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I worked in recruitment for a time and what Suzy says definitely rings true. A few of the ESL teachers we were looking at weren't completely truthful about their qualifications and background. If new teachers cannot provide you with original copies of their qualifications and letters of reference, ...

Sally Olsen, You have wonderful ideas, but as Roger says, I can't follow any of them because they aren't in the curriculum. Your stations sounds like preschool in the States, wonderful, where kids have fun and don't have to study study study and never play. As for parents, some are too busy that the...

I'm teaching at a kindergarten, have my own class of 18 kids age 4. I'm having lots of discipline problems, they never listen to me or the chinese teacher, They are loud and things have to be said over and over and over. NOthing seems to work, any suggestinos? We've tried stars and strikes, 5 stars ...

Just wondering., where did you study sign language?

I'm teaching at a kindergarten and they just announced that we are supposed to teach our kids a new vocab group and sentence pattern every week. I'm frantic, I don't know what to teach next, I"m running out of ideas. Anyone have any other voca groups for 4 year old children? Or good websites? I've s...

I'm looking for some new strip stories. Here are two, but I'd like some others for beginners and intermediate groups. Thanks Sandwiches Tom, *beep*, and Harry were sitting on the top of the Marriot Hotel. Their job was to repair the roof. It was lunchtime so they were taking a break. Tom said, ̶...

Thanks for the ideas. The website is awesome! Very useful.

I'm looking for controversial sayings to use as discussion in a high level class. Example: A woman's place is in the home. Everyone is selfish Boys and Girls should have the same education. I've used these and wanted to know if anyone knew of some other good ones or some websites with quotes or sayi...

There is only one student and he is learning intermediate English. No-specific purpose.

Anyone know good activities for private intermediate level students? Most of the game in activity books require at least 4 students.