Dear friends,
My co-teaching experience with Ashley & Chia-Ling has been an adventure in learning about teaching and Taiwanese culture.  We not only lesson plan together, but we also share stories about our lives. Check out photos in this album.

With Chia-Ling, I co-teach fourth & sixth grade and also run Storytime with the first, second, and third graders. With Ashley, I co-teach 5th grade and co-run English Club. We are all very very busy, but we've also had a lot of fun lesson planning, socializing, and getting to know one another.

When we co-teach, it is also co-learning, as I learn about their local teaching styles and they learn about my teaching style. Together, we model dialogs for our students, have them repeat and pronounce words together as a class, then as a team, then as a pair, and then individually. We have sentence-building exercises, spelling games, phonics jeopardy, charades games, doodle and spell activities, and many other activities for our students. These classroom activities keep them focused, engaged, and learning while having fun.

In teaching the younger grades 1-3 English, Chia-Ling and I will use the www.starfall.com website to show them interactive stories.

For English Club, Ashley and I have done so much with the students! We have worked on:
1) Flat Stanley project
2) Taught them the Macarena Dance, Hokey Pokey Dance, and other songs
3) Played games (7-Up Heads Up, etc.)
4) Taught them about Holiday Culture: Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas
5) Started Comic Book packets for them to understand American humor
6) Let them watch the third Harry Potter movie
and 7) Created an informational map of the United States

Here are some pictures of English Club building the map of the United States and drawing in each state what each state is famous for:

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Chia-Ling, Ashley, and I recently had to deliver a presentation on the English curriculum to the entire faculty of Hua Shan. You can find the powerpoint we made here. Be sure to take a look; it will give you a good picture of some of the things we do at school.

Our Powerpoint Presentation

Check out photos in: Taiwan Photo Set 28- My Students at Hua Shan =D!

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