Tuesday, November 18, 2008

A Quick Word on Teaching

Teaching is going pretty well. I have my good days and my bad days. I'm usually good for one bad day a week. I have to really grind through that day, but most days I have fun. Hopefully the kids have fun too. It's tough because I have 22 classes a week (5 on the first four days a week and 2 on Friday). I only meet with each class once a week for 50 minutes, but it is more like 35 minutes because there are no passing periods. So students are always at least 10 minutes late. Sometimes more like 20. It's all right through because all of the teachers say it is normal. My lessons are getting shorter and shorter.

The last class of the day is always the hardest, but when that class goes well I go home happy. Today I tried a new game in my last class of the day and it completely bombed. Oh well, tomorrow is another day.

1 comment:

ganeeban said...

awwww...B! Sounds like you are really trying and nothing is as important as that! Good luck and wow 22 classes a week....Thai overload, if you ask me ;)