Hello all, Like many of you already know, I’m returning to Ireland to teach for the next academic year. As a result of this, I’ve already started to apply for jobs even though I’m still in Qatar at the moment. In this post, I’m going to shed some light on what I’ve been doing in… Read More Applying for Jobs while Abroad
As mentioned in previous posts, Whole Class Guided Reading: Scratching the Surface and Making a Start and Teaching Essential Reading Skills Beyond the Words, teaching inference skills to children is very complex and takes a lot of patience and guidance. To “infer” information from a text requires an awful lot of higher-order thinking, to which a lot of… Read More Teaching Inference through Pictures
I love receiving messages on Instagram from people, asking about what there is to do in Qatar. There was keen interest on my Instagram about ‘Weekends in Doha’ so I decided to put a little post together, outlining some of the things you can do when you’re not teaching. Or alternatively, if you’re traveling to… Read More Weekends in Doha: What you could do.