Shadowing the community intern
For one week I had to shadow a community intern for my own
internship experience; this meant that at every teaching class I was present
and got involved too. There was no school as it was half term for the children
but I taught the teenage villagers who don’t go to university or school and
also the children in the nursery.
The nursery children are very keen to learn as they come
even when school is on half term. There is only a few of them but they all sit
in a circle and we play some games with them. The first thing we did was throw
a ball to them and ask their names and this continues around the circle until
everyone has answered and then the question is changed to something like ‘how
are you’ and ‘where are you from’ and even though they are young they get the
answers right. However, some of them are extremely shy as they are so young so you
have to listen really carefully so you can hear them!
The teenage boys like to learn with more structure, they
have all the words they have learned written down in Thai and English. This is
helpful as we can see what they have learnt and then we test them on it. This was good as they had a few of the basics
down but when testing them on what they know they had a few words they kept
forgetting but by the end of the classes they had finally got them right.
Knowing they had gained something from the class was very rewarding.
The teenage girls choose to have classes separate from the
boys as they get shy speaking English around them. This meant that we had to
teach the girls on a different day. Teaching the girls is different from the boys
as they tell you exactly what they want to learn and the love testing our
knowledge of Pakinyaw too. As well as this they like to just talk to us and get
to know our personalities and whether or not we have boyfriends and husbands
back in our home countries!
Overall the whole experience of shadowing the community
intern was very interesting and I gained a big incite to what it would be like.
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