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inmaaa86
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Dear colleague
I can understand how frustrated you may feel. Because we, teachers work very hard and don �t receive much support or recognition from students, parents or even other people in the town. In my school we have some discipline problems that make me feel so bad. In many occasions students (12 years old) don �t let me give the lesson because I have to stop the noise the make or they lack on motivation. how can I motivate them when they are so rude?
I hope things go better for you!
Best wishes,
Inma.
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17 Feb 2010
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anitarobi
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It �s so great to hear when things work out! It gives us all extra motivation to go on! Thanks for sharing... |
17 Feb 2010
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Carla Horne
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I am very happy for you! May only good events and wishes come your way!!
hornec |
17 Feb 2010
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flaviatl
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I �m glad you feel better now!
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17 Feb 2010
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mena22
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I �m so very happy for you and your students! Thanks for sharing the good news with us.
Wish you all the best!
mena |
17 Feb 2010
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a isabel
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Glad to hear the good news!
Hugs
aIsabel
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17 Feb 2010
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David Lisgo
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"I received an email this weekend from my boss telling me that I need to
improve on my 2yr -5yr classes."
This doesn �t really surprise me. In Japan people imagine that the earlier
you begin studying English the better and expectations are high for this age
group, but we are in an EFL situation so progress is extremely slow and
there �s no reinforcements through reading and writing activities, because
they �re too young for this, so if they are absent for a short time they forget
everything. My two eldest children used to communicate in Afrikaans with each other, but within six months of arriving in Japan and Afrikaans was totally forgotten and Japanese became their first language.
It �s also a special age group and many people, including
myself, are not comfortable with this age group. Probably your boss also
has no idea how to teach English to these children.
"I was told that my 2yr-5yr classes are lacking creativity and strength."
True or not true, it doesn �t really make much difference if communication
with your boss is through e-mail, though you could e-mail him/her back and
ask him/her to be more specific in his/her criticism. Your classes are
quite long for this age group. Are you on your own? Sometimes a parent and
child lesson will go better. As other people have said, a simple schedule
is important, a schedule which is repeated week after week so that the
children can find some kind of rhythm. A noisy period followed by a quiet
period, activity by inactivity. Lots of songs, you don �t have to have a
good voice, but you need a repertoire of songs so that you can call upon a
song according to whatever situation you find yourself in.
Are you a member of ETJ (English Teachers in Japan)
http://www.eltnews.com/ETJ/index.shtml#? If not, you should consider
joining. You should join the main e-mail group which has more than 5000
members and the activities group which has about 2700 members. You can ask
for advice there and many people will have a better understanding of your
situation. If you have a Yahoo! account, then you will be able to search
the email archives of these groups and find lots of ideas there.
I have developed some materials for pre-reading children, which I will gladly share with you. You can read about them here: http://www.how-to-teach-english-in-japan.com/what-is-red.html#. If after reading you are interested in the materials, then please send a PM with your email address.
Regards,
David Lisgo
in Kagoshima prefecture
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17 Feb 2010
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anaisabel001
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i �m glad for you and your students.
All the best .
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17 Feb 2010
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Vernica
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In Spain there are a sort of private schools (Academias [Spanish teachers are already laughing]) where children who fail, or need a reinforcement in English come one or two hours in the afternoon. This year in october I changed my job and I went to another.
On the first day, the very first day, one student ran away and never came back. The superior who was very surprised called the mother and the answer was " this English teacher teaches in English!!!!!!!!! unbelievable"
Yes, yes now you are laughing but at that moment I was startled. Next week a student �s mum came complaining about my methods, she thought my teaching was very advanced for her baby, the student is taking 2Bachiller, that is the previous step to apply to university. And we can go on and on...........
In two weeks, with the new teacher (me) had disappeared three students, of course the superior was mad at me, but later and before my three month contract expired, There were 9 positive scores out of 12, so I �m still working. I hope someday can teach English without the heavy burden that a pass examen is the only thing I have to show my experience and knowledge, that �s very sad.
That �s why I always say to my students that I �m not going to do your exam, I can give you a 40% but you have to fill the rest 60%.
For the record to students came back. Later I knew that some mothers whose babies had passed had coffee together with the other two every afternoon............... try to imagine (jajaja)
Hugs to all of you!!! 
Cheer up we are rising the next generation!
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17 Feb 2010
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