A day teaching

For those of you who don't know, I am an English teach in China. I am currently working at a school in Kunshan, China, which is about 1.5 hours outside of Shanghai. The school is for Taiwanese students, so most of their parents are rather well off, because it is a private school. I don't know what to really say about the school, I just sort of make up what I am doing on any given day and start teaching English. The kids seem nice...

Anyway, today. Things started out ok. I began by making copies of my midterm for one of my classes. My first class was good, not problems really. Generally, I have a break after class, but today I spent is preparing for my observation lesson. For once in my life at this school I actually had to make a lesson plan for the observers. No sweat, just put some good old bullet points in word and I was on my way.
Then I went to my class with the midterm. Since most of the students just jack-around in class, I made it a bit difficult to prove a point. Many of the students' jaws hit the desk at the sight of a 3 page midterm. I got some back within the first 10 minutes. Nice. As i waited for them to all finish, Josh threw a piece of paper out of the window. Normally I ignore Josh, but not today. I made him go and get it, in the rain. From that point the class started to get rowdy, not my thing really. So, I subtracted one point from everyone's exam score, what hell. This made the room quiet. So to earn back that point, I made them clean the classroom, I also did this, because they like to throw paper all over hell and back. After everything was done, I held them after the bell for 3 minutes, just so I could have some silence....God, I hate this class.
Finally, my observation class. I told the students earlier about this special day, so they wouldn't mess it up for me. They didn't. It was the smoothest class I ever taught! The vice-principle even liked it.

Well, after my prison lunch, which was terrible as normal, I did some grading. Some of these kids are just plain ignorant. They don't pay attention and won't even guess at a true/false question for a point. Seriously, how lazy can you be? Oh, well, I am finished with school, well at least at this level.

When I took a short stroll around the school I noticed something odd. Here it goes, "What do you do with an autistic kid, who generally disrupts class?" Sit him in the back of the class and give him fire to play with. No seriously, this is what goes on at my school. I doubt the kid gets the attention he needs for learning. BUT FIRE? come on, please.

Well that was another exciting day in teaching....maybe not exciting, but interesting to say the least.