The reaction we received from the K2s was positive in some ways while negative in others. Although they were active and participative in our activities, they got rather too zealous in their actions at times and misbehaved. My partner Yishu and I were at a loss as to how to deal with this well as we had just built a relationship with the students as friends and thus we did not want to spoil this by becoming stern and scolding them. In future lessons, we will have to be able to keep the class in check while minimizing authority.
Another concern was the understanding of the students to our lessons. According to a teacher from the kindergarten, some of the K2s had just transferred into the kindergarten and did not have as good a grasp of English as the others. This resulted in a decrease in quality of communication between the students and ourselves as they were unable to understand us with their limited vocabulary.
In all, I feel that this first lesson was a good realization that we would have to put more research into how to be able to effectively control and teach a kindergarten class.
Brent Tan
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