Wednesday, 11 April 2007

Japanese Teacher

I will start teaching again from tomorrow!!!
I found a language school and submitted my resume. The owner contacted me and I had an interview. She told me that the school didn't have any students at present. Anyway, she offered to let me observe a level 1 Spanish class.

It was great! The teacher spoke Spanish all the time. Of course,the students didn't understand so she translated into English a little for the first half (45min).
However, they practiced introducing themselves, reading numbers and role played. The role playing was a really good activity. The teacher gave them a paper which had 10 telephone numbers. Each student read their numbers out and the other students had to write them down.
The students concentrated on speaking and writing. I enjoyed observing and learnt a lot from the lesson. When I was in the lesson, I could see the lesson from the student's side. I have been studying Spanish by myself for a long time so the lesson was very enjoyable to me.

After that, the owner e-mailed me to say she had 4 students. She asked me if I can teach on Thursday nights. Normally, I have a Pilates lesson, but I accepted. I will teach them once a week for 6 weeks. Yes, I am always nervous before teaching a lesson.

I will teach them Japanese by direct method and I want to make the lessons enjoyable
Also, I will try to make the students speak for 80% of the lesson. ( This is quite tough, but it is possible!)

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