The stare and ditch project

The very best part of having two trainee student teachers and an absent coworker is that rather than have a friendly ratio of two teachers to twenty students, you can combine the classes and suddenly be rolling with five teachers to forty students. Now that’s quality education. The payoff comes when you walk into class, and all four Japanese teachers retreat directly to the back, where they’ll stay for the remainder of the lesson, leaving you blinking frantically at the front. Rabbit in the spotlight. 88 eyes and nowhere to run. Sometimes, I feel like bringing a torch to class, shining it on my face, and stumbling through the desks yelling “Josh! Josh! Tell me where you are!”

Posted in Schooled on Thursday June 29, 2006.