Saturday, November 17, 2012

First Class Taught

Well I can now say that I have taught a class in China.  Although I have yet to officially start work, I had a chance to practice today with some junior high students at a local high school.  This is not quite work yet, but for all intents and purposes I had a good first experience.

I taught a rather lengthy and detailed description of american culture by discussing the particulars of Thanksgiving and what it means in American culture.

I almost had a tough time because my Mac Air does not have the correct prongs to support the type of plug used by the overhead projector used commonly in classrooms here. Instead, because it was a small class of only 15, I had the students gather around while I showed them my meticulously drafted power point presentation about Thanksgiving.

Several students were very interested, some were definitely not so enthralled.  At different points I had varying levels of attention.  I need to remind myself to slow down and make sure I do not let distracted students get me distracted.

After about 40 minutes of me talking, we played word games using english for about an hour.

All in all a good test run for when I officially started teaching in the coming weeks.  Plus I can recycle the lecture.

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