I’ll never forget one of the first ELL classes that I taught. It was focused on speaking and listening, and I was blessed with a...

Today is our first entry in a series called "The Context of English Teaching-the US and Abroad." Over the next year, we will have guest...

Some teachers are lucky. They have fantastic textbooks that provide all the material one could possibly need to teach an English lesson. ...

We’ve all had it happen-the moment when a student asks you something that you don’t know. If you’re lucky, it’s one-on-one or during...

Ah Christmas... that wonderful, magical, and somewhat crazy time of year. Our mailboxes are stuffed to the brim with Christmas offers...

I admit it. I’m a workaholic. I actually enjoy spending hours upon hours planning lessons and perfecting them. When I first started...

ESL is a field of highs and lows. When it comes to the financial part of the job, though, I have to admit that it's mostly lows. I...

I admit it. I'm a bit of a pack rat. I've always been that way and teaching kind of exacerbated things. When we got married, my husband...

I love working in the field of ESL...and I hate it. I love the students who teach me so much every day about their cultures and...