Anyway, during this upcoming week, the middle school students will be having cram sessions every night with the Korean teachers. That means we foreign teachers will have no middle schoolers to teach. However, we shall have to take up the slack with the elementary kids, whom the Korean teachers will be too busy to handle. So, we will have an increased course load during the early afternoons. Our own elementary classes will continue as normal, with lessons and such. But the classes we're subbing for will do things a bit differently. There will be a sort of "presentation class" where the students will be given a topic at the beginning of the week, distill it into a presentation, and deliver it at the end of the week. That should be intriguing. The topic will be "time travel"—if you had a time machine, where would you go? What would you change? How would this affect the future?
Following the increased afternoon course load, our evenings are largely vacant. From 6:15 p.m. onwards (7:45 on Tuesdays and Thursdays) I'm pretty much just lounging around.
Things get really interesting the week after this. This is called the "holding period." During this time the middle school students are off actually taking those big exams. They don't come to the academy at all. The Korean teachers go back to teaching elementary classes, and everything resumes as normal, sans the middle schoolers. This means that we'll have even fewer classes and be done even earlier. Think of how much novel-editing I'll get done during that span!
And now, because every good blog post needs a picture (so it'll look all fresh and appealing when it's down there in the "You might also like" zone), please take a moment to consider this:
3 comments:
That picture at the end is honestly one of THE most awesome things I have ever seen. I was laughing out loud at the cafe on the corner of my street...
And a break sounds like fun! You can practice more cooking!
This testing actually sounds very similar to the end of the year process at my schools growing up... We would have around two weeks of cramming for the end of year exams, then a full week (sometimes more) of the actual testing, and then the remainder of year (usually about a week) was pretty much dead. Most of the time the school planned a special outing for everyone after the tests were over.
Growing up I assumed all kids had that sort of testing, but later I found out that requirements are different from state to state. We never had presentations, but the topic actually sounds kind of fun!
Hello ladies! I'm sorry I didn't reply to your marvelous comments sooner. Jane, I'm so glad I put things up here that make you laugh. That's all I was hoping for, really. To elicit a few laughs. Thanks, chum.
Carrie: I tell you what, these Asian kids (and the Europeans, it sounds like) really get put through an academic meat grinder. I don't know who thought up the topic, but it really did sustain a three-day project!
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