“A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove…but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.” Forest E. Witcraft

As parents, we play a major role in the right upbringing of our children.

Teachers play a pivotal role in student learning and development. From being vulnerable and naive, children grow up to become confident and pragmatic adults.

The classroom of teenagers ignored me, talking loudly with their backs turned towards me.

“They aren’t going to listen to you,” taunted Fear in my ear.

There was a momentary silence in the teens' conversation.

Using self-reflection as a powerful tool for learning, will allow students to discover what works best for them.

My experience of teaching has mainly been as a teacher in a classroom with foreign language students where English is the second or foreign language. It has always been a challenge but immensely rewarding to follow the development of my students’ language skills from beginner to advanced.

They were fighting in the corridor. And they were both bigger than I was. Sixteen years old, full of testosterone and with minimal self-control.

As the teacher asked the children to sit in a circle at the end of the lesson, I expected that she was about to share her thoughts on how those little buildings should have been made.

As I climbed the steps to the stage, I heard the back-slapping, testosterone brawl of the eighty or so young men who had been cajoled into the auditorium by their teachers.