We began our Oxford Seminars Teaching English as a Second Language course on Saturday and just got home from Day 2.
All I can say is WHAT AN EXPERIENCE!!! We love it. And I have not seen Mike this excited about anything in such a long time.
We met our instructor, Karen, in November when we went through an Oxford Seminars orientation. She is amazing – a bundle of energy that just returned from a 9-year teaching stint in Japan. Her teaching stories are “real” and learning about Japanese culture has been eye-opening.
And the other students are sooooo varied in age, experience, goals, personality, and more. After spending so much time with Mike here in our house in Duvall working on getting the house ready to sell it has been VERY refreshing to meet and work with other people that are of a like mindset.
Lastly, thank you Denise for all of your helpful info about Oxford Seminars! We can see that you and Billy are happy teaching in Indonesia and we dream about the day that we drive up to our new home in Mexico and begin the second half of our lives.
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Sounds very interesting.
Do they give you pointers for teaching with all ages or are they more geared to one age?
The ESL course is all over the board regarding age as no one knows what age group they’ll be teaching. Our instructor went to Japan and found herself assigned to kindergartners for the first time in her life and she loved it! The things that stick out in my mind so far are the use of games and drawings to teach English…more info on teaching to follow!
A friend of mine who recently moved to England has been attempting to learn English and she is finding it quite difficult, she already speaks 2 languages (French and Spanish) and claims English is the hardest to learn. With all our silent letters and words with multiple meanings English is tough to understand. Inspired by my friend I decided to learn French as second language to help better myself!
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