Several nice things to share but for now ....Ghosts ka:))
My colleague and I finished the last leg of our assessment visits to 20 schools yesterday. It ended beautifully with our happy hearts to go home tonight.
The last school we went is a small school about an hour from Chiang Mai city. We met with a few teachers and one told us that, 'Matthew (our young American Fulbright grantee who teaches there), saw a ghost in his house (which is an old government type housing ka)'.
He then asked his students whether they knew if there was a woman die in his house before!' the teachers there jumped and tried to find out whether it was true.
Well! After talking with Matt, they learned that it was his trick to attract Thai students' attention. He told us that he observed that the kids are very much into ghost stories ka. He even invited them to his house to 'catch ghosts'.
After the story he invented, he has seen his class with full attendance. Since then, he has to tell ghost stories in English obviously....every time he has his class with this group of students. I asked him where he got all the stories from.
His answer in Thai, 'จินตนาการ'!
I sure will go home, feeling so good how an American teacher is highly capable of being responsive to his students' learning styles learning from their context and their culture!
My heart is even happier until now to know that after the Fulbright grant, he has decided to stay on for one more semester (in this small school with mainly disadvantaged students).
His reason was, 'I want to see my mor 3 students graduate'!
Happy day na ka!
Porntip
Wed 9/5/2012 8:40 AM
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