I'm a teacher star!

SO we teach in block days, so today's schedule was the same as Monday's, only so much better! The morning class of 18-year olds actually spoke! It was jlike some sort of freaking miracle. I walked in and they said "Teacher, game." I was like "Whatever game you want!" So we played Jenga for 50 minutes. I don't know how much they learned and retained (Lesson: borrow/lend. They had to use those words in a sentence before they could pull a block.) But I will take what I can get from them.

I was not accosted by the police, I was not told F*** you by any kids of any age and my divorce is final. All in all a pretty good day :) I was very tired at the end of the day, because I did work from 9:30 to 9:45, but I got a good night's sleep last night and am feeling alright now.

So I've had some questions about the mechanics of my actual teaching. Here's what I know: I'm not a great teacher. I'm probably not even a good teacher. But in the words of one of the other foreign teachers, I don't think I'm hurting their language skills. :) I generally will read from the lesson and then try to get them to repeat and write down any words they struggle over. Then after we have gone through the lesson once, I will try to explain the struggle words to them through charades or pictures or examples. A lot of them have cell phones and will look the words up and the cell will translate the word to them. This is interesting to me and I let them do it, as long as they are getting the english and the lesson, I figure it's alright. Then I try to have some sort of game devised to get them to learn the lesson, using involving spelling or finding the right definition or using it in a sentence? And they love to run, so if the game can involve running and the lesson, score! So those are my skills. Skip years of education and instead follow these quick easy steps to teacher stardom...