Tuesday, March 10, 2009

The Daily Adventure



Our daily schedules are pretty crazy at BIS. There are four full-time English teachers who are responsible for teaching 170 students seven subjects. We each have six or seven different classes per day. Each class lasts 45 minutes and has 6-12 kids. Nearly every class, even within grades, is at different English level. Preparation has been key since there are so many classes to plan and organize. I still don’t know how I’m going to keep them all straight. The picture is our class schedule. Christopher is C and I am L.

Subjects:
RDB – reading
Language
Math
Social Studies
Science
Trophies – more reading
Vocabulary
R/C – reading comprehension
Writing

A Korean teacher teaches Phonics for the kindergarten children. I substituted this class yesterday and loved it!! There is just something about teaching children alphabet sounds for the first time. They are absolutely precious and it’s amazing to see the way their face lights up when they “get it”. It’s also pretty cute listening to them trying to distinguish between the ll sound and rr sound ;)

3 comments:

Truth said...

Wow, how in the world to you keep track of your schedule when it changes every day?

Kathleen said...

Welcome to the world of teaching! Glad you are enjoying the experience.
Hang in there---Gram

Michael Macal said...

That sounds awesome. Hopefully it's something close to this photo! pic