This month I’m wrapping up the six month course and my current group of students will be done with their twice-a-week English lessons. I was very happy with the students this term, and I’m hoping the next batch are just as good. Some of my students were very shy this term, and it was sometimes difficult to overcome that in class. Now I think I’ve got just about everybody chattering away in relative comfort in English.
As usual the end of the term is always a little strange in terms of scheduling. Because we want to leave some flexibility for sudden changes, business trips, and any sick days on my part there is about a week to ten days that are open right now. Some of those days I’ll teach a half day of classes, and on another day we’ll have an orientation for the new students starting in October. Hopefully soon I’ll have the schedule for my new course, and that’ll tell me when our starting day is. Since the schedule is in flux I may get a few days off, but these days will be spent making lesson plans for the new students. Based on the number of classes next term, I’m hoping to get a lot of time off to work on lesson planning – I have no time available during the regular work day to do it.
