First Day of Teaching

Where to begin! It was a whirwind first day. I started by waiting for someone to pick me up to take me to my school for the day which is a 10-15min drive. I have three schools total, one on Mondays and Tuesdays, one on Wednesdays and Thursdays, and one on Fridays. The school i went to today is my main school. I teach alongside a Korean speaking teacher.

To start the day off there was a meeting in the gym first thing. There was a new principal being introduced to the school. After she was introduced I was asked to introduce myself. So beforehand am trying to think of what to say in front of 100+ native Korean speakers who hardly understand English! So I just went for the basics, "Hello, my name is Lindsey. I am from America and look forward to teaching you English. Thank you." I saw a bunch of blank expressions but also excitement at the words they knew such as, my name is and America.

After this I was sat at a table and told they would come back for me at 10:50. This was going to be like an hour and a half and I think the new vice principal saw me there staring into space for awhile kind of lost and asked my co-teacher to take me up to our classroom. There I was actually able to attempt looking over some of the material for about 10minutes before the first students came in to class.

Then I was asked to prepare a game never having seen the material. I taught 3 classes today; 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th. At the end of the day I was exhausted! All of this talking, game play, activities wears you out but the students love it! After school they have a program for English, like an extracurricular activity. This class was very fun. Instead of25-30 kids, I had 3 so we were able to get more personal and sing songs. We did the Hokey Pokey and Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes and the kids loved it.

I have a little more information for tomorrow so we will see how it goes! I think I will really like it allot once I am actually able to plan and not thrown in the middle of the highway blindfolded!