by | October 14th, 2006
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This video is worthy of post of its own for a number of reasons:
- It’s very well done and of a reasonable length – long enough to give you a rounded view of his day, short enough that you don’t fall asleep. Okay…I like the Daniel Powter song too.
- Actually seeing something is far better than just reading about it (someone may have come up with a clever saying about this…something about 1000 words?)
- You see some cool things – students with a sense of humor, friends, a cool bus driver – and some realistic not-so-cool things – large classes, somewhat difficult to understand students (though that could be because of the background music) and the school bathroom. Yikes.
- You see his flat. And the setup is remarkably similar to mine! Except instead of a nice desk, I have five armoires. Seriously though, it’s always interesting to see where other people live, but very valuable to get a glimpse of where you might be living if you teach overseas.
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i taught in china 2 summers ago through concordia language program and found this video very realistic. the friendliness of the chinese, the push cart food, the enthusiasm of the students (and these students were quite fluent compared to some!), and yes, the concrete school and school bathrooms. This number of students in class was about twice the size our classes and the classroom furniture more modern though traditional with the raised teacher desk at the front.
Thanks for leaving a comment, Jan. I think the video is very cool and it’s neat to hear from you that it is realistic.
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