Think of how often your class grinds to a halt because a few students are just not getting what you're laying down. In a typical 60 minute lesson, you have only a few minutes to elicit the target language, and if only a few students are still confused, you have to make a decision—move along with your lesson or pause and try to re-explain (if you can). When that happens, it's hard to…

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I used to make resolutions about my English teaching processes not yearly, but WEEKLY. Okay sometimes even HOURLY. 

Every time Sunday night rolled around with the crushing need to lesson plan, I vowed to plan my lessons further ahead next week. Every time I spent the 20 minutes before class frantically trying to hunt down an exercise I had already used many times before (with no luck) I vowed to keep better track of my work. Every time I gave up planning altogether and decided to 'wing it' during class, I felt guilty knowing my students deserved better than that, and vowed to do better next time.