difficult to be a Japanese teacher if you don’t know Japanese, as it is to teach Japanese as a …
Investing in you
Every time you take a flight you receive some excellent advice on life that most of us not only ignore, we fail to even acknowledge at the time. I am referring to the safety demonstration. The wisdom in the words “secure your own oxygen mask before helping others” is applicable to all aspects of our …
