I love school here. I rock so hard at being a teacher/assistant. Eff. Yes.
So, my first two days of school have gone well. First, I met my mentor, Matthias Preller. He's an awesome, engaging teacher who rocks both English and Geography classes. To back up a little, at my school it's the teachers who move around between classes and the students who stay together in the same place. So, for example, one group of 11th graders - Klasse 11a or 11b, for example - will stay together in a room and every Tuesday at, say, noon Herr Preller will come and teach an hour of English to them. It's a little more pressure on the teachers, I think, to have to run all around, but it works.
So, I went with Herr Preller on Monday and observed two 11th grade English classes. I had a great time just observing and making occasional comments on How We Say It In America. The students here are all really chic and, I think, most of them come from money. To be honest, that can be really intimidating, coming into a room of possibly super entitled kids. But they were interested in what I had to say and willing, at least for the day, to listen to me.
The next day I went along with Frau Rech to her 13th grade English class (yes, they have a 13th grade). There, we talked about cloning and air pollution and carbon credits and all sorts of cool, controversial topics. I even got to lead my own discussion group! Woo! We talked about stem cell research, how cool is that? By the end of class, I had gotten all of them to talk pretty willingly, no small feat for a language teacher. I was super, super proud of myself. Then, after class, I got a key to the teachers' lounge and my own English books and made friends with a bunch of different teachers and made funny German jokes and I am so freakin psyched that I'm making a run-on sentence oh no! Whew. Anywho, I had a great time and I did a great job. I'm totally going to survive here.
So, my first two days of school have gone well. First, I met my mentor, Matthias Preller. He's an awesome, engaging teacher who rocks both English and Geography classes. To back up a little, at my school it's the teachers who move around between classes and the students who stay together in the same place. So, for example, one group of 11th graders - Klasse 11a or 11b, for example - will stay together in a room and every Tuesday at, say, noon Herr Preller will come and teach an hour of English to them. It's a little more pressure on the teachers, I think, to have to run all around, but it works.
So, I went with Herr Preller on Monday and observed two 11th grade English classes. I had a great time just observing and making occasional comments on How We Say It In America. The students here are all really chic and, I think, most of them come from money. To be honest, that can be really intimidating, coming into a room of possibly super entitled kids. But they were interested in what I had to say and willing, at least for the day, to listen to me.
The next day I went along with Frau Rech to her 13th grade English class (yes, they have a 13th grade). There, we talked about cloning and air pollution and carbon credits and all sorts of cool, controversial topics. I even got to lead my own discussion group! Woo! We talked about stem cell research, how cool is that? By the end of class, I had gotten all of them to talk pretty willingly, no small feat for a language teacher. I was super, super proud of myself. Then, after class, I got a key to the teachers' lounge and my own English books and made friends with a bunch of different teachers and made funny German jokes and I am so freakin psyched that I'm making a run-on sentence oh no! Whew. Anywho, I had a great time and I did a great job. I'm totally going to survive here.
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