The theory goes that if you fill your head with fun & positivity, that’s what you’ll get more of in your life.    So let’s cut out the newspapers and TV and instead  learn a new positive word of phrase each day!

With all the talk of the modern classroom, there is one technology above all else that is favored in the education community. Teachers love it. Parents understand it. And kids, well kids tolerate it 🙂 It is of course the humble textbook. As a piece of technology, and it is a piece of technology, it…

Evita wrote in to ask: Hello!!! Oh, I love everything about your work!!!! Is there a time that you feel 100% sure that you’re doing a good job as a teacher or you’re always wondering? Is it only me or do other teachers as well have the same question? We’re all the same! 🙂  …

It’s not just language teaching, see my approach to Extreme Language Learning, with lots of stories I’ve never shared before,  in this video with Julian from Doing English!   It’s 45 minutes so grab a coffee and be sure to stick around to the end to get Julian’s best techniques on how to implement this in…

I was doing a consult this morning for a teacher who was finding it hard to make ends meet. Between shuttling up and down the city to lessons,  gasoline bills and students who cancel, even though she was working really hard and is an awesome teacher she was finding it so hard to make the…

My friend Mary, well actually *Dr* Mary Barbera, helps parents and teachers of autistic children.   This week, on Wednesday, she is running a free online video workshop.   If you have any Special Needs students then certainly check it out. I get a lot of requests for specific help with Special Needs students and…