The Struggles of a Foreign Student Teacher
Aug. 15 – THE STRUGGLES OF A FOREIGN STUDENT TEACHER The time has come for me to take over the class. My topic was about the basic fundamental skills in Basketball. The class I was assigned to teach was in Grade 8G. About 85% of the students in the class couldn’t speak English and could only even understand a bit, while some really do not understand English. In teaching Physical education, I am confident about bringing up the topic through physical actions, gestures and body language, especially in a school where English isn’t the medium of instruction. However, I couldn’t really fully depend with just gestures in teaching because we also need to wake their cognitive and affective aspect. Explaining to them the values of the lesson and communicating to them was very hard. But during my discussion, some of the English terms were familiar to them since some of it are close to their native terms. And even though I had my cooperating teacher with me to