This global pandemic has taken a toll on the lives and health of many people worldwide. Foreign Policy writes that the next pandemic crisis is mental health. Though we teachers aren’t considered frontliners in this fight against COVID-19, I can only imagine the magnitude of stress that we’re all going through right now, what with…
Millennials are often thought of as an entitled, hard-to-understand, and difficult-to-please bunch. That’s a really prejudiced and unhelpful impression of this group of people born between 1981 and 1996. In the Philippines alone, they are 35 million strong and make up 53% working age population. That’s more than half of the working professionals in the…
Think of the best and worst teachers you’ve ever had. How did they make you feel? The impact of how you remember feeling about them all comes from the abundance or lack of emotional intelligence in these teachers. Daniel Goleman wrote a phenomenal book published in 1995 called Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More…
Albert Einstein said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” He also emphasized that “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” What better way to enhance one’s imagination than by enhancing one’s creativity? Many people believe that creativity is strictly related only to the arts. Nothing could be further from…
There’s magic in laughter. We instantly feel drawn to people who make us laugh. You can see the truth in that when you befriend your classmates in school or your colleagues at work or even when you meet your favorite comedians–when you meet them in real life, you feel like calling out their names in…
It has been almost a month since the quarantine season started getting us stuck at home most of the time. The biggest question is this: what have you done with your life lately? Has your life taken on a new meaning amid the COVID-19 crisis? We are in the midst of the most crucial of…
Unbeknownst to many, the main function of our brain is not for learning, but primarily for keeping us alive. Right! Our ancestral brain’s primary objective is to learn how to make us survive. Although it has been mentioned by social media influencers like Jay Shetty, Lewis Howes, and Simon Sinek, it continues to be a…
Before you attempt to ask the question, “How does one teach ESL online?”, you must first make sure that you are qualified to teach English in the first place. If any of the following is true for you, you are in it to win it in the ESL field. English is your mother tongue–meaning you…
In my more than 10 years of studying–even in my current master’s degree program–I have been observing what makes an outstanding teacher. And, so far, I have come to the following conclusion: an outstanding teacher is someone who makes a meaningful impact on his or her students, someone whom I will be able to remember…
While the global pandemic caused by COVID-19 is spreading throughout the world, the need for online English teachers is increasing rapidly. On Facebook alone, several companies are trying to recruit English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers who can work from home, partly because they know that many people around the world are stuck inside…