Teaching in Japan

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

A Nightmare in Kid Town

The other day I was about to explode.

First, my class of five 10 year old girls all started to cry in class. We were playing pictionary and one of the girls was drawing Santa on the board. One girl yelled 'Santa' and another girl began to yell at her because she thought there was not 'N' in Santa. Then they all started to cry... I have no idea why but it happened. I had no idea what to do, so I tried to involve them in a different game but there was nothing I could do. I gave up and went and got there parents.

Second, after that class left the manager complaining to me that I was not handling the class correctly. I'm probably not but I have no idea how to teach English to 5 little brats. None of them want to learn English their parents just want them to come so that they have meet new friends. It's pointless trying to teach them. Maybe I'll just play games all next week.

Third, my boss wants me to tell books to my students, I don't want to. I'm a teach not a book store. I understand that it's part of the business and that I'm the best one to assess which book each student needs, but it's over 10 hours of work filling out forms and getting paper work ready for the campaign.

Lastly, I have to hold counseling with all of my students but how am i suppose to do that if my students don't come to class. I was yelled at for not completing my counseling. Two students have not been to class in over six months, it seems that they are busy or just are not interested in having class.

The good news is that one of my new students plays soccer in a near by city and invited me to play with him. I am very excited to play some soccer and get some exercise.

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