- Joined
- May 19, 2018
On the good side, I'm not getting fired. On the bad side, I'm going to be under supervision until I start teaching according to protocol. I know it's a business and I'm supposed to follow the rules (and I am going to have to unless I want to get sacked), but it does feel bitter that my good intentions were received with complaints of "Lessons with her are too long and too difficult". Yes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but I really was doing my best to teach them the language and also help them appreciate the wonderful books they were reading... Oh well, I'll just have to cut down the contextual trivia even more than I have already and stop making the kids think for themselves... (sigh)
(hugs) Try not to take it personally. Most of those kids are probably not there by choice. As someone who loathed reading as a kid, I never had a problem with the teachers, just the fact that I had to read at all. Liking the teacher was even worse, because then I felt guilty that I hated the subject (s)he taught. I could have gone to a reading class taught by Kristi Yamaguchi, and it just would have made me hate reading even more, because here's this opportunity to be with my favorite skater at the time, but I'm utterly miserable and can't enjoy it at all because of what we're doing.
That being said, I loved language classes... but if we'd had to read fiction books in the language we were learning, I'd have hated them. (Nonfiction would have been fine. Maybe. If it were a subject I liked. Possibly.)