Mrs D's Funny Little Classroom

I am an American who has been teaching English as a foreign language to French speakers since 1967.   I have taught in Quebec, in Camero...

 The four principles of the fish philosophy: 1. Be There – show up physically, mentally and emotionally 2. Play – enjoy what you do 3. M...

Ben Slavic says, "As you interact with students, check to see if they are fulfilling the requirements of Interpersonal Communication. I...

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...