After my first teaching impression in Thailand, a lot has changed and developed. I had more classes, talked to more students, had more work to do and prepared more lectures. But – again – first things first:

Teaching gets better. And preparing also. But – on the other hand – it event get’s more difficult. Right now I have done all the ‘easy`stuff with my classes. So now it’s time to get down to business. Besides more input and more explanation, this also means I have to think about evaluation systems.  Which sounds fun at first (yeah, giving marks) can be quite of a headache when thinking about fair and good evaluation processes. Written or verbal? Single oder group? How long? How hard? With A-stopper? hmm…

teacher at work =)

School get’s cooler

The nice thing right now is, i start to know how to handle the students. I had a lot of fun with my last class today and we made a lot of progress. So fun and learning CAN belong together. Furthermore I already had 4 new-entries into my classes. I don’t know if they come into my class because of me, but I think that would be the only logical explanation

Besides having my own classes, I am also part of the ‘get the students fit for the english competion’ team.  Meaning: I wrote the speach that will be held by our represantative at the english speaking contest and I try to explain pronounciation & intonation to our contestant. Not always easy, since thai-english sounds quite strange sometimes. But also a lot of fun and Maryam get’s better with every practice. And – kudos – when students over practice, the practice hard. The english speach contestant and the contestants of the song contest where working all day long. Respect. So once you get them started, they CAN forget their thai-laziness. Once in a while.

Fun fact by the way: While students often have trouble with new words or letters like s, l & r – they hit the exact tone, I read something to them Since inotation is very important in thai language, they pay very much attention to it and sometimes forget about the important things of western language. But there is still plenty of time. They will learn…

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