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Different Reading Skills and Strategies
Reading is a skill that involves various strategies to enhance comprehension, retention, and enjoyment. Depending on the context and...
Jul 30, 20242 min read


Flipping the Script – Getting My Students to Teach Me
In my work, I teach a lot of one-on-one classes online to students. Until recently, my focus was primarily on teaching English as a...
Jul 9, 20243 min read


An IB MYP Integrated Humanities e-Assessment with Markscheme
Question 1 (Criteria A – 2 marks): Source A shows an increasing trend of CO2 emissions from 1950 - 2022. Outline one reason for this...
Jun 26, 20243 min read


An IB MYP Integrated Humanities e-Assessment
As I complete examining for this year’s MYP Integrated Humanities e-Assessment, I wanted to take up the challenge of creating an...
Jun 12, 20243 min read


Spicing Up Education through Indian Food: A Reflection on Week without Walls
This week, my school, Access International Academy Ningbo, is having a “Week without Walls,” where students go on various excursions and...
May 29, 20244 min read


Understanding the IB MYP Integrated Humanities E-Assessment
I teach IB MYP Individuals and Societies and have been an IB examiner for the MYP Integrated Humanities E-Assessment for the past three...
May 20, 20244 min read


Lesson Plan – Using Supporting Evidence to Justify a Claim
As a social studies teacher, I teach both content and skills. One skill I am focusing on with my Grade 7 students this term is on the use...
May 13, 20242 min read


G5 Social Studies Lesson on “Human Migration – Push and Pull Factors”
This year, I am teaching Grade 5 social studies at an international school in China. In this class, I have ten students, out of which...
Apr 30, 20242 min read


Book Review - Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto
I recently read “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling" by John Taylor Gatto and in this post, I want to reflect...
Apr 16, 20243 min read


Reflective Teaching – What I Learned at ETASHA
I am pursuing a master’s degree in education with a focus on advanced teaching, and this semester, I am enrolled in a course on research...
Mar 30, 20242 min read


Who Owns English?
I taught English for 6 years in Bogotá, Colombia, to non-native speakers in various contexts, including at the high school level,...
Mar 14, 20243 min read


Creative Writing: Exploring the RAFT Task
Designing assessments and tasks in a thoughtful way can not only assess students' knowledge and understanding but also foster creativity,...
Mar 8, 20242 min read


Book Review: “Teach Like a PIRATE: Increase Student Engagement, Boost Your Creativity, and Transform Your Life as an Educator” by Dave Burgess
Last month I wanted to refresh my mind and expose myself to some inspiration on how to teach my middle school students better. With this...
Jan 23, 20243 min read


My Reflection on our TOK Classes
This year, I started a new role in an international school in China. I am a middle school social studies, but also teach an elective to...
Jan 13, 20242 min read


Lesson Plan - Creativity as a Process
I started my career in skill development and training and then moved on to school education. And now, as a teacher, I constantly think...
Dec 8, 20232 min read


Lesson Plan - Analyzing Historical Artifacts to Learn about the Stone Age
I am teaching my grade 6 students about the stone age and to lead into the unit, I created a lesson on sources of history and analyzing...
Nov 14, 20232 min read


Teaching Younger Learners
I recently returned to teaching full time middle school social studies. For the past 3 years, I had been teaching university students and...
Nov 1, 20233 min read


Sapienship.lab - A Resource for Educators
Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli historian, professor, and author, best known for his critically acclaimed book "Sapiens: A Brief History...
Aug 12, 20232 min read


Using ChatGPT to learn English
Last week was my final class at the British Council, where I have been teaching English to adults and young learners for the past year...
Jul 30, 20232 min read


21st Century Skills for Success
My first job out of university, over 10 years ago, was at ETASHA Society, a non-profit organization based in New Delhi that focused on...
Jul 20, 20233 min read
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