A few years ago, I got annoyed at students using “favourite teacher” like it was some kind of power play. I started to teach my students that the answer to “who is your favourite teacher?” is always the name of whatever teacher is in the room. I could never have predicted the dizzying heights of…
There is no denying that students have a fascination with personal details about their teachers, and age, especially, seems to capture the wonder of students of any age, and in any country. I have countless anecdotes about my age, mostly my own regrets, when a student asks how old I am, and I ask them…
Over my, probably far too many, years in teaching, I have amassed a never-ending cycle of fairly wholesome anecdotes about my classes, and today, I would like to share one that has particularly stuck with me. I once taught an upper-school student who was terrified of spiders. Their fear of spiders reverted them back to…