Author melissarutter

November 30, 2020    Last teaching class! Another 2-hour class. Students were late but I think this is because it’s so early in japan. Thankfully, all the students were thereby the end. It felt like a more casual class just knowing it… Continue Reading →

November 23, 2020  Another 2-hr. planned lesson, but we only taught 1. No one showed up at 230. I had an intuitive feeling that it would happen. It certainly put a dent in things and we had to be flexible again.   Students… Continue Reading →

November 16, 2020   This lesson started with a vocabulary game and everyone got into the game. It went by so fast; we could have done it twice. At the end of this lesson, students wouldn’t leave! I think we… Continue Reading →

November 9, 2020   This week’s lesson started out with way too much stuff and soon got condensed after meetings with Wendy. We are still trying to figure out what is the right level for these students. The Poll at… Continue Reading →

November 2, 2020  This was the first 2 hr. Lesson and only 3 students were in the first half. This was a big curveball and we had to think on the spot. The 1st half of the class was new material… Continue Reading →

Monday October 26  Students were asked to send in photos again and getting photos from the students melts my heart. It is amazing to see pictures of where they live and what they enjoy. Having them respond to the “homework”… Continue Reading →

Monday October 19  In this class we ran out of time! This was because of a couple reasons. First of all, a task that we figured would only take a minute of two, dragged into over 5 minutes. This was… Continue Reading →

Monday, October 12  This was the first-time teaching ESL 0170 Beginner Reading. I had a lot of anticipation jitters leading up to it, then the class time went by so fast!   Students were not all on time and it was… Continue Reading →