Teaching the teachers!
A couple of months ago the Thai English teachers at my school (Prommanusorn School, Phet’buri) asked if I would be a ‘trainer’ or lecturer for a course the Thai Government were running to ‘teach the teachers’. It was a course for Thai English teachers and looked at areas of teaching such as Morphology, Methodology, Phonology etc. All the Thai teachers in the Phet’buri province that taught English were invited to attend.
It was my first experience of ‘teaching’ teachers so I was very nervous! It actually went really well though and I was pleased that I had agreed to help.
Anyhow, it turned out that the course went so well that we were asked to run another one, this one aimed towards Prathom (Junior School) teachers. Their level of English is generally much lower as many of them did not even graduate in English, they were just expected to teach it. This course took place the week after Jane flew back to England. For this course I taught Phonology, Morphology, Culture and Games & Songs. It took place over one week and was very hard work!!!
There were 2 groups of teachers, one with 80 teachers and one with 40. In the class with 80 teachers I co-taught with another girl, an American called Jill. As we were teaching Prathom teachers we tried to organise the course using the widest variety of activities we could, in order to give them lots of new ideas for the classroom. This was great fun but exhausting.
After the course finished I was back on holiday again…….
It was my first experience of ‘teaching’ teachers so I was very nervous! It actually went really well though and I was pleased that I had agreed to help.
Anyhow, it turned out that the course went so well that we were asked to run another one, this one aimed towards Prathom (Junior School) teachers. Their level of English is generally much lower as many of them did not even graduate in English, they were just expected to teach it. This course took place the week after Jane flew back to England. For this course I taught Phonology, Morphology, Culture and Games & Songs. It took place over one week and was very hard work!!!
There were 2 groups of teachers, one with 80 teachers and one with 40. In the class with 80 teachers I co-taught with another girl, an American called Jill. As we were teaching Prathom teachers we tried to organise the course using the widest variety of activities we could, in order to give them lots of new ideas for the classroom. This was great fun but exhausting.
After the course finished I was back on holiday again…….
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