One thing I’m trying to get teachers to do more is to make the initial vocab introduction a bit more fun.  “Repeat after me” with a list of vocab is really boring! But doing a story or getting the kids’ opinions can make all the difference in making them lean forward and be interested or…

Discipline is one of those topics that people can’t seem to get enough of.  Quite a few of you have been using some of the ideas we discussed last year to great effect (e.g. here and here and here).  But what I find most useful is to look outside of teaching to find ways of…