“School talk” — My biggest pet peeve
One of the biggest challenges I face teaching in China (also my biggest pet peeve) is what I call “school talk”. It seems that students enter a completely different state of mind when they cross the threshold of the classroom. They cease to use common sense or basic logical thinking, and instead devote their brain [...]
A Message to Our Teachers
As you’ve seen from the previous post, last Wednesday was Teacher’s Day here in China. Each member of RCEF’s staff was responsible for helping a grade prepare ways to thank their teachers for their hard work.
I was responsible for fourth grade, and together we decided to act out dramas to show situations in which teachers [...]
