Teaching big kids surprisingly little
… is something I won’t be doing in Korea. I was a bit worried about my lack of experience teaching teenagers going into the telephone interview, but I think when they told me “We don’t teach 12 to 17 year olds” and I screamed “Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeesss! Yeees! Yeees!” was when I clinched the job. Adult classes are what I am trained to do and I get few complaints, but teaching little kids surprising amounts seem to be what comes naturally. Which hopefully makes up for my complete lack of training in that area…
Anyway, here is a link to everything I have learnt in the school of hard knocks* of the 2 to 12 year olds’ classes:
Young and iddybiddy learner articles on TEFLtastic and all over the net
Hope to have similar pages for my Business English and ESP stuff etc ready soon, but in the meantime here is the updated link to everything I’ve published since I lost 12 floppy disks of my first 6 years of worksheets:
Complete publications and links
* Quite often literally, like the lesson observed by parents where two kids ran into each other and then both got nosebleeds.