This article is about a very important subject that could affect a high percentage of teachers who are presently teaching for extensive hours a day online. I am not a doctor, I am not selling a product, or recommending a service, I am a pre-diabetic English teacher, and this article is based upon my own research to discover the changes that have affected my own health during more than a year of teaching every day online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The reason why I started investigating was that I found that my own health had slowly, and progressively started to suffer during this period of extended physical inactivity. After going to the clinic and having a medical checkup, I was shown that I had unknowingly progressed from prediabetes, a condition that I have had for about 6 years, and which is not uncommon at my age, to full type-2 diabetes. In addition, my own 25-year-old daughter, who is also an English teacher, started to feel unwell, tired, and mentally lethar...
David White is an Australian English teacher who has been living in Peru since 2001. In partnership with his wife Claudia, they are the owners of ¨English For You Language Institute´, an institute that specializes in the teaching of all levels of English from Basic (A1) to Advanced (C2) including international exam preparation. They are also the owners of ELT Educational Services and David is also the Headmaster of the American School, a respected bilingual ib school in Northern Peru.