Teaching at CMU

Yesterday, Ahmed and I were one of the first groups to teach the learners at CMU. At around 6.25, we eagerly waited for their buses to arrive. However, they ended up arriving 30 minutes late. This made us feel quite worried as we thought that them having to come here every week might not work out. After seeing the excitement on their faces when they first entered the building, we were really hoping that it would.


We first guided them to the classroom and got them settled. We then asked them about how they felt coming to our building. A lot of them preferred coming here than having the classes at their camp. Personally, I think having them at our building is much more beneficial for the learners. This is because they would get the chance to feel like "real students", which would hopefully encourage them to put in a greater effort and take the classes more seriously.


As we were quite behind schedule, we instantly started doing the intermediate material. The listening exercise was the most challenging. We had to repeat the dialogue around 4 times. Yet most of them still didn't manage to do the exercise properly. At that point, it became clear to us that the intermediate material was too hard for them to do. Therefore, next class, we would like to use exercises from the basic material and see how it goes from there.


Aisha