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Personally, I make it a point to tell each student their grade BEFORE I submit them to the school. That way at least each student knows what grade they earned from me whether the school changes them or not. On a slight tangent, my school decided to amalgamate two classes which had been taught by dif...

Thanks guys, I really like the board game idea, they can be VERY competitive when they want to. I'll have to look around for some friendly shopkeepers, most of them get annoyed and accuse me of wasting their time when they realise we have no intention of buying something, although I suppose I could ...

Have, am and will continue to. Grades 6, 7 and 8, hmmm. I currently have classes with Grades 5 and 6, they're older primary school children. I'd guess yours will be in the 9-12 year old bracket, that's where most of the work is at the moment. As I said before your biggest problem will be getting the...

I find the biggest problems my students have with presentations is a complete lack of public speaking experience. When they get up in front of a group of people they tend to panic, freeze, try to hide or just tense up. I think we as teachers (who do it every day) tend to forget how frightening it ca...

The first class is always easy, nerve wracking, but easy. I always do introductions, it's the first conversation topic they need to know about and they're meeting you for the first time too. Simply introduce yourself to the class, who you are, where you come from, what you like to do, what you HATE ...

I need some help. Twice a week I have a two hour class with the boss' son and two of his friends. They're typical Grade 2 Middle School students, he's got quite good English but the other two struggle in a basic conversation. The main problem is that the classes begin at 5pm when they're exhausted, ...