I wonder how it will look looking back on this period of time from the future. What will be different? What is to come? Will I still have a job by the end of all this? It is currently the end of the first week of lockdown in the UK following the global Covid-19 pandemic. […]
Month: March 2020
‘The needs of the many’ – Peer Observation (as observee) #2
Today my colleague ‘S’ observed me teach my morning B2 class. I had told her before the lesson that I was going to be mostly checking homework answers and following the textbook with the beginning of a new unit. The lesson began with checking the homework and then during the lead-in revision activity, the class […]
‘Spontaneous classroom combustion’ – Critical Incident #3
So every Monday and Friday, I teach a pre-intermediate lunchtime class which I share with a colleague on the other days of the week. Our institution requires teachers to complete a weekly scheme of work every Monday for the forthcoming week (running Tuesday to Tuesday). The downside to sharing a class is that often the […]