teach english as a volunteer

I’m still going to continue to tutor English, but I’m marking the goal as finished because I feel like I’ve got over the initial getting-it-happening stage and everything is working out.

This has been going well, and I’m really glad that I get on with the student that has been assigned to me. I’m interested in the different tone/method/style that I’m using with her as opposed to what I used to engage my Korean students (adult or teenage). The cultural difference changes how I teach.
The problem is that she cancelled our lesson the other day because she was moving house and the suburb that she said she was moving to isn’t one I’ve actually heard of… I hope that it’s still within the distance that I’m prepared to go because it would be a shame to swap to a new student now that I’ve established some sort of rapport with this one.

I had my first meeting with my student today and it went pretty well. It was just a getting-to-know-each-other sort of session and I didn’t really know in advance what her level of English would be, but she already knew a bit of English so it wasn’t too strained.

I hope I can be of use to her.

Yesterday I went to my first day of the course for teaching English to adult migrants. I was actually pretty impressed with how it was run and presented; I think was expecting something a bit more shoddy.

I have to do a few more sessions of the course before I they assign me a student. I’m a bit nervous about this, as apparently some migrants are from non-written language traditions and have no concept of even holding a pencil, let alone reading, writing and speaking in English.

I have signed up for a training course for the English tutoring program. Now I just have to wait until February comes around. I am looking forward to doing this.

I finally rang up the home tutor scheme people today and they are going to send me out some information. Apparently there is quite a bit of training provided (yay!) but there aren’t any sessions running until next year. So now it’s just a matter of booking into a session and then getting assigned to a person to tutor. Apparently the people to be tutored are migrant and refugee women. Hopefully I can do a competent job…

I registered today with a volunteering program to do some English teaching. I don’t know if they’ll want me, because I have a bit of experience but no real qualifications. We’ll see. It could be teaching adult immigrants in their homes or it could be with an ESL teacher in a school. I’d prefer to teach adults I think, but in a school I’d have more supervision which could make it easier. I’m just waiting now to hear back from the organiser.

am busily getting experience in south korea. hopefully teaching small groups of motivated adults will be more rewarding than large classes of uninspired teenagers…