teaching

Saxony built its successful educational system from the scratch after the end of The German Democratic Republic (GDR, aka East Germany) in 1990, says Der Spiegel. In natural sciences, it is among the world’s top educational systems now - very different from most German schools elsewhere. There are traditional reasons for this, too. East Germany’s [...]

I don’t mean to sound like a bitter old schoolmarm, but when did it become the teacher’s job to stop lessons to provide supplies?  I remember forgetting my pen or pencil and asking to borrow one in whispers, hoping my teacher wouldn’t catch me unprepared. So usually when my teenage students announce “I don’t have [...]
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Today was the last class of this year and my kiddo’s wanted to play games instead of having a “real” lesson (for me after all it’s all a big play, hahaha).
So when I proposed to play hangman, I immediately got everyone excited!
Now here is something we (being brought up in the West) don’t think about [...]
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On xmas eve I had nothing particularly planned, so when David invited me to the Aihua dinner, I thought that to be a great evening-filling for me.
We went to a big restaurant called Da Dong Bei (???) one I didn’t know yet and, as I found out there, is a franchise with also a branch [...]
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Yesterday I could go teaching again, but when I arrived at the school they “asked” me whether it was ok to change to the school with 6yr olds. They promised it was for once only, Thursday I could go back to the ‘nice kids’. In the bus my co-teacher told me what the program was [...]
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