A Bit About School (w/ some pictures of food of course)

I am sorry I have been absent for so long! It's because I am currently in the middle of my 4 week intensive TESOL training course!

A look into my day in class and teaching!

After the first few days of the course we began practice teaching in the evenings, which established our normal schedule. Our training starts at 8:30 am every morning where we reflect on the previous evenings lessons. Our class that we are teaching goes from 4PM-6:15PM, which gives time for two 1 hour lessons (we luckily worked up to that, first teaching a 20 minute lesson and then a 45 minute lesson). Our class is all ages (11- mid 50's) and all levels, which definitely creates an extra challenge.

After reflection we usually have a few short lessons taught by our two wonderful trainers Justin (from the bookstore) and Sophia. Sometimes it is about planning different kind of lessons. Sometimes it is a sample lesson where we are the students, and then we reflect on what was helped and what hindered the learning process. 

We have lunch every day at 1230. We decided that we were all experiencing a lack of vegetables, and have started to have "salad day" twice a week.

the end of our first salad, the second one was even bigger and better!

After lunch we typically have about 2.5 hours of what we call team meeting. In this time the two people teaching in our English class will present their lesson plans for the day. We go over the parts of the lesson and offer any help/suggestions to the people teaching, and then it becomes hardcore lesson planning time for everyone!

After class I go home and have dinner with my family and have homework every night, as well as essays due every weekend (they weren't kidding about INTENSIVE!)

Josh and my sushi feast to celebrate our first hour of teaching

Unfortunately all this work leaves little time for adventuring on the weekends (and therefore a lack of blogging material!) Hopefully more posts to come soon!