And I'm off!
Technically, school started Sept 12. But well, national teacher meetings weren't scheduled till after then, nor the teaching rotation finalized (that's Ethiopian foresight for you) so regular classes didn't actually exist until this past week.
I held a training on what is CPD and how to do it, which is a national level program all teachers much participate in every year that's focused on self-improvement. I went to two school to invite people and hoped for maybe 15 total from both schools combined.
I got four.
Well, at least they each got individual attention! The best part was all the Oxford ESL textbook I had laying around for teachers to fill through while waiting for people to arrive. My teachers just fawned over them and begged me to lend them out. They really are much best than the English for Ethiopia books that are used here and hopefully my teachers can use them to 1) understand the purpose of supplemental texts and 2) use them to some extent. We shall see.
I'm just excited to begin working. I've paired up with a 2nd grade English teacher and will now be giving weekly 5 min phonic lessons to his two classes.
This is the letter B. You draw it like this. It sounds like this.
Basic stuff, that really teachers ignore. There's a reason the literacy rate in the local language isn't 40%. Hopefully, for this class at least, we can boost that because skills like blending (which we'll get to about half way through the year) is a skill you use to read all languages.
Wish me luck for my first class on Thursday! I hope the little kids at least understand me.
Technically, school started Sept 12. But well, national teacher meetings weren't scheduled till after then, nor the teaching rotation finalized (that's Ethiopian foresight for you) so regular classes didn't actually exist until this past week.
I held a training on what is CPD and how to do it, which is a national level program all teachers much participate in every year that's focused on self-improvement. I went to two school to invite people and hoped for maybe 15 total from both schools combined.
I got four.
Well, at least they each got individual attention! The best part was all the Oxford ESL textbook I had laying around for teachers to fill through while waiting for people to arrive. My teachers just fawned over them and begged me to lend them out. They really are much best than the English for Ethiopia books that are used here and hopefully my teachers can use them to 1) understand the purpose of supplemental texts and 2) use them to some extent. We shall see.
I'm just excited to begin working. I've paired up with a 2nd grade English teacher and will now be giving weekly 5 min phonic lessons to his two classes.
This is the letter B. You draw it like this. It sounds like this.
Basic stuff, that really teachers ignore. There's a reason the literacy rate in the local language isn't 40%. Hopefully, for this class at least, we can boost that because skills like blending (which we'll get to about half way through the year) is a skill you use to read all languages.
Wish me luck for my first class on Thursday! I hope the little kids at least understand me.
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