I survived my first day teaching! I will say this, the kids are adorable and they all have English names. I think I'll be ok learning what to teach the kids and what to assign them, it's all pretty structured and they know what they are supposed to do each day as far as homework and everything. All students get homework, even the kindergarten kids and they were practically begging for it. I work with 7-13 year olds, 7 is kindergarten 8 is grade 1 and so on and so forth. However, there are 3 classes of each with 3-12 students. They are placed in a class based on skill level. So throughout the day, I can have the very low level kinder class to the highest level grade 4s. The only class I don't teach is math, but I'm doing social studies, reading and science. The kids, as mention before, are freaking adorable! One little boy had a shirt on today that said "100% All American Girl," I about died. This morning, before class, the little kinders introduced themselves to me and they all can say my last name (as did and can the other classes). I think however, that they prefer to call me "teacher" or "Ms. Molly." They were all curious about me and I them, but I think (and not to jump to conclusions or say it won't be difficult at times) this will be a great year. My most advanced kinder class all wanted my autograph. I felt like a celeb...haha and they put on a huge greeting for me and they compared me to a dinosaur (which we are reading about) because I am so tall...they are my favorite class so far.
The teachers I work with seem splendid. One is married, has a kid and I think leaving the school soon. The other two are engaged to each other, more my age and seem to be pretty awesome. I'm really excited to learn more about them (all Canadian) and spend some time with them. They will be my greatest resources since it'll take some time to get the hang of things, hopefully by the end of the week I'll have a better grasp on the routine and establish one of my own. I do get my first week off in 3 weeks. That'll be nice, but it would be better if I had some money to travel a bit, but it will give me a chance to explore Seoul.
2 comments:
huzzah! i am so glad your first day went so well. that is such a blessing. it sounds like the children and you are going to have great time. i am enjoying your blog posts! :)
Molly!!! This all sounds so wonderful!!!! I'm glad that you have a few things to remind you of home, like a gym and a Starbucks. Whenever I was missing america in Spain I always went to a starbucks cuz they all look and smell the same no matter what country they're in!! Amazing. You amaze me!! I want to come join you now!!!! Although, I don't think that I could teach math!!!! hahaha
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