I've been put in charge of a classroom consisting of twenty 13-year-old girls in a small Mexican village. I'm supposed to teach them English and I have zero TESL experience or training. Help!
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"I was a student in a German immersion class. The useful things I remember were when the teacher would call "False" (Falsche in German) when any of us used a grammatically incorrect sentence. Then he would suggest a better wording. My class had to be immersion because it was an international class coming from diverse language backgrounds. Since the teacher had to explain everything in German, it forced us to learn to understand the teacher. The teacher also spoke a lot with his hands and quick cartoon drawings on the chalk board when we didn't get it. Of course, my class was all adults, but it helped that we were struggling to understand sometimes, it forced us to listen, it forced us to think. "
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Games, Games, Games. Get them doing performances in english.
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I'd say fuck it if you can't talk to them in Spanish. You can't teach abstract ideas with immersion very well if at all. I'd make a chart for pronouns and correlate it to the conjugations in Spanish. Yo/I, stuff like that. If you get in trouble explain that something cannot be taugt that way. Do try to use immersion most, like with showing a book and calling its name, but don't hurt their education by not teaching them very important parts of language because of that rule.
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Try to slip in as much Spanish explanation as possible. Tell the students your situation and ask them to go along with you when the head teacher is around.
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Popular English songs! The way my high school spanish teacher got our classes going was by playing us popular spanish songs and having us translate the lyrics into English. It did two things: 1. Make us translate things, so we knew vocab and 2. Made us like more Spanish songs, so we went out and bought more spanish music and immersed ourselves in it outside of the classroom.
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Everyone had some good things but I have one more thing to add: teach them how to teach themselves. Find dictionaries, encyclopedia, good websites, and so forth so this isn't just some class that they took one year and can only recite words but something they grow from.
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I am TEFL certified and I taught in Rio for 6 months. Immersion is really the way to go.
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twenty 13-year-olds, huh? edit: maybe I can cheat and slip in some Spanish when the director isn't nearby sounds good to me! i'd love to slip into some spanish!
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Remember the 80/20 rule: teacher speaks for 20% of the time, students for 80%. introduce a conversation between A and B they repeat it after you they say it to each other, trying out both roles (A and B) they try it out with different partners (as both A and B) you introduce new verbs, nouns, adjectives, phrases that can sub into the conversation they try with various partners, as both A and B, and subbing in new words/phrases It's great to have pics from your local supermarket flyers cut and glued onto cards. Pass them around and have them improvise the basic conversation using whatever pic is on their card.
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