Teaching moments

As i sit next to the desk students with them helping with their clay creations, I cant help but to wonder what my job title, the language and culture assistant actually means. apparently, these schools apply for a grant to have a bilingual assistant in there school (thats us). the job consists of simple actions we do alongside the main teacher who still plans and organizes the lessons and takes care of classroom management.

So you might wonder what my job consists of: I help with my 3 assigned classes- art, english, and science. some jobs are: repeating or summarizing the lesson to the children in English, pronunciating words in English, and walking around and helping them with the worksheets or art project in English. I havnt had tomake any worksheets, power points, or plan lessons yet. Im sure that is too come, they just havnt needed it yet because they use a lot of workbooks.

In art class, they have been coloring. so, ive been teaching them basic words in english like colors, pencils, and other art materials. In science, they are learning about the body parts. So, we sing songs like head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes, and play games such as simon says. In english, they are learning numbers, colors, date, and weather. So, we go through those each day.

Easy enough.

(Im excited to plan a lesson about halloween, autumn, leaves changing, haunted houses, pumpkin baking, and other fall festivities which is non-existent here)

Basically, I am there to represent the English speaker. This is a bilingual school, they they want their kids to leave being immersed in the english language while learning their basic lessons.