Just a quick note as to why elementary school teachers in this country should never be required to teach English. Here is the model conversation from my lesson plan for tomorrow:
T: What’s this?
C: It’s a spoon.
T: I wish spoon
(I boil the water. I make cookies)
And that’s one of the better ones. Only one piece of complete nonsense. It’s nothing compared to one school who always finishes their lesson plans with
‘This is a plan. Except this is sufficient. Please simplify a low grade. You may not be this plan.’
The second school puts effort into their lesson plans, they’re just not always the best. The first one reuses the same lesson plans they have used since the dawn of time, forgets my name and generally seems to not do much in the way of helping me teach (when I’m meant to be the assistant). This makes me feel less bad about planning my own, completely unrelated, lessons.
They also refer to me as an ART, because (obviously) I Assist in the Teaching of Ranguage.
