Wednesday, April 14, 2010

TEFL: Teaching English as a Foreign Language

Our church has contracted with a professor from the University of California, Riverside, (my alma mater) to teach this course in the hopes some of us will go overseas and teach short-term English classes to nationals as a help to our missionaries.

Tonight it felt like a university course! I've not taught in a school classroom nor prepared lesson plans. I'm feeling inadequate and overwhelmed. What was I thinking?

It's only week 3 of a 10-week course. I'll study and keep slogging through. Maybe it will get better. But I'm thinking 10 weeks isn't enough.