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My cover letters spanning the years

4 Feb 2023 4 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei

I'm teaching graduating students about cover letters and interview skills, and boy, am I on fire. I have changed many jobs throughout my teaching career and delight in imparting actionable insights gleaned from my hard-won experiences to my current s...

How to Ace Your Interview With Guru Heng

3 Feb 2023 1 minute read 2 comments cryotosensei

I have a colleague who is super enthusiastic about making videos for the school. Since I have cultivated a reputation as a stellar teacher (no hint of shame here), he recently approached me to ask if I would like to make an instructional video for th...

Bridging the literacy gap

29 Jan 2023 2 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei

I teach a class of dyslexic students, and one thing I need to do for/with them is to check that they know how to read all the sight words on the Dolch list. Getting their peers to read these words can be done as a speed task during spare moments in b...

My first inquiry-based English lesson!

9 Apr 2022 1 minute read 2 comments cryotosensei

When someone from the SG Learning Designers Circle, a FB group for teachers in Singapore, told me that when there’s a vowel before the consonant ‘y’, we just add ‘-ed’ to make the past tense form of the verb. Honestly, I had completely forgotten abou...