Teaching

Jesse and I are continuing to enjoy teaching. Here's a picture of some of my students working as a team.
The school does not have any textbooks so Jesse and I have the flexibility to develop the curriculum outlined by the Ministry of Education using whatever resources we can find by ourselves. The weekly themes of the curriculum are broad enough to allow us to integrate information about health and discuss important issues during our lessons.
Our students are eager to continue learning outside of class. Jesse and I are beginning fun activities like a weekly English movie night, lunch bunch speaking English, English discussion group, and, of course, English at the beach. Interest is high.
One evening we met with our students for an informal "English hour" where we brought to the classroom a bunch of magazines that Justin and Mike (the returned volunteers) had collected. I was struck by how enthusiastically the students devoured the magazines. The loved paging through the articles and advertisements. Many were unfamiliar with the format of a magazine because access to printed resources is so limited. We are beginning to collect resources in English - education textbooks, teacher idea books, and a variety of other books at a variety of levels. We are hoping that people who come to visit us will use some of their suitcase space to bring the books here. In this way, we're hoping to gradually collect and organize a resource library for the students here, both to enrich their study of English and to offer resources for their teaching of English. Please send us emails if you have resources or ideas or connections for this project.