Jobs you've worked at?

Hi Folks,

I just remembered another thing I did once, ESL tutoring!

While I was taking full time courses and doing work study job (library job) at King Edward Campus in Vancouver (about 1985?) and being single Mommy on top of it all ... I also was trained through KEC to do ESL Tutoring for homebound people.

My role was to go to the personas home, evaluate and assess them for their language needs, and design/create/structure/set up/facilitate lesson plans, and take them through the lessons. I used a number of things as teaching aids, many things I wrote or drew myself.

I really enjoyed that "job" ... as it was very challenging and I had to improvise a lot, and use all sorts of skills and abilities, including writing and artistic ones. It was also a lot of fun ... and at times very frustrating. Ever try help a person learn how to make a brand new sound that they have never made in their whole lives?
Or tried to help someone with absolutely no English to understand community signs and symbols in order for them to manage getting around and taking car of survival daily business?
Some "learners" had a smidgeon of English, while some had absolutely NONE when I started with them!

It was totally challenging for me being English as my ONLY language trying to help someone who had no English at all but that made for a lot of fun and laughter in some sessions as well

Well ... teaching, no matter what, can be very challenging and rewarding on many levels.



Karmen