Mrs D's Funny Little Classroom

Balou is a Teddy Bear. He is forty years old. He has twelve children and twenty-four grandchildren. He has thirty-seven mouths to fe...

The method I use is called TPRS, Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling. It grew out of TPR, Total Physical Response, which ...

This story could be a Koan, one of the stories that Taoists used to teach their students about the world and themselves. I'm giving an...

(I'm posting this for the students that I can't get to because of the snow.) I was twenty-two years old and life was a treasure ...

"That is one reason why the 4%er teachers* are so ineffective. They lack spontaneity and view language as its structure and not what i...

(This story was created in class by students from 508. I was delighted by the imagination they showed and their willingness to play the gam...

Helping to learn. You can't teach anyone something they don't want to learn. So all a teacher can do is help students to learn. T...

Starting over .... Starting over is something I do often. I do something for a while, then things happen, life goes on and on, the world t...

February 2, 2011 Kepler Planet Hunter Finds 1,200 Possibilities By DENNIS OVERBYE Astronomers have cracked the Milky Way like a piñat...

A man dreamed that he was taken on a trip to the afterlife. First, he went to hell. There he saw a lot of people gathered around a large k...

What is your level in English? No one but you really knows what you are capable of doing, so the best way to determine your level in Englis...

November 13, 2010 Here’s a Woman Fighting Terrorism. With Microloans. By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF , LAHORE, Pakistan An old friend of min...