I like to challenge my students. I like to make them think outside the box. When I teach alone this definitely fails on me. However, when I am able to teach with my co-teacher the meaning isn’t lost in context and I can talk about interesting subjects. I think the students can get to know more about me through these types of lessons.
It is Christmas cookie season!!!! I love making Christmas cookies! I think they are a wonderful thing to eat and they go straight to your hips. But they are worth it! I will be the first to admit this was a huge undertaking here in South Korea. At first, I thought I would bake the cookies alone and then I decided to make them with a friend. Now transportation took two trips because moving everything…
To be honest, I wasn’t expecting much from students when I decide to leave. I received two lovely posters from my Grade 4 class. ( I will upload photos of it later once I remember where I tucked it away.) But nothing left an impression on me thus far like the letters I received from my Grade 6 Class 2 students. They all wrote me letters, most of them in Korean. I am so thankful…
Our school does a lot of community service. Now most of the time I’m not aware of the community service as it happens on days or hours I am at another school. Which is a shame because I like participating with my students.
My school wanted to have a garden bbq party. My principal bought wine for the occasion and we were going to grill fish and eat cows hearts (쇠염통).
The perks of being a teacher is trying to find interesting lessons for your uninterested students. One morning my co-teacher says to me, can you think of something to do for our first class? I had a mini panic attack and went flicking away through facebook snatching photos of family members and making a mini power point where I explained relationships and how my family looks like.
Goodbye 2013~ Hello 2014! I make new years resolutions every year. I never follow through with most of it. Then again, I think that stems from a place of motivation and a good mental state. 2013 was a year of change and time for reflection as well. I did a lot of stuff, even though it doesn’t seem like much now.
I’m not known as the teacher that plays games. Although many ESL teachers play lots of games and incorporate them into the curriculum, I’m not one of them. I don’t like powerpoint games because I don’t like how everyone has to stare at the screen to be involved, which there are bound to be students who will not do anything but sit and talk to other students. Besides the fact, I have no idea how…
Lately, I haven’t been as good about updating as I would like to be. I have many things to write about, and I plan to make a few posts about that in the near future. I have been busy with the application process for next year, more on that later, lesson planning to submit to the POE by Friday, went to a wedding, and making a larger non-textbook related lesson to span a few classes.…
( We all hope our recommendation letters make us out to be fabulous.) As most people teaching with EPIK know there are two main intakes one in February and one in August. As I am part of the February intake, my school should approach me soon to ask me if I am staying and resigning with them or not. About three weeks ago I asked my main co-teacher for a letter of recommendation as I…