Today was the last practice teaching day.  We taught 4 classes by ourselves and observed 2 of our classmates teaching.   I had 9-12 year olds.  It wasn’t the mayhem of the first day we taught, but classroom management is still difficult for me.  They liked repeating the words as I taught them.  They knew a lot of the words I brought to teach.  They can’t put words into a sentence to save their lives though.  They lost interest at that point.  About half of every class was attentive, but I could never quite get the whole class engaged.  Some of the classes weren’t too bad and some were so out of control. The two classes I observed seemed to have the same issues I did – paper airplanes, cell phones, paper guns, glue, stealing things, hitting each other, talking instead of listening, leaving the classroom, drawing other things, talking to their friends…..

Tomorrow is our test and then at 6:00am on Saturday, I leave for my new home in North Thailand.  I start teaching on Monday.  It’s all too fast.  I don’t even feel ready for the test much less the move and teaching high schoolers who probably  have a low proficiency of English.  It should make for some interesting blogs though.

I don’t have pictures from today, but I have a couple that are interesting:

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