Here are some tips for feeding back to a teacher following an observed lesson. I’ve been on both sides of it down the years! < Read more »

Everyone in EFL wings it from time to time. You didn’t have time to prepare or even think about your lesson, so you go in with the textbook and a cassette or a bunch of photocopies and fly by the seat of yer pants. With experience, you’ll even have some lessons so internalised that you can teach them, and maybe only need the whiteboard and a pen. Maybe not even those…

Be careful not to become a career winger though! In my opinion this is when you keep rolling out activity based lessons day after day.< Read more »

These Korean managers I have at my new school in Daegu are amazing. Got to give them credit as some entries in this blog give the impression that all EFL life in Korea is gruesome. Big flat, nice area, nice students, reasonable managers, decent money and…I’m impressed! So it is possible!< Read more »

One of the funniest EFL blogs out there is Sandy McManus. A really gifted comic with a sharp insight into the murky world of this business. Who knows how long this blog will be available to read now that he’s packed it in, but if you want a laugh, go back through his archives and enjoy. Can’t stop going on there and reading these little gems. Here’s an example of his writing on TEFL Summer schools:

http://tefltrade.blog-city.com/summer_schools__a_masochist_writes.htm

Only fair to mention an employer who offers good pay and reasonable working conditions - have to be balanced, don’t we? Big up to this school in Daegu - you can find it here on Dave’s: http://www.eslcafe.com/jobs/korea/index.cgi?read=30279