I've been learning Spanish for a while now and it's been a great time, save for a time when my profesora was replaced by a native. The new profesora was a really nice lady, I guess, and a teacher with an impressive potential for development; the thing was, however, we had no proper coursebook and relied on her materials... and I had no idea what was going on in the class, what new skills I developed, what things I was supposed to learn. I tried talking to her DoS, but soon I got frustrated and eventually I quit.

Being a DoS means also recruiting new teachers, and then training them to meet up the standards of our school - and this inspires me to share 5 things someone should've told me when I started teaching years ago. Someone should have - but I had no DoS, and even though teaching runs in my blood, there are some things I had to discover by myself:

Today I'm going to show you something you might not have thought of using, and which proves that a teacher role for today is almost a secret agent!