Is this a new teacher I see before me? 'Tis but a phantom
No, no, it’s real enough. Probably. We’ve managed to get our full complement of teachers even though it seemed that we wouldn’t. Our original new English teacher never made it because she’d already signed another contract and seems to have been fishing. Colonel Blimp and I both suspect she would’ve been difficult. In her place, we have an Australian. I don’t wish to cast aspersions, but as their year is completely out of sync with ours (they have their finals in October), I have to wonder what our man’s motivation is. He has almost no EFL experience, and no IB or IGCSE experience. This may not matter too much, but IB is very philosophy driven. To wander off on a tangent, why is there not IB teacher training college where the drones can be trained to think the IB way? At the end of the process, neutered works emerge spouting the IB leaner profile, and approaches to teaching and learning by heart. The problem here is the lack of international mindedness. ¶ It must be great whe