Shifa Desai
ESL teacher interested in the holistic development of professionals. She collects stories of teachers' accounts of the lows and wows of classroom life and the job of living.
Articles by Shifa Desai
Confessions of a slacke...
I prep and I plan and I go, go, go! I teach and I talk and say no, no, no! It’s vocab Then grammar And adverbs of manner It’s iPads and apps …. And students taking naps! It’s an....
A philosophical approac...
A few cycles ago, (yes, Foundation teachers measure time in teaching cycles), I got a bad student faculty evaluation. Now like a lot of stretched-to-capacity teachers, I am prone to think that my its-...
Gen X teacher, Millenni...
8.05 a.m. 21 of the 24 students hovering over their Samsungs struggle against my insistence that their beloved mobile phones can wait another 45 minutes or so. My Generation X work ethic wants to inst...
Confessions of a slacke...
I prep and I plan and I go, go, go! I teach and I talk and say no, no, no! It’s vocab Then grammar And adverbs of manner It’s iPads and apps …. And students taking naps! It’s an....
A philosophical approac...
A few cycles ago, (yes, Foundation teachers measure time in teaching cycles), I got a bad student faculty evaluation. Now like a lot of stretched-to-capacity teachers, I am prone to think that my its-...
Gen X teacher, Millenni...
8.05 a.m. 21 of the 24 students hovering over their Samsungs struggle against my insistence that their beloved mobile phones can wait another 45 minutes or so. My Generation X work ethic wants to inst...