Wednesday, June 11, 2003

Frustrated.
She was asked to do a demo teaching today. she didn't really feel like following the provided 'standard' materials, and she knew she could do better than what the manual asked her to do, so she decided to use her way--which is similar to the 'standard one'--to teach those objects and prepared some stuffs like a teddy bear and stickers for those wellbehaved littles. she even thought of a funny game and she knew everything'd go well. it seemed she's too confident. the school owner wasn't very happy about her way of teaching and asked her to follow what the manual said. the owner wanted her to do what she(the owner)'s doing, to teach in the way she'd been trained, and even aksed her to play those games she's using in her class and sing the songs which the records played. she's not happy either. she didn't want her kids to be trained as robots. she didn't want them to learn only 'sesame street songs', to know only 'sesame street poems', or to speak only what 'sesame street' taught. the owner even hadn't got chance to see her game and the materials she prepared. she didn't know she could teach better than her. in fact the owner didn't get good feedback from kids cuz as i saw most of kids didn't know what they'd learned in the class. their grammers are in a mess, their spelling are corrupt, and their volcabularies are poor. they had fun playing in the class but it didn't help their learnings. she has no idea what to do the next. she's thinking of rejecting the classes in summer. anyhow she proved she's not a good english teacher...

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