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Q: What have been your favourite teaching moments?
I was teaching in Yunnan for a year, and have stopped since moving to Beijing. Sometimes I miss it, sometimes I'm so glad I never have to do it again....but thinking back I have had some great students and some really fond memories.
My favourite all come from creative writing courses that I taught. One girl in particular would come into class with a big smile on her face, pig tails as high as you could get them and the standard 12 yr old girl giggle, but man her stories were dark. Death, destruction, loss....she once asked me what you call a person with no arms. But they were so well written. She was always a hilarious treat.
Anyway, it is sometimes hard to remember the good times of teaching when you have to deal with annoying parents, bored children with bored curriculum, so I thought it would be nice to share. Does anyone else have shining lights in their memories of teaching??
10 years 33 weeks ago in Teaching & Learning - China
Kindergarten in Jixian, Hebei, some 14 3 - 5 Y old students.
Lesson: 'stand up', 'sit down', 'turn around', and 'give a hug to each other'.
I call out all commands, and show meaning to the kids with action. TA is repeating my commands in Chinese. At 'give a hug to each other', I hug TA.
Then we repeat all 4 commands in English, only. TA is on break.
When I say: 'give a hug.......', all kids run toward me, and try to hug me. All in the same time. Falling on the floor, walking over each other, some crying, grabbing my wool sweater, all in the move to give me hug.
I like to repeat that lesson in every Kindergarten, especially when parents are in the 'show room'.
Apparently, it is very difficult to translate 'each other' to Chinese.
My favourite teaching moments are generally the ones just before my class finishes and i'm able to tell everyone to f**k off.
Uni students : Their exam was Celebrity interview...This guy (called Rubbish) didn't have a partner, so he did both parts, the interviewer and the celebrity - Osama Bin Laden (who is living in Hell). So he asks the questions and then changes his position for the answer...I was on the floor...I remember one answer : 'Yes, sometimes when I walk around Hell, people throw stones and rotten veggies at me.' 
