Teaching Teenagers English #1 Don’t wish your lessons away.

In this series of no-frills videos for teachers, methodology writer Chris Roland talks about teaching teenagers, providing tips, techniques, anecdotes and discussion about the psychological and emotional world of being a teens teacher. In this clip I talk about not wishing our lessons away, but trying to find a place in them for us to enjoy our teaching too. The challenge In each clip, I will also leave you with a task, challenge or point to reflect on. This time, I have asked you to think about the next class you are going to teach and to write down 1, 2 or 3 things that you think you might enjoy about that class. I have found this a very useful technique and it has even helped me out of some bleak times when I felt my teaching was hitting a slump. You may wish to extend the technique to all of your classes on a given day or a week. Please let me know in the comments section if... a) You like the idea of having a section on lesson plan pro-formas or templates where teachers writ