Name this popular food in Afghanistan

Students learning Pashto
It is your attitude and NOT your aptitude
that determines your altitude.


National Museum of Afghanistan

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Say each one twice in a row
tindal ma ta tindal ta ta tindal wakhato hawa ta.
Stanjali Pastanjali Jajmajali Khan.
daka dewa tol thail thal.

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My favorite. Afghani Lamb Kebab.

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God can see a black ant walk on a black
stone in a black night.

The History of Kabul

Learn all about Kandahar here

Herat is the third largest city in Afghanistan

An Ad For Learning Another Language From YouTube If this turtle can learn Pashto you can too.

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Khufu Great Pyramid

We want to race Ben Hur three times
around the Roman Coliseum Arena.
Now, get those two birds out of our path.

Can you tell me what this is called?

Our Pashto teacher has lots of CLASS

Whenever you can in your own environment, ask to observe colleagues in action in their Pashto classroom. Pick up ideas that work for them and adopt and adapt them to you own classroom. Always be on the "lookout" for new ideas, new means of teaching, new ways to incorporate things that work for others into your own methodology. Don't hesitate to ask questions of Pashto teachers who have had much success as to how and why that happened. I used to observe elementary teachers and how they interacted with their young students. Always something to learn. "Learn from the mistakes of others. You'll never live long enough to make all of them yourself." Another that I always believed in is - If you think you're green, you'll grow - if you think you're ripe, you'll rot. All true. Don't rot! That's an axiom that will never grow old. You may think that you are the best, but you're not. There is always someone better than you. (I learned this playing basketball) Learn from them. Know what the best practices are and be aware of the current online resources that can be of great help to you and your Pashto language students.

Keep your Pashto classroom presentations FRESH. Keep up with innovation and the changing needs of your students by incorporating technology such as computer use, iPhones, iPads, e-mail and a host of other innovations into your routine classroom activities to communicate with others in the target language and to access authentic resources. Stay current with options and trends in the field such as the National Standards and know how to incorporate them into your daily plans. Hopefully these few ideas will aid in your growth and success. Stay with it. Don't throw in the towel like many have, but again as I point out above, whatever new ideas you discover, you must first adopt and then adapt. Not everything you see elsewhere will work for you as I have personally learned. You must adapt those ideas to your own classroom. There are a host of great ideas available on all these sites, but they are only as successful as you will make them. And perhaps most important of all, do ask your students often how they feel about what they are doing and learning and what they enjoy the most and the least in your classroom. Most of all, do enjoy your Pashto students and share yourself with them. [They don't care how much you know until they know how much you CARE] I hope that you picked up some ideas here that will aid in your total success. Have fun in your classroom. (ps I picked up these ideas in a recent dream and wanted to share with each of you) I'm 78 now, but never too old to learn and never too old to share ideas. Best yet, why not be learning another language yourself? Check out one of the sites above. It is a great means to experience first-hand what your students are feeling. Now you are "walking in their shoes." Don't forget to have FUN doing it. (See Below)