Halloween Spirit at SMAN 1 Demak
This month at SMAN 1 Demak, ETA Madison “Maddy” Mele celebrated Halloween with her kid’s club and English club. On October 25, the weekly kids club met in the library where they picked out a paper mask or a crown to color and create a Halloween costume. Students then walked around the school to the.. Read More.
Designing our Dream Cities! Kota Impian!
To finish the descriptive text unit the students in Class X at SMAN 2 Demak wrote about their “Dream City” or “Kota Impian”. In the three weeks before the classes had discussed descriptive texts about objects, people, and places so this was an opportunity to combine this knowledge and previous lessons! Students discussed in groups.. Read More.
Conversation Club Switch up
This month at SMAN 7 Banjarmasin ETA Said Haji switched up his regular programming during English conversation club. Typically Said would lead the discussions, and in the past some topics discussed were mental health, bullying, and education system in Indonesia. However, this month Said implemented a new system to allow for students to take on.. Read More.
Future World Leaders
October in Temanggung was hot and full of celebrations for ETA Lucy Faust. MAN Temanggung celebrated the loss of Headmaster Pak Ali and Vice Principle Pak Musli and the addition of a new headmaster, Pak Hadi, a previous English teacher. MAN Temanggung also celebrated Hari Santri and Bulan Bahasa with performances and competitions that highlighted.. Read More.
Speech Competition
This month was filled with wins for ETA Ammarah Rehman. School competitions are constantly happening in West Sumatra and students are always practicing to bring back first place. This past month, Ammarah trained three students to compete in an English speech contest at SMA 2 Bukittinggi. The students were given five minutes to talk about.. Read More.
Spooky Stories
This month, ETA Michael Walsh wished to incorporate Halloween into his lessons. His tenth grade lesson plan for “Recounted Text” allowed students to work in groups of five. Collectively, the groups were tasked with correctly ordering sentences to reveal a short Halloween story about one of their classmates. Group members were assigned mini-tasks to ensure.. Read More.
Life Maps
SMKN 2 Salatiga is nearing the end of the semester, in which “Past Tense” and “Recount Text” are the last two topics. ETA Michelle Nguyen thought that this was a perfect opportunity to get to know her students better, in addition to allowing her students to get a better snapshot into her life. She prepared.. Read More.
King for a Day
Time doesn’t seem to slow down in Cerme as ETA Gabriel “Gabe” Umland has had a whirlwind of an October. Amidst his regular teaching, Gabe also made fajitas with home made tortillas, attended school marching band competitions, ran a 7K race with ETA Nathan Kumar, judged an English story telling competition, swam in a hot.. Read More.
Traditional Minangkabau Plate Dance (Tari Piring)
ETA Daniel Knoll was invited by his neighbor Hendri (Mamak) to practice a traditional Minangkabau dance named, Tari Piring. Mamak is the Chairman of a Traditional Culture Art School. Daniel invited the three other ETAs in West Sumatra, Ammarah Rehman, Nicholas Navin, and Jillian Castro, to join him. The other ETAs at first happily agreed.. Read More.
A Day in the Life
Even after three months in Indonesia, ETA Nathan “Nate” Kumar is still continually surprised by how different students’ and teachers’ days are compared to his own – whether it is getting up at four in the morning for their first prayer of the day, staying at school long after classes have finished, or spending hours.. Read More.
