Would you like classroom-tested insight into what works in the ESL classroom - and why?
This blog explores practical ESL / EAL strategies, reflections, and ideas shaped by over 34 years of real classroom experience.
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I’m an experienced educator and resource creator with over 34 years in primary, secondary, and international schools. My work has focused on language and literacy, EAL support, curriculum development, and teacher training. I created the Contented Being resource series for IB English B and the Right Fast academic vocabulary games for ESL learners. I also write, present workshops, and continue to enjoy sharing what the classroom has taught me - from China, where I’m currently based.
ESL-WISE
Welcome to my blog, ESL-WISE, a space I’ve created as I near the end of my in-class teaching career.
After more than thirty years in classrooms with second language learners, I’ve collected plenty of ideas, experiments, and lessons from the things that worked and the things that didn’t. This blog is my way of sharing some of that experience.
It’s not a set of rules or a grand theory. It’s a working notebook: part reflection, part practical guide. Sometimes I’ll look back at what I’ve learned over the years; other times I’ll explore what’s changing in our field and why it matters.
I’m not writing as someone with all the answers. I’m writing as a teacher who’s spent a lifetime asking questions, trying things out, and learning from the students in front of me.
If anything here sparks an idea for your own classroom, then it’s done what I hoped.
All views expressed here are entirely my own and do not represent the opinions of any institution I have worked for, past or present.
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