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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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 Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 3:40 pm Post subject: How's this for a student-teaching assignment? |
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Another spring week, another new student-teacher. Only this one's in for a real treat. One of the classes she gets to teach four times a week for the next month contains her little sister. Perhaps you'd have to know her little sister to understand how awkward that would be. This student-teacher graduated from our school's academic programme near the top of her class, winning all sorts of awards. Her sister, a massive under-acheiver who went through a typical massive roller-coaster dip in grade 2 of middle school, is now in our vocational programme. While she could easily be the best student in her vocational class, she can go back and forth from best to most annoying student in the class ten times within the course of one lesson. This type of situation is yet another advantage of being an FT that we probably never even consider.
On anther note, I must say how impressed I am by the English level of some student-teachers who aren't even English teachers. This one can communicate quite well. Earlier we had a biology teacher who had better English than at least 50% of KETs, if not more. At least for some of the brighter uni students, general English fluency must really be on the rise. |
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lowpo
Joined: 01 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 4:01 pm Post subject: Re: How's this for a student-teaching assignment? |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
Another spring week, another new student-teacher. Only this one's in for a real treat. One of the classes she gets to teach four times a week for the next month contains her little sister. Perhaps you'd have to know her little sister to understand how awkward that would be. This student-teacher graduated from our school's academic programme near the top of her class, winning all sorts of awards. Her sister, a massive under-acheiver who went through a typical massive roller-coaster dip in grade 2 of middle school, is now in our vocational programme. While she could easily be the best student in her vocational class, she can go back and forth from best to most annoying student in the class ten times within the course of one lesson. This type of situation is yet another advantage of being an FT that we probably never even consider.
On anther note, I must say how impressed I am by the English level of some student-teachers who aren't even English teachers. This one can communicate quite well. Earlier we had a biology teacher who had better English than at least 50% of KETs, if not more. At least for some of the brighter uni students, general English fluency must really be on the rise. |
I meet several Korean's through out the year that can speak good English. The problem is getting them comfortable to speak in English in public. |
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