Learning about Día de los Muertos!
The second week of November brought an English Club meeting that focused on Día de los Muertos and aimed to introduce students to Mexican culture’s presence in the United States. ETA Emma Barnes gave a short presentation about the holiday and described some of its most distinguished traditions, including decorated skulls and the making of.. Read More.
Apples to Apples Provides ALL the Laughs
The month of November flew by for ETA Gordon “Peter” Bensen as the semester at MAN 1 Kota Payakumbuh came to a close. In this month, Peter made new friends, participated in Gotong Royong, launched his CEPS, celebrated Thanksgiving, went on field trips with other teachers from MAN 1, played in a football tournament, and.. Read More.
Racing Around the Classroom
November marked SMA Negeri 1’s last 10th-grade unit of the first semester: announcements. To encourage students to approach this unit with curiosity, teachers Ibu Yulia Mufarichah, Bapak Khasan, Ibu Nur Chasanah, and ETA Sarah Wozniak introduced their classrooms to “Read and Race.” In this activity, students raced around the classroom, reading and remembering sentences from.. Read More.
Stop the Bus
In the closing lessons of the first semester, ETA Neelam and her co-teacher Ibu Wiwik focused on verb tenses. In the midst of the end of the semester when moral can be low and final exams are around the corner, they knew that teaching grammar lessons would be challenging. Still, they worked together to create.. Read More.
International Pen Pals
At the beginning of this month, ETA Amanda Cahn began her community engagement project with some of her 11th grade students: pen pal letters to 7th-11th grade students at Liceo Jose Manuel Borgono Nunez in Petorca, Chile, where she taught last year. In the photo, students are working on their first letters. The students were.. Read More.
Selamat Hari Guru!
ETA Sophia Lopresti and her co-teacher, Ibu Popi, usually meet with class 11 MIA 1 on Mondays. On November 26, however, class had been cancelled for a celebration of National Teachers’ day. The students were excited, the teachers were carefree, and Sophia was kind of confused! When Sophia was a little girl in elementary school.. Read More.
Joyful English Learning
On November 13, ETAs Allison Cwikla and Anna Ringheiser were given the opportunity to present as guest speakers at “Enhancing Joyful English Learning”, a full-day conference for senior high English teachers located throughout Central Java. Allison and Anna shared and practiced a few of their favorite engaging classroom activities from the first semester. Allison shared.. Read More.
Thankful
The week before Thanksgiving in the United States, ETA Anna Ringheiser shared a story of the first Thanksgiving with the kids in the English Club for Kids. Anna used this as an opportunity to teach about the history of the first Thanksgiving, and also draw attention to the history of native peoples in the United.. Read More.
Sunday?! You must mean Fun-Day!
On Sunday, November 4, ETA Elizabeth “Liz” Wallace had the pleasure of running an English Teaching Workshop for teachers in the Gresik community. Over 30 teachers spent their Sunday morning with Liz at SMA NU 1 Gresik. Liz designed the workshop to focus on active learning and bringing the concept of “play” into the classroom… Read More.
The 8th ALSA English Festival
After weeks of two-hour daily competition practices, eight students from MAN Demak were ready to compete in the 8th Annual ALSA English Festival in Semarang, Central Java. ETA Sabrina Verleysen and her co-teacher Ibu Emma accompanied the eight students throughout the English Festival and Competition. Students from MAN Demak fearlessly competed across four categories including.. Read More.
