Hispanic Heritage Month: Read All About It
ETA Emilie Tomas and co-teachers Pak Rinto Tampubolon and Ibu Rohana Gultom were excited to find ways to discuss Hispanic Heritage Month in the classroom. They found the perfect opportunity when the 11th-grade class studied reported speech. Emilie gathered Youtube videos and online articles on the theme and transposed them into five interviews. They covered.. Read More.
Creating Student-Centered Classrooms and Celebrating Courageous Teachers
ETA Joseph “Joe” Janik Miller organized a teacher training on Saturday, October 26 at SMA Negeri 1 Padangsidimpuan. The school hosted English teachers to discuss and practice “Creating Student-Centered Classrooms” with the Regional English Language Office’s English Language Fellow Rosetta Buick. The Head of the Ministry of Education and Culture for the City of Padangsidimpuan.. Read More.
Flickering Flashlight
Halloween was coming up and ETA Angela Zhu had a lot to prepare for her first spooky Halloween in Tana Toraja. Starting with a lesson on basic Halloween vocabulary and figurative language, Angela eventually built up to forming a scary story. The students drew things that scared them as other students guessed the students’ fears… Read More.
Making Announcements
During October, ETA Blake Lapin has been having lots of fun in the classroom. During the second section of Announcement, he and his co-teachers focused on listening activities. The beginning of the lesson allowed students to draw the answers to questions by using a graphic organizer. They were asked to draw an example of public.. Read More.
Masterpieces All Around
As ETA Shannon Pinzon has gotten to know her students better, she has realized the jump in excitement levels when lesson plans include an artistic component. This was especially true during the weeks of teaching “Advertisements.” During this lesson, students were separated into groups and each group was tasked to create their own advertisement from.. Read More.
Tom and Jerry
After a challenging group writing activity, the 10th-grade students of SMAN 1 Seluma were in need of some heart-pumping excitement. Fortunately, ETA Conor Jackman and counterpart Pak Oki had planned the perfect game. At the mention of a game, the students jumped up and pushed the desks aside. The 10th graders stood shoulder-to-shoulder in a.. Read More.
Everyone Gets a Turn
One of the most difficult parts about the Indonesian classroom is navigating the Malu culture–or shyness within the classroom. For ETA Sophia Lockwood and her co-teacher, Bu Endah, there has been a lot of trial and error, but they have found that the students are their most confident while working in small groups. They feel.. Read More.
Despacito
On Wednesday, October 16, ETA Maria Isabel “Isa” Nieves held her fourth English Club meeting. She had been preparing for this meeting for a long time with the help of teachers and her school SMK Negeri 7 Surakarta. The school allowed her to have an English Room in which students could meet up, chill out,.. Read More.
Run and Shout: Making a Lively Classroom
The 11th-grade students at MAN 1 Payakumbuh are an utter joy to work with and the four classes throughout the week in which ETA Nicholas Navin teaches them often end up being little highlights from that day. As the studying frenzy of midterms began wrapping up by the middle of October, a different kind of.. Read More.
Being Muslim American in Indonesia
In October, ETA Shanze “Aisha” Tahir was invited to speak about her experience being a Muslim American at a local school in Malang. For the past three months, she has become close to Wafa’ Hanim, a young woman in Malang who Aisha was connected through one of the speakers at the orientation in Jakarta. Hanim.. Read More.
