hello my lovelies~!!! ^^ how is everybody's weekend going?
I'm currently at work~ :) Since this week is all about revision tests, I don't really have all that much to do :P So I decided to stick to my resolution and post a quick update~ ♪
So... work you say? Tests? :O Is this girl working in some sort of insane science lab conducting human experiments?! :O
Haha~ I wish~ ;P As some of you might know, I work as an English Teacher on weekends.
Quantum is run by my good friend Aaron so I'm really happy that I can help out and support his business~ ^^ Atm we offer English and Maths tuition for all year levels and After School Homework Sessions~ hopefully soon we'll expand into tutoring other subjects such as Legal Studies and sciences :)
I would really love to tutor Legal Studies~ ♥
Webcam pic of me and Aaron in the English classroom~ ^^
Anyway, I know what some of you are thinking~ :P Tali? Teaching? What is the world coming to?!
To be completely honest, when I first started doing private tutoring, teaching English was simply the easiest way for me to make use of my knowledge to earn some pocket money (I know~ I'm a terrible person!! Don't judge meeeeeeeeeeeee~!!! ;A;). But once I started doing class tutoring, I actually started to enjoy my job a lot more. It can be a bit challenging to teach a whole class of students sometimes because you always have those difficult students or the students who need a lot of extra attention to learn effectively... but I like to think that it's all part of the job :) Things have definitely been better since I started teaching at Quantum though~ The classes are quite small so it's easier to make sure that all the students get the attention that they need. Plus we actually have a pretty structured curriculum which we devised to make sure that the kids are learning at a consistent pace ^^
As I mentioned before, my students are doing a revision test this week~ :D I'm really glad that Aaron lets me make my own class material~ no random spelling mistakes for one, and it means that I can really properly test the kids' knowledge :)
Also, I've got my students reading a book per term~ ^^ I think reading is so important to learning English (especially for developing vocabulary) and I think it's a huge shame that a lot of the places that I've worked at don't place a greater emphasis on giving students appropriate reading material
:(
Anyhoo, this is the reading list for this term:
Year 5&6 English: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
Year 7&8 English: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Also, I've got my students reading a book per term~ ^^ I think reading is so important to learning English (especially for developing vocabulary) and I think it's a huge shame that a lot of the places that I've worked at don't place a greater emphasis on giving students appropriate reading material
:(
Anyhoo, this is the reading list for this term:
Year 5&6 English: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
Year 7&8 English: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
And this is a pic of me holding the Year 5&6 English Test~ :D
Hehe~ can't wait to see how they do~!! ^^ I hope I didn't make it too hard~ @.@
Where do you work?
What challenges does your job present?
I think working in education is really rewarding, particularly with kids who really put the effort in making improvements :)
ReplyDeletethere are challenges though... like when parents refuse to acknowledge that their child has any problems. without parental help, their kids don't really have that extra push needed to succeed at school unfortunately :(