Teaching in Korea
I have successfully completed teaching 2 days here in Korea and I’m beginning to think that I can make it. Our first day of school was on Friday and it was my first day teaching. I came in early to look over the material that I would be teaching and I was a little overwhelmed. The class time is 45 minutes long and this one class that I had, the lesson for the class was one page with maybe 7 lines of conversation. One of the challenges that I heard teachers have is trying to make the lesson last the entire time. It seems that for the last 10 minutes each class you just spend the time playing games with them like eye-spy, or something else like that to pass the time.
Each class that I have the dynamics seem to be a little different, but the kids are a lot of fun. With the younger classes it’s a lot of fun because they are loud and they are full of energy. It’s a little hard to focus their attention on the classwork at times, but they are fun to talk to, even if they’re understanding of English is rudimentary at very best.
The older kids are a lot more quiet and reserved and sometimes it feels like I’m speaking to a class of mutes, but when they do talk it is, well I don’t know, they haven’t really talked much in class yet, getting them to talk is like pulling teeth, but they are a bunch of nice, shy, quiet kids.
I think I’m being accepted though. Today, when I was teaching this one class, a girl from my next class came in and gave me an ice-cream. I think I’ve got myself an admirer ;)
posted by Dave @ 3:17 AM
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3 Comments:
I'm glad that your teaching went well. The first day is the hardest--if you can get through that, and then through the first week, then you can make it! That's what they told us at Teachers College, anyway.
Do you have to prepare your own lessons, or is it set up for you?
Have a good time!
MOM
Okay...here is a comment on both odd foods and teaching. First of all...some of that stuff just sounds rancid. I think the best way to eat octupus would be to do it unknowingly as you did.
Congrats on gaining yourself an admirer. Make use of that in anyway possible. Any student like that is God's blessing to your class b/c they keep the other students in line. Also, don't worry about feeling like you don't have enough material to fill the class...you'll eventually come up with word games or practice games that will use your content to fill up those final minutes. Plus games like eye-spy and 7up are always fun once in a while.
Yeah, I was walking pretty much blind into that whole octopus thing.
I've got the kids for like the last 5-10 minutes playing eye-spy, charades, etc. It still feels like a long time at times
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