Last Week of Teaching
Posted by Rebecca Lynch on Monday, June 25, 2012
I've now finished teaching at the school, and was sad to leave all my students behind who i'd got to know. The final week was a mix of games (the clasics of hangman, hot seat, charades etc. along with a music game where I play a song they circle the right genre, and O&X's addapted with words so they had to make a sentence using their chosen word), playing music (the students love DJ and dance music, and off course the Chinese favorites of Justin Beiber, Lady GaGa and Micheal Jackson), question asking (teacher when you going to come back to China? teacher when are you going back to Scotland? Teacher will you remember me?), and I even had a dance performance from one of the boys. Had a couple of teachers saying i got the kids to wound up and excited in class, they did get rather noisy with the games, but to me they were just having fun and getting rather enthusiastic, plus it was their last lesson with me.
Throughout the year I have taken many packs of cards of students in the middle of class, so when I offered to teach them some British card games, they got very excited. Yes, I know card games aren't exactly part of the usual english lesson, but my reasoning is that they had to listen to the instructions I was giving, therefore using English listening skills to help translate the rules, so, card games are therfore OK for English lessons.
When i finished on Friday it was strange, it didn't feel like I was't going to come back in on Monday, I was probably never going to see the students again but it didn't feel like goodbye. In between all the games, music etc. I got class pictures and in many classes the camera got passed around group to group so I have many pictures (with the classic chinese peace signs and poses) to remember my classes with.
When i finished on Friday it was strange, it didn't feel like I was't going to come back in on Monday, I was probably never going to see the students again but it didn't feel like goodbye. In between all the games, music etc. I got class pictures and in many classes the camera got passed around group to group so I have many pictures (with the classic chinese peace signs and poses) to remember my classes with.