How do you deal with difficult bosses, unclear instructions, nasty comments and high expectations? Only once in my life, I had this type of boss (by that time, I was working in an office. Nothing teaching-related) and I would get everything already stated and more. My usual way of going was trying t...

In the past I used to be bullied too and I ended it by confronting the problem. They stoped bothering and I felt better with myself after that... This happened to me too and I can tell you, I did all the things @Pink_Turtle said and none worked. Since I was being bullied by a single person, I ended...

Most students that don't talk in the classroom are just kind of too shy and scared of making a mistake. In my case, I always tried to make a special connection with those students specifically, so they could talk freely without thinking that I (or any other classmate) would judge them. It's also goo...

Since you're a college professor (you teach adults basically) you can simply ask them to leave the class. I was a teenage and kids teacher, and unless there was a bigger reason, I couldn't ask them to leave my class so instead, I would make the more talkative students switch seats or make them sit r...

I used to play the name game as an icebreaker (a funny game in which you have to say your name, and an adjective that starts with the same letter: Victuous Victoria, in my case). This was with students from my own country. I was wondering, how do you connect with students from other cultures? What k...

I think it should be mandatory to at least know a little bit of conversational local for teaching. It's a great way to connect with the students, plus there are always those subjects that need to be explained in local, especially on the most basic levels. Not knowing the language can become an obsta...