Sunday, 30 September 2018
Thursday, 27 September 2018
Tuesday, 25 September 2018
Sunday, 23 September 2018
Friday, 21 September 2018
Thursday, 20 September 2018
Wednesday, 19 September 2018
Cambodia - Day 62
Another exhausting day teaching Chinese children from the living room. Often rewarding and sometimes really annoying. At 9pm I had a 1-2 session with a 14 year old boy and a 10 year old girl. The content, which is mandatory, was basically teaching the song 'Miss Polly Had a Dolly who was Sick, Sick Sick' and that was more or less it. The 14 year old boy was on time for the class and made it clear that learning this song was not a priority for him. The 10 year old girl was late for class and there was a problem with her sound and she sent me a message to let me know that she was shy and needed plenty of patience. At this time, after a 14 hour day, patience was in short supply. He rated me as 10/10 and she rated the class at 1/10. Looking back at my ratings for the last month, about half the students have made a rating of me. Of the other half (43), 32 students gave me 10/10, 9 gave me 9/10 and of the other two that rated me, one gave me 2/10 and the 10 year old girl gave me 1/10!!!
Thursday, 13 September 2018
Wednesday, 12 September 2018
Friday, 7 September 2018
Thursday, 6 September 2018
Wednesday, 5 September 2018
Cambodia - Day 52
Another busy day at work. Strikes me again today that I am teaching phonics to the students so that they can get used to the sounds of English but there is no local back-up because the teachers are unable to produce the correct sounds. Again thinking about giving up on phonics and concentrating on grammar. Very wet tonight so although it is my 'Friday night' I am staying in......
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