Beckteria

Ugg...

What can I say? I`m nervous about Monday. It`s the first day of class and I have to give a 5 minute speech in front of the entire school (about 850 people)in JAPANESE! Okay, I`m trying to not think about it too much. Also, I am working on lesson plans. Really, I only have one done. I`m getting a headache working on lesson #2 and the anxiety from the speech. Actually, pretty much everyday at work I`ve had a stress headache. I`ve pretty much just been thrown to the wolves.

I am an "Assistant Language Teacher," ALT for short. So, I am working with 7 Japanese teachers that teach English. There are 3 grades, basically the last three years of high school. The problem is that I don`t know how much Engish any of them know, what they`re already learned, and I really haven`t gotten much help from the other teachers. The trick is to teach them something new everytime and try to thread together a goal of making the lessons fit together into something comprehensible. If I had gone to school to learn how to teach, this might not be so bad, but I have no clue. In every class I have ever taken, we had a text book. Ha! That is not the case here! Good luck to me.

So, I`m on my lunch break trying to brainstorm what the hell else these kids can do in class to speak as much English as possible in lesson #2. BTW, the topic is hair. Hair styles, hair cuts. I`m going to teach them what a mullet is! American culture at its finest. WT style! Yeah baby!

posted by Bex @ 2:23 AM