Teaching Sagittarian

Yesterday I struggled.  I struggled with a class that I had been asked to speak to in English about New Zealand.  This is the second time I have struggled with a class over the past week – both classes of students were about the same age.  They were also the same age as my students [...]

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It’s finally here.  Today is the day.  At 1.05pm I begin the first part of a rather long journey which will eventually see me land in stunning Argentina 25 minutes before I’ve actually left New Zealand.   (I love that part!)
For the next 7 weeks I will hopefully blogging as much as I can over at [...]

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I thought that I would use VoiceThread to document my spanish language learning journey. In case you weren’t aware, I recently won an AFS month-long language immersion award to a spanish speaking country as I teach Level 1 (very, very basic) Spanish. After each lesson my tutor asks me to prepare a [...]

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If you’ve been sitting on the edge of your seat, waiting with “baited breath”, checking your RSS for a new blog post from me ….. then the wait is over!
In the mailbox today IT arrived. Yes, the letter I have been waiting for, from AFS …..
“I am delighted to be able to confirm that [...]

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Thanks to the suggestion and encouragement from my partner in webcasting crime, Mr Jason Hando, I recorded myself several times during the drive to my interview in Palmerston North for a MOE / AFSLanguage Immersion Award. After the interview I sat in my car and recorded the questions that I was asked and what [...]

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I’ve applied for a one-month Language Immersion Award for Teachers, sponsored by AFS New Zealand.  Spain was my first choice, Chile, my second choice.
Applications closed on Friday 20 July 2007.  And yes, I put an application in (ages ago)!   Now I wait.

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