7-14 Teaching

7-14

I’m sitting here at work in between classes on my second break of the day. Its 7:15pm here. My day has actually been a pretty good one. Most of my kids have been good and only two kids cried. Not too bad! I guess I should attempt to explain a bit about what I’m doing for work over here.

I have a special kinder class on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. I do something called song and chant two days a week. I play a story on the over head projector, then a really bad rap song, and then we play a game and finish with coloring. These kids are about 6 years old and are a ton of fun. I also teach a science class on Fridays. This is my favorite special class, even though the experiments don’t usually work.

Every day I have two classes back to back that are the exact same. These are my everyday classes (surprising, I know!). These are New Hi Kids classes and are pretty easy to teach, even if the kids sometime aren’t!

On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays I have 5 other classes with two fifty minute breaks. Most of these go smoothly but my oldest class drives me insane. It is my last class and I can’t do much to control them. They are slowing improving, very slowly.

On Tuesdays and Thursdays I have two classes after my everyday classes and then a 4 hour break at the end of the day. It is my first week having that long of a break. We finally got all of our teachers in and I had a class taken away, yay! Though, now I don’t know what to do with myself for 4 hours…

That’s my schedule and it’s pretty easy to navigate. We do have a rewards program that we give out stickers. Once every few months the kids can turn in the stickers and get “SLP money” to but things at “Market Day”. The stickers work well for most kids and keeps them under control.

Some kids like to come in the teacher’s room when I first get to work. I must say this is my favorite part of the day. I have a few girls that come by and sit in my lap and just chill for a few minuets. This makes me feel so warm on the inside. It also makes me miss my family 

Some of the kids are too funny and like to point out all sorts of flaws. I have been told many times that I’m “big”, “strong” and “fat”. Some students like to suck up and call me pretty and smart. They usually get a good response from that. The kids here love to talk about death. I have had many classes revolve only around death and going to jail. I don’t care as long as they use what we learned that day. “What will you be doing in 5 years?” “I will be shooting Tim in 5 years.” “Very good!”

For every class that I teach, a Korean teacher also teaches the same class. This is kinda nice because it makes it so I have someone to discuss my students with. I have had a few classes tell me that they don’t like the Korean teacher, but love me. What can I say? It makes me happy.

That’s about all I got for now. I have class in ten minuets and still need to post this. I hope all is well where ever you’re reading this from!