So today I taught my first class alone. While I have pretty much taught classes alone before (Okuganaya especially), this was the first time I was actually alone in the class. Even though I only had two students, they were special needs students and they were ichi and ni nen sei, so communication was an issue. I was able to get through the entire lesson plan, even though at one point I had to just guess what the worksheet meant, because the instructions were all in Japanese.
I’m really glad I have made an effort to learn Japanese, because I think I used just about everything I have learned today. Not being able to say “Look at this”, or “Please write here”, would have made things much more difficult.
January 21, 2008 at 12:33 pm |
congratulations!
sounds like you did a good job
January 21, 2008 at 11:16 pm |
What the hell is ichi and ni nen sei… I have a tough enough time with the English language and then you expect me to know Japanese as well????
January 22, 2008 at 7:12 am |
ichi nen sei = 1st year (grade 7, loud and difficult to control)
ni nen sei = 2nd year (grade 8, pretty much perfect, but still not great at English)
san nen sei = 3rd year (grade 9, best at English, but super shy)