Managing a Rowdy Classroom

The ‘Storm Method’ teaching technique I use when managing an enormous group of insane teenagers

Photo by Josep Castells on Unsplash

I usually aim to try my best with everything I do.

Currently with Medium I’m trying to write in such a way that a new article appears on my profile every day. I also try to submit articles to publications regularly so that they’re reviewed and released (hopefully) on an adjacent and complimentary release schedule.

I also do freelance work with Fiverr and independantly, and have bought both of my houses with money earned from acting.

However no career path I’ve ever taken has received the time, dedication, learning and research that I’ve poured into teaching.

Teaching — The golden apple career

Teaching is the career that actors can pursue once their bodies have broken down. Teaching is the career that writers can pursue during those all-too-common valleys of absolutely zero income.

Teaching has become the backbone of my personal economy, and I take that backbone as seriously as the one that holds my torso over my legs.

I teach in Shanghai, China as a travelling bard who moves between multiple schools a day. These schools are clients that have…