Comments on: The Hardest Week at School Yet http://toshuo.com/2007/the-hardest-week-at-school-yet/ Chinese, Linguistics, Science, Cultural Observations and whatever else I feel like writing about Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:41:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Teaching Young EFL Students Faster | Doubting to shuo: Chinese, Investing, EFL and Being a Geek in Taiwan http://toshuo.com/2007/the-hardest-week-at-school-yet/#comment-153927 Teaching Young EFL Students Faster | Doubting to shuo: Chinese, Investing, EFL and Being a Geek in Taiwan Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:20:22 +0000 http://toshuo.com/2007/the-hardest-week-at-school-yet/#comment-153927 [...] things to improve makes all the difference in the long run. Related Posts: Dr. Seuss Is My Friend The Hardest Week at School Yet 1st & 2nd Grader Spelling Drill Language Skills and ESL [...] [...] things to improve makes all the difference in the long run. Related Posts: Dr. Seuss Is My Friend The Hardest Week at School Yet 1st & 2nd Grader Spelling Drill Language Skills and ESL [...]

]]> By: v http://toshuo.com/2007/the-hardest-week-at-school-yet/#comment-88432 v Sun, 09 Sep 2007 03:08:47 +0000 http://toshuo.com/2007/the-hardest-week-at-school-yet/#comment-88432 see if you can do a demonstration class in an elementary school- or do they all have english classes already now? i got the most students ever from doing a couple days worth of free demo classes in an elementary school. lots of kids went home and told their parents they wanted to sign up for the summer. then most of them continued on. also, maybe try to figure out how to teach students of differing levels in the same class. like assign different homework- a concentration on the basics that the later coming students missed, but which you still review quickly in every class, and for the more advanced students, a slow down in grammar patterns til the newbies catch up. make up for the slow down in fundamentals by teaching less fundamental vocab- you could teach, say, more adjectives or adverbs. the newbies can learn that more deeply later. my point is that the fundamentals can be slowed down until you have a good class size, while vocab can continue to grow in the advanced students. or, if your story books are done by levels, read more books on the same grammar level, but which intro more vocab. say, read 6 level 'B' books instead of 3. hope that makes sense. see if you can do a demonstration class in an elementary school- or do they all have english classes already now? i got the most students ever from doing a couple days worth of free demo classes in an elementary school. lots of kids went home and told their parents they wanted to sign up for the summer. then most of them continued on. also, maybe try to figure out how to teach students of differing levels in the same class. like assign different homework- a concentration on the basics that the later coming students missed, but which you still review quickly in every class, and for the more advanced students, a slow down in grammar patterns til the newbies catch up. make up for the slow down in fundamentals by teaching less fundamental vocab- you could teach, say, more adjectives or adverbs. the newbies can learn that more deeply later. my point is that the fundamentals can be slowed down until you have a good class size, while vocab can continue to grow in the advanced students. or, if your story books are done by levels, read more books on the same grammar level, but which intro more vocab. say, read 6 level ‘B’ books instead of 3. hope that makes sense.

]]> By: range http://toshuo.com/2007/the-hardest-week-at-school-yet/#comment-88236 range Sat, 08 Sep 2007 05:30:28 +0000 http://toshuo.com/2007/the-hardest-week-at-school-yet/#comment-88236 Hey Mark. Tough luck with your enrollment figures. It's been pretty hectic at my end as well, a new semester has officially started and all the paperwork is starting to trickle down the chain of command. I hope it works out of you. Hey Mark.
Tough luck with your enrollment figures. It’s been pretty hectic at my end as well, a new semester has officially started and all the paperwork is starting to trickle down the chain of command.

I hope it works out of you.

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