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The Soft Skills of Survival Teaching

Teaching in July, or even just thinking like a teacher during the holidays is not failing at rest. It’s exercising a set of professional skills that don’t get named often enough.
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This Lesson Is Dead. Now What? An Academic Postmortem & 10 Teaching Spells

A dead lesson in June does not mean you are a bad teacher. It means it is June.
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Storytelling Is Not Improvisation (And Teachers Need to Hear That)

Stop the "creative chaos". Here are 7 structured storytelling activities for EFL teachers who prefer logic over improvisation. Perfect for hesitant students!
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The Soft Skills of Survival Teaching

Teaching in July, or even just thinking like a teacher during the holidays is not failing at rest. It’s exercising a set of professional skills that don’t get named often enough.
Read more

This Lesson Is Dead. Now What? An Academic Postmortem & 10 Teaching Spells

A dead lesson in June does not mean you are a bad teacher. It means it is June.
Read more

Storytelling Is Not Improvisation (And Teachers Need to Hear That)

Stop the "creative chaos". Here are 7 structured storytelling activities for EFL teachers who prefer logic over improvisation. Perfect for hesitant students!
Read more

Classroom Management as Dark Arts: Housekeeping in the Evil Lair

Today we're talking Magic through Housekeeping: how to tidy the room and air out those cluttered student minds.
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Villains Teach Better: A Wickedly Practical Guide

Let's embrace our inner villain... for educational purposes, obviously!
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Schrödinger’s Relationship: Conditional Love

This February on That Is Evil, let’s teach “love” the only way that makes sense: through conditional sentences and a healthy dose of dark humour.
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Slightly Evil Self-Care Tips for Overachieving Teachers

So here’s to the new year, same chaos, same you, just slightly wiser and marginally better hydrated.
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The Evil Teacher’s Guide to Surviving December

If you can’t beat the holiday madness, join it... but with an evil grin.
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Why Dark Academia Works in the Classroom

November is perfect for the elegance of gothic academia and the misty gloom of November are a match made in a candlelit library!
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Every lesson is a story worth telling…

My name is Monika Bigaj-Kisała, I’m an EFL teacher, a gamer and a storyteller. For 17 years I have taught English to students of all ages in Poland, Ireland and England. Since 2016, I have also been training teachers as a Director of Studies.
 
My ultimate goal is to become the Evil Mistress of the World. I plan to achieve it by teaching, as it’s easier to affect minds weakened by English grammar and pronunciation. After all, English is so dark and full of shadows, that knowing we’re unable to fight it, it’s best if we join it.
 
As a proper villain and a storyteller, I love cats. I share fondness for both cats and words with Howard Phillips Lovecraft, one of my favourite authors. His Cthulhu Mythos is quite popular on my blog – if you are a fellow cthultist, you will find this page particularly friendly.
 
The way I teach English is the way of fun for both teachers and students. I believe we become good users of a foreign language when we can crack a joke or tell a good story. Now, I’m terrible with jokes, but you just ask me for a story!

…because every story is a lesson worth learning.

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