Teaching & Learning: Reflections

I am not going to discover some magic trick to teaching ESL. For a while I was thinking in those terms. It was a goal to find a more effective way to teach language. I'm not sure if there is, at least, if there is in the way I was thinking about it before. The activities I'm coming up with are less magic tricks to teach more effectively than they are ways for me, personally, to teach more effectively. I think that I am trying to adapt my strengths and weaknesses to the task, by modifying the task a bit, by matching it with my virtues as a teacher and individual. The idea of learning being fun is important to me, but I am not sure that it contributes any more to the efficiency of learning than any other way. To determine this, I would need a control and a variable population. I'd need to do a pre and post test. I would, in short, have to conduct research. Hmm. I don't know if I am able to do that, nor if I really want to. I'll give it some more thought and see what comes.