Teacher Dude's Grill and BBQ

Ok, kids, what are the three branches on the US government?

After so many months of silence I have decided to start writing here again. After the refugee camp in Idomeni in northern Greece was shut...

It has been a particularly difficult summer here in Greece for everyone, rising prices, galloping unemployment and deep salary cuts have mad...

I guess I've taken a break from reporting what has been happening here in Thessaloniki as I need some time and space for myself and do t...

The school year has started once again here in Greece and once again I am getting back into the swing of things a far as teaching is concern...

I don't think I believe it either I don't think I could ever have conceived in my wildest dreams that a million people would want to...

Student a: But I don't know how to download stuff on the internet. Me: Oh come on, it's easy. Then again, I've been using comput...

, originally uploaded by Teacher Dude's BBQ . Once again, the school year has begun and once again I have to persuade students and...

The school year has more or less finished for me here in Thessaloniki. My students have taken their exams and the language school where i wo...

The exam season is almost over. The English learning alphabet soup of CPE, FCE, ECCE etc, has once again taken place and I wish my students ...

Sometimes it is only when I look back at the pictures I take that I realise how varied my days have become. All the photographs are from tod...

Photo by Puja I promised Theodora that I would come up with a lesson for the New York Times article on Thessaloniki ( click here ). So here...

Today I was helping my daughter (aged seven) with her homework and she asked me to check put some exercise she'd been given to do over ...

Image by Gaping Void I have recently started doing private lessons with a doctor. We meet once a week and I help him with his spoken English...

Photo by icathing The more I create my own material the less satisfied I become with the teaching resources available commercially. In the v...

One blog that I regularly read is Cool Cat teacher , which is by Vicki Davis, a middle school teacher from Georgia, USA. She also has a podc...

"In fact, one of the saddest but most common conditions in elementary school computer labs (when they exist in the developing world), i...

At long last, my lonely struggle as Greece’s premier - (read only) edublogger has paid off. Yep, I’ve been awarded Time magazine’s person o...

While getting my daily dose of news at the BBC site I came across this story about the Broadclyst community primary school in England that...

While surfing (in vain) for other Greek language schools using blogging I came across a site that, as the saying goes, "Tells it as it ...