Anonymous asked: How are you helping the students learn English, besides just playing games? Are the classes very different from back in the US?
At this point, I mostly do what is asked of me, so I don’t teach the classes outright and instead assist the current teacher. It’s almost like I’m a tool for the teacher that they can choose to use in different ways.
There are a couple of teachers that are interested in working with me to come up with stuff. Many of them have told me that if I would like to change anything they would be willing to listen. For now I’m learning as much as I can about how they teach and I think I’ll try to contribute more after I get a better feel for the classes.
I would say the biggest thing difference that I’ve noticed compared to schools in America is how unorganized the classes here. I don’t think most teacher plan out ahead very far and it seems like the daily lessons can be changed on a whim. The last school I teach at I only go to one day a week so the 5th and 6th grades have two English classes back-to-back. On the first day of the 6th grade class there we played games for the first hour and then we were supposed to do one of lessons during the second hour, but do the persistence of the students we played games for two hours.
