Talk to the Clouds archive (to be removed soon)

  • The One-on-One Teaching Life

    My job is a little unusual. I’m not a Freeway Flyer, tenured community college instructor, or IEP teacher–I’m essentially a tutor, although I usually don’t use that word to describe my job. I think “tutor” makes people think of a college student earning a few dollars by teaching the neighbor kids how to do algebra, but…

  • Bear with me!

    If you’re visiting from CATESOL, please bear with me! I hope to launch this blog within a week. In the meantime, please leave a comment here to tell me what kinds of topics you’d like to see discussed in a TESOL blog, and what kinds of online resources you’re interested in. Thanks!

  • This blog’s name

    You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds. — Henry David Thoreau Letter to Mrs. Lucy Brown March 2, 1842 In this space I’ll be recording my thoughts on developing as a teacher of English to speakers of other languages, including sharing resources as I find them. TESOL is the main…

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