perhaps we should question public education
I'm going to be a teacher as of next week? Kind of.
I've gone to public schools all my life until college, and I'm convinced that I have had a better education than a lot of the people enrolled in pretentious prep schools, but... I've realized how every city is different.
Part of my education class is observing an ESL class at a Boston school every week. I was assigned to a 2nd grade native Japanese class, and the teacher is having a really hard time because the students have such different ability levels. From next week, I'm taking over the beginners and going over the basics with them while she goes forward with the kids who have been learning English all year.
She was telling me to come up with a lesson plan and how I should cover the four skills and phonics and basic numbers and it was crazy and I'm worried but it's once a week for 30 minutes so I guess it's not a big deal.
Still. Public schools. Apparently at some places credentials are not really necessary.
The kids are crazy cute, though. They were translating for each other when someone was put on the spot and they didn't know how to answer, and they commented about the worksheets to each other, and it's amazing how advanced their language abilities are even at the ages of 7 or 8!
My favorite part:
A little boy was filling out a worksheet that had a very rudimentary telephone conversation and prompted him to copy the text next to the speech bubble. It was a dialogue something like Hello, this is Tom! Hello Tom, this is Sally! Goodbye. He read it and started to work on it and was mumbling to himself, That's all they said, and they're already saying goodbye? That's so weird.
Awww ♥
I've gone to public schools all my life until college, and I'm convinced that I have had a better education than a lot of the people enrolled in pretentious prep schools, but... I've realized how every city is different.
Part of my education class is observing an ESL class at a Boston school every week. I was assigned to a 2nd grade native Japanese class, and the teacher is having a really hard time because the students have such different ability levels. From next week, I'm taking over the beginners and going over the basics with them while she goes forward with the kids who have been learning English all year.
She was telling me to come up with a lesson plan and how I should cover the four skills and phonics and basic numbers and it was crazy and I'm worried but it's once a week for 30 minutes so I guess it's not a big deal.
Still. Public schools. Apparently at some places credentials are not really necessary.
The kids are crazy cute, though. They were translating for each other when someone was put on the spot and they didn't know how to answer, and they commented about the worksheets to each other, and it's amazing how advanced their language abilities are even at the ages of 7 or 8!
My favorite part:
A little boy was filling out a worksheet that had a very rudimentary telephone conversation and prompted him to copy the text next to the speech bubble. It was a dialogue something like Hello, this is Tom! Hello Tom, this is Sally! Goodbye. He read it and started to work on it and was mumbling to himself, That's all they said, and they're already saying goodbye? That's so weird.
Awww ♥