One of my co-workers suddenly found out this week that her grandmother is dying, so she cleared it with our boss and headed home. I think she did the right thing.
In the meantime, though, we're short one teacher, so even though I have two kindergarten classes in the morning, they're being combined for a couple periods everyday so I can teach the adult class my co-worker had handled.
Everyday our boss drives us out to the industrial zone, where our school has an interesting exchange of language classes going on. My understanding is that the company is both Indian and Korean, so we're teaching the Koreans English while our Korean co-workers are teaching the Indians Korean. I think it's actually a really neat idea.
I've had the adult class twice so far, and they seem like pleasant and fun people. I'm always very intimidated by the idea of teaching adults, though, so I'm always nervous about teaching them. I'm a very silly teacher with the kids, so the older my students get, the less interested they are, typically. I can't relate well to adults so it's very hard for me to know what keeps them interested. Fortunately, though, they have more discipline than children do, so they'll still learn from me even if I'm not so interesting.
My second class went much better than the first, so I'm hoping I'll continue to improve as a teacher as long as I have them - until a new teacher comes, which my boss thinks might be about a month. We'll see!
In the meantime, though, we're short one teacher, so even though I have two kindergarten classes in the morning, they're being combined for a couple periods everyday so I can teach the adult class my co-worker had handled.
Everyday our boss drives us out to the industrial zone, where our school has an interesting exchange of language classes going on. My understanding is that the company is both Indian and Korean, so we're teaching the Koreans English while our Korean co-workers are teaching the Indians Korean. I think it's actually a really neat idea.
I've had the adult class twice so far, and they seem like pleasant and fun people. I'm always very intimidated by the idea of teaching adults, though, so I'm always nervous about teaching them. I'm a very silly teacher with the kids, so the older my students get, the less interested they are, typically. I can't relate well to adults so it's very hard for me to know what keeps them interested. Fortunately, though, they have more discipline than children do, so they'll still learn from me even if I'm not so interesting.
My second class went much better than the first, so I'm hoping I'll continue to improve as a teacher as long as I have them - until a new teacher comes, which my boss thinks might be about a month. We'll see!
