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March 2015

Would You buy what your’re selling? The importance of passion in the classroom

[The following is a guest blog post by Lara. Read more about the author here.] My name’s Lara. I’m a copywriter. I come up with the words that most effectively sell a product or campaign. Want to hire me? No? Hmmm… let’s try that again. Words have power. Words tell stories. Words are how we communicate, make connections, build relationships. The right words in the right places can inspire, compel and even convert. A picture may be worth a thousand words but only words can paint mental pictures, pictures that connect directly to your imagination - whic[...]

Teachers Are Heroes

I did my student teaching at a school in Cape Town, South Africa. It's an amazing school, with incredibly dedicated teachers doing great work with teenagers from a particularly rough neighbourhood. Many of these kids come from challenging home situations, have been driven into gangs, and subjected to drugs and violence on a daily basis. Teaching large classes (45-50 students to a class) in this school is not an easy task and was certainly an eye-opening and challenging experience as a student teacher. Many tears were shed. However, while there, I had the most i[...]