Using games in the classroom to teach skills and values

Gender equality, healthy eating, citizenship, critical thinking, cybersecurity, or love are all fundamental to our students’ personal development. They are all cross-curricular topics that often pop up tangentially when teaching teenagers, but rarely explicitly. How can we give them the space they deserve without losing our linguistic focus? The answer lies in the methodology we […]

Tell your story! (We all have stories that we need to tell)

Let’s be honest for a second. We’ve all been there. You walk into the classroom, open the textbook, and hide behind grammar matrices or rigid lesson plans because it feels safe. But if you ask me, the real power of storytelling in language teaching isn’t in the syllabus—it’s sitting right there in your own life […]