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poof · Joined: 23 May 2005 Posts: 161

Sometimes, I feel like I'm not a good teacher, but then I came across this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIQKJyg05c0&search=teaching

...and now I've reconsidered my methods as phenomenal by comparison.

Not sure what the context for this lesson is - perhaps the 'teacher' was asked to do anything for the sake of looking like this school had English classes. But, just look at his/her(?) own TPR - what an imitation of basketball, for example!!!! I wonder if the kids have any idea of what they are repeating.

Is this comparable to your own teaching?

erinyes · Joined: 02 Oct 2005 Posts: 272 Location: GuangDong, GaoZhou

woops

erinyes · Joined: 02 Oct 2005 Posts: 272 Location: GuangDong, GaoZhou

lollercauster · Joined: 18 Mar 2006 Posts: 418 Location: Inside-Out NYC

That is painful to watch. And what kind of accent is the 2nd person? I can't even understand it. I know you use gestures and you can mime some things...but he seemed to be going overboard.

Calories · Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 361 Location: Chinese Food Hell

I'm curious as to why someone would agree to be shoved into a room and told to teach without warning or pay.

saint57 · Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 8:50 pm Post subject:

I could have sworn I posted on this thread last night. I didn't think what I said was that bad. Shocked

saint57 · Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 2:08 am Post subject:

This Thing/Hebitch/Ladyboy is a recent graduate of saint57's diploma mill. Seriously though, I think everyone needs to watch this video.

poof · Joined: 23 May 2005 Posts: 161

With the rush to draft in any ole foreigner into their school, I guess there could be a lot of people out there teaching like that. I hope that China's growing enthusiasm of ESL doesn't lead them to stab themselves in the throat in much the same way as South Korea seems to have gone. Just because we're native English speakers, doesn't automatically make us English teachers. There needs to be screening and standards to make an effective growth of English language training.