Wow! Well, it seems like the ESL section of my website is more popular than I imagined. There are tons of teachers out there doing what we teachers do best… stealing goodies from other teachers, namely me. It makes me happy to see it going on. Another teacher, in New Zealand, has sent me some […]
When I started teaching, as a teachin assistant in Montreal (which at my University meant I was the professor for a freshman class), I didn’t understand that I wasn’t quite supposed to be the same Gord in the classroom as, say, at home. I thought, look, my job is to show people how to do […]
Here’s article about how more attractive professors score higher on student evaluations. Now I am curious to see what my student evaluations will look like. In Montreal, I was a lot heavier and I scored pretty well, but I thought it was all the time and work I put into my teaching. Maybe it was […]
In this article, Chinese Girls’ Toil Brings Pain, Not Riches, I found something that got me thinking: She and her friend Wei Qi, also 16 and also a Chinese farm girl barely out of junior high school, had been lured here by a South Korean boss who said he was prepared to pay $120 a […]
내… 금요일에, 좋은 주말 보고싶었지만 금요일 아침에 일작 일어났어… 왜? 원야하면 사랑니 하나 너무 너우 아프다! 오늘은 칙과에 가야되… 아이고. 언재 재미 있는 주말 있을 수 있어요? 하지만 오재 오후 부터 밤까지 좋은 친구 만났고 공나물 국밥 먹었고 이상한 영화 봤어요. 만남는 시간에 이상한 것은 많이 봤지만 좋은 금요일 이였어요. 빨리 칙과에 가요… 안녕!