After observing my co-teachers and how they teach for a bit, I finally agreed to make my way to the front of the classroom and work alongside them this week. But I didn’t get started teaching just yet. First, we needed to set some agreements for the classroom.
School started about three weeks ago here in Thailand and I have spent my time at the school observing. (I wasn’t at school for the second week of school because of the student and teacher camps that I had.) Here is a collection of my initial reactions and observations.
True to Thai form, I was told that I was going to be hosting a teacher camp for matayom teachers just over a week before the scheduled dates at end of day on a Friday, with no further information other than maybe 50 teachers and four days long.
As I said in my last post, I was finally called upon to do some more traditional work and do some trainings in conversational English. Only this time, I was given three days to find help and plan for 2 two-day trainings for 200 principals in total. Half of the principals would attend the first two days and the other half would attend the second two days. Seeing as it was Friday when I was informed and the training would start on the following Wednesday (and the trainers be at the hotel on Tuesday) I didn’t have an ideal amount of time.