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Rethinking the Last Day of Class By: Heather Kretschmer So, I’m curious. If you teach classes where you have to give grades, do you finish your semester or school year

A Little Treat for Myself By: Curtis Kelly We always tell our students about ourselves, but how many times do they get to do the same to us? In my

An Emotional Emoji Ending By: David Kluge I teach General English to 25 students at a university in Nagoya, Japan. Of 15 class meetings, I start with two face-to-face class

Touching Hearts at the End of Class By: Curtis Kelly No matter how much I mess up a class, ending with a touching story always gets the students to overlook

What Do You Get When a Book, a Bird, and an Angel…? By: William Kumai At Nanzan Junior College (now closed) in Nagoya, Japan, I taught a year and a

What is Your Score for Today? By: Amanda Gillis-Furutaka This is an activity that I learned from the students in my university’s English Studying Society (ESS–a club for students who

Ending the Semester with a Song By: Christopher Regier When I think back to my Grade 8 science and math classes taught by Mr. Anderson, two things stand out: killer

Be Thankful! By: Harumi Kimura My routine practice in ending a class, any class including those of language and lecture, is to have students express gratitude to their partner of

An Award to Remember By: Jonathan Baker Many of us chose to become teachers because we ourselves had life-changing moments with our own teachers in the past. For me, perhaps

Finishing on Time: A Quiet Form of Care By: Glenn Magee Editors’ note: Glenn also created a related storybook using Google Storybook: link. While the end of the academic year