June 2025

this year was a bit strange. learned a lot. it felt like i am back at year0 teaching for the very first time. i have started to forget that feeling of stepping into a class and feeling like stepping into a whole new universe governed by unique laws. it was both good and difficult. here, below, are some of the main things that i learned this year:

• prefacing every session with a video can do wonders to students' attention spans and degree of interest in the lesson.
• staying calm is key.
• the hardest sessions to handle are usually the last sessions of the day (mainly afternoon sessions).
• Bathroom passes for students worked like a charm (mainly with younger students).
• using interactive worksheets save so much time during the correction phase of an activity.
• using the hidden countries game as a warm up works great with both beginers and advanced learners (students loved it).