DOOFUS AND VALIANT: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL

By English Teacher X
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There are two English teachers working abroad.
One is named Doofus. 
The other is named Valiant.
They are very different teachers. 
Let’s look at some things that they do.  

























To understand these next ones, you first need to know what a Cuisenaire Rod is.
Basically Cuisenaire Rods are these sort of square oblong colored sticks.
I quote from Wikipedia:  
Though primarily used for mathematics, they have also become popular in language-teaching classrooms, particularly The Silent Way.They can be used
to demonstrate most grammatical structures such as prepositions of place, comparatives & superlatives, determiners, tenses, adverbs of time, manner, etc.,
to show sentence and word stress, rising and falling intonation and word groupings,
to create a visual model of constructs, for example the English verb tense system [5]
to represent physical objects: clocks, floor-plans, maps, people, animals, fruit, tools, etc. which can lead to the creation of stories told by the students

Like many aspects of English teaching theory, these prove to be absolutely laughable in application.

They are, basically, useful nowhere except in an English teacher training class where the instructor is an old hippie.  








Which are you, a Doofus or Valiant?



ENGLISH TEACHER X (www.englishteacherx.com) is a 15-year veteran of many terrible language schools all around the world. 
He is the author of ENGLISH TEACHER X GUIDE TO TEACHING ENGLISH ABROAD, a cynical look at the international TEFL scene.
TO TRAVEL HOPELESSLY, a memoir, describes his first five years of teaching English in Thailand, Korea, New York, Prague, and Russia. 
His latest book about English teaching is SPEAKING ACTIVITIES THAT DON’T SUCK, detailing ways to force recalcitrant students to produce a lot of English in class. 
His most recent book is HOW TO SURVIVE LIVING ABROAD, a survival guide for those thinking of traveling or living in other countries, also available as a paperback and ebook.