Hi

Hi

My name is Brooks Goodyear. I am a long term resident of Singapore and retrained as an ESL teacher about 5 years ago. I currently teach at a private language school. I have been lucky to have been exposed to many different areas of teaching and want to refresh my teaching with this course. I am hoping to learn from everyone and develop new methods to increase classroom communication and language and deal with different ages and abilities in the classroom.

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  1. Anne HendlerNovember 3, 2017 at 4:22 AM

    Nice to meet you!

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  2. Claudie GNovember 8, 2017 at 3:43 PM

    Glad you joined. I have already learned from others and I am enjoying comments from teachers from so many different frameworks/ different "classrooms" - some people are teaching in really extraordinary circumstances and I am inspired by them! I have it easy.

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