On Teaching

Teaching has gone much better this week and I haven't had to fight with my student's attention spans nearly as much as I've brought them solid articles to read and questions to answer about them. I was able to find teaching resources here and I will continue to use this very helpful website till April. This week has actually gone rather well and been rather enjoyable. I'm remembering why I came here in the first place. In other reflections, seeing the looks of confusion on the faces of my students who seriously don't understand English makes me really want to help them get better. But how do you help someone when you don't have much time or material to work with? It would require much careful and close tutoring. On the other hand, in terms of school, I'm realizing that it's not really fair to ask students to be good at every subject. It's not incredibly realistic, and why should a student have to feel stupid because they can't wrap their heads around a subject that surpasses them? I think the problem is rather with the system, not with the student.