Training Week 9

We are back in the classroom today, teaching a group of Entry 1 learners. This is the second to last teaching practice week with the key objective of our students being able to prepare a short piece of work about their own journeys from their homelands to Kingston. 

We start off with some map work. We show our students iconic pictures of several capital cities, the countries and continents they are in and their orientation (north, south, east, west). Then we gave an example of the journey of Cesar Picton had from Senegal to Kingston in the 18th Century, teaching some key vocabulary relating to this, which would help our students when they were describing their own experiences.

Our students then had the opportunity to practice the new vocabulary in pairs. We all learned a lot about where each person had come from, why they came to Kingston and what they enjoy about living here. There was lots of participation from our learners who seemed to really enjoy this session, and they even gave our volunteer tutors a round of applause at the end of it!

After lunch, when our learners had departed, we settled down for a theory lesson focused on error correction. Specifically, what errors should be corrected, when, how and by whom. Once again, our ESOL tutor Emma, taught us a new and important concept using engaging and memorable techniques.