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Common Sensical Advice
Reblogged from Making a Difference: Georgian classrooms are quite different than most American classrooms I’ve ever been in. The classes can be huge here (up to 35 students – too many!), some kids will never have proper materials for class … Continue reading
Posted in Georgian Language, Georgian Life, TLG (Teach and Learn in Georgia)
Tagged abroad, advice, arrival, class, classroom, coming, common, education, expats, foreigners, georgia, georgian, guidance, language, learn, prior, pupil, russian, schools, sense, sensical, student, suggestions, system, teach, teacher, teaching, tlg, wanderers
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Street Vending: Should it be Legalised or Should the Poor be Allowed to Continue?
This morning I received an invitation to a talk given in Tbilisi by a PhD student about how the poor in Georgia use different coping mechanisms to survive, one of which is street vending. Without speaking to the PhD student, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Georgian Life
Tagged budget, busking, class, current-events, daily, different coping mechanisms, disability, disabled, divide, drunk, ends, finance, flowers, georgia, illegal, law, legal, life, making, marginalised, meet, money, officer, people, plants, police, politics, poor, rich, sakartvelo, sales, seed sellers, seeds, selling, society, street, struggle, sunflower, survival, talk, tbilisi, tight, vending, vendor
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Teachers Can Be Students
Reblogged from Making a Difference: Lately, the most popular topic of discussion in the staffroom has been the National Exam that teachers need to take by 2014; otherwise they will be out of work. Most of the teachers in my … Continue reading
Posted in Georgian Language, Georgian Life, TLG (Teach and Learn in Georgia)
Tagged be, books, can, celta, children, class, education, educational, efl, english, esl, expat, foreign, georgia, georgian, kids, language, learn, lessons, ministry, reform, resources, science, second, students, teach, teachers, teaching, tefl, tlg, values, western
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Writing Lesson Plan
Reblogged from Making a Difference: This ripped-from-the-headlines Lesson Plan has sort of developed over the last few months and I have found that in the chaotic and resource-deprived Georgian classrooms, it helps to calm the class, restore some order and … Continue reading
Posted in Georgian Life, TLG (Teach and Learn in Georgia), Uncategorized
Tagged child, children, class, classses, co-teacher, education, english, esl, foreign, foreigner, format, georgia, georgian, kids, language, learn, lesson, plan, sakartvelo, size, student, system, teach, teacher, teaching, teenager, teens, tefl, tlg, volunteer, young people
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I extended my TLG contract! Here's why.
Reblogged from Making a Difference: The other day, one of my third graders (one of the four Giorgi’s in that class and about a hundred in the school) asked how long I would be staying at their school. “Until December,” … Continue reading
Posted in Georgian Life, TLG (Teach and Learn in Georgia), Uncategorized
Tagged and, children, class, classes, contract, director, education, esl, extended, foreigner, georgia, georgian, here, kids, learn, lessons, letters, ministry, opportunity, plans, principal, programme, reform, sakartvelo, school, science, students, system, teach, teacher, tefl, tlg, why, with
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Mid-May
Reblogged from Making a Difference: It’s mid-May, and the end of the school year is a month away. Volunteers who are leaving Georgia – for vacation or forever – already have their flight itineraries. Now commences the countdown. 30 days … Continue reading
Posted in Georgian Life, TLG (Teach and Learn in Georgia), Uncategorized
Tagged class, classroom, english, esl, family, footprints, foreign, foreigner, georgia, georgian, host, kids, language, learn, may, mid, sakartvelo, school, seasons, teach, teacher, teaching, tefl, tlg, weather
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No Touching
Reblogged from Making a Difference: I know I risk sounding like the Professor Snape of TLG with all these posts about how kids in Georgia need a little discipline in their diets, but it’s taken me a while to put … Continue reading
Posted in Friendship, Georgian Life, TLG (Teach and Learn in Georgia), Uncategorized
Tagged affection, american, children, class, classroom, contact, corridor, display, education, ethics, etiquette, formality, friendship, georgia, gielfrien, gifts, hand, hierarchy, hugging, kids, kissing, learn, peers, physical, presents, public, question, relationships, respect, rules, schools, shake, shower, social, standards, status, teach, teaching, teens, tlg, touching, usa
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A New Year’s Blog
Happy New Year!! First of all, I’d like to wish you all a very Happy New Year, Hogmanay, and 2012. It isn’t actually New Year in Georgia yet, in fact we haven’t even had Christmas, as that is on 7th … Continue reading
Posted in Georgian Life, My PhD: Environmental Psychology, Oceans Project, Teaching and Geography, The Pets, TLG (Teach and Learn in Georgia), Uncategorized
Tagged british, cat, children, class, classroom, connection, duke, edexcel, education, esl, friendship, gcse, geography, georgia, house, igcse, international, kids, learning, life, ocean, oceans, project, sakartvelo, school, secondary, tbilisi, teach, teacher, teaching, tefl, tlg, travels
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