Before moving to Spain to be an Auxiliar de Conversación, it’s hard to imagine what life will look like in the classroom. What will the job entail? What will your relationship be with the students? And the teacher? What will the day-to-day look like? Will you be planning lessons? There are so many questions and […]
Hello, hello! I have been thinking about starting a new series for A Spoonful of TLC, and since many of my readers are current or future auxiliares de conversación (language and culture assistants here in Madrid), then I thought I would do a short summer series all about that. For today’s topic, I am going […]
I have officially been working from home and teaching for VipKid for 100 days! If you don’t know what that is, it’s a company based in China that connects Chinese students with American teachers to learn English through their online portal.image source I work from home, which allows me to bring in an extra $400-$1000 […]
In no particular order, these are all some great games that I routinely “pull out of my bag’ when there is, um, like 25 extra minutes of class and I have nothing else to do. They’re simple, fun, and easy to adapt to all levels! [Click each title to see how to play the games] […]
Last year, I spent a lot of time just randomly doing Google searches to find materials for my private lessons-basically, where to find good resources for teaching ESL classes. This year, I have done a better job of finding websites that continuously have good materials for private lessons. You know, materials that don’t have random ads all […]
This is a typical Wednesday- definitely my longest and most grueling day of the week, but also my last “difficult day”, as I finish work at 1:20 pm on Thursday, with no lessons in the afternoon, and no work on Fridays. Life is too good… On Mondays and Thursdays, I start work at 9:20, so […]
I did a few of these ¨Say What¨posts in the beginning of the year, when the things that my students would say would shock me. Say What 1 Say What 2 I´m more used to them now, but this one was too good not to write… While teaching the kids about the future tense using […]
How’s that for a title?? Truth be told, private lessons are not that bad once you get there and are in the thick of it, but boy do I dread them before they happen. Some of my students are great and I mildly look forward to them, but I also have students on the other […]
When teaching a group of six 5-year-olds In the middle of a lesson about rooms in the house, one of them says, “What the f*ck!” And then they all repeat, “What the f*ck!” And they are cracking up. I tell them they can’t say that and it’s a bad word and they all look at […]