During the second week, we had the opportunity to continue helping out in a CM II classroom at Eugene Potier. To get the students ready for their big English test in a couple months the teacher wanted us to interview them to get them ready. Laurel and I decided to play Two Truths and A Lie with them. We didn’t get through many of them but it was nice getting to know the several kids and talking to them. For the most part, we haven’t had the opportunity to interact with them one on one and make connections and relationships with them. The kids really got into the game and were definitely excited to learn how to play the game. They seemed to like the change of pace it brought to their school day.
I think it might be difficult finding time in their busy day to teach larger lessons because they have this tight schedule of getting ready for their English exam. We’ll definitely have the opportunity to lead smaller lessons, but I’m just excited to get the chance to lead some games for them to play. It’s really interesting the dynamic that we have — it isn’t our classroom, but we are coming in to teach them just for a small portion of the day and then leaving. You don’t get that too often in the US unless you’re a specialty teacher, so the fact that we can plan these fun little activities for them is really nice. I think a major thing that we can help with is allowing them to practice speaking English with a native speaker. Many of them haven’t had a great number of experiences talking one on one with someone in English, so just having us be there in their classroom will hopefully booster their conversational English.
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