Imagine that you are a teacher in your school and you are trained to teach Math or Chinese. An English teacher is needed, so you are moved to teach English with little or no English training. Your own ability to understand and speak English is very limited. THEN, you are assigned to attend an English camp lead by native English speakers. The training is in English, the materials are written in English and you will have to develop 2 lessons and present them to a classroom of 36 Chinese primary students in front of an American trainer and your peers. No pressure!
That scenario was true for some of my 20 teachers in my group. Two of them, trained to be Chinese teachers (they teach Mandarin in the school), were asked to teach the English classes instead. They just finished their first year of teaching English. Another teacher said that she has been studying English for only 3 years. Our focus is teaching ways to teach spoken English. They have an excellent curriculum to follow for teaching grammar, but they are lacking in the practical side of developing the speaking that is so important to learning a language.
Jumbo and other administrators see the importance of this and that is why we are into the 3rd year of our contract with this school district. So, these primary teachers showed enormous courage every day. These teachers worked so hard and learned so much. Their personal English speaking improved dramatically as well as their confidence! Audrey and I are so proud of our primary teachers and have grown to love each one! We will miss them!
Thank you for thinking about us!
Nancy
That scenario was true for some of my 20 teachers in my group. Two of them, trained to be Chinese teachers (they teach Mandarin in the school), were asked to teach the English classes instead. They just finished their first year of teaching English. Another teacher said that she has been studying English for only 3 years. Our focus is teaching ways to teach spoken English. They have an excellent curriculum to follow for teaching grammar, but they are lacking in the practical side of developing the speaking that is so important to learning a language.
Jumbo and other administrators see the importance of this and that is why we are into the 3rd year of our contract with this school district. So, these primary teachers showed enormous courage every day. These teachers worked so hard and learned so much. Their personal English speaking improved dramatically as well as their confidence! Audrey and I are so proud of our primary teachers and have grown to love each one! We will miss them!
Thank you for thinking about us!
Nancy
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