Back to School

And we're back at it! This week we began our ESL classes with the principals and administrative staff of the two elementary schools of IAM: Oriente (also our church) and San Luis. As of now, we have 8 students in our daily classes of an hour each. Since our ultimate goal is helping these two schools to become bilingual, our plan is to start with the principals first, then train the teachers next year (their school year ends in December) and then help facilitate the work with the students.

We absolutely LOVE it. Our students work so hard and are very gracious to these first time ESL teachers :) It's been really cool to see how Tracey's and my experience/training complement each other so well. I am basically teaching reading again, working with phonics and pronunciation. Tracey is taking over grammar and conversation, very similar to how he taught Spanish in the States. I know I'm biased, but it's pretty awesome team-teaching with each other!

AND - because nobody cares about copyright in Chile, we were able to copy our expensive curriculum for everyone!

It's going to be a great school year.