...LET THE TEACHING BEGIN

Good evening!

We had a great day at school today.  Tom, the "geek" came in and talked to us about class engagement and the use of technology.  They promote "low tech" and "student led classes!"  Yee-ha!  Right up my alley and Gary's.  Tom was entertaining without being over the top.

The remainder of the day until about 1:30 was spent preparing us for teaching next Monday.  Liz and David were super in that regard.  David has now started to "thaw" a bit.  After 1:30 we were put in our groups (groups that we will be in for the remainder of the course).  Gary has crazy and ditsey Maeve as his group's tutor and yes----------I got David.  I'm in a group of 6 and one of the members is Carlos.  Super guy.  David was terrific in our group.  He was patient and explained what next Monday will be like.  

Our group will be teaching a group of students (adults) who have signed up to learn English at IH.  The group has 14 students and they are considered to be pre-intermediate (meaning not beginners but still on a steep learning curve).  David let us peek into the room where we will be teaching.

I will be the first up and will open up the class and will have 20 minutes to do a "warmup" and "greeting."  I've got a plan and will work out the actual "lesson plan" before then.  Once I open up the class then Carlos is up next followed by the other four.  By the end of our first group meeting David thawed to the level of a "slushy."

Gary gets to teach a class of intermediate students the concepts of "true" and "false."  He has some great activities planned.

You'll wakeup to a full report on Monday morning!

Missing you all tons!

Love and hugs,

Ellie and Gary

Some more black and whites from Gary :)

AND ONE OF THE PHOTOGRAPHER...