Teach to your audience

I just finished my class in San Francisco today. I teach people that want to be ESL teachers in countries outside the USA. This class was four students and only one really wants a teaching job in another country. She will teach in Mexico. The other students are not really going to look for jobs, they took the class either to help them with volunteer work or because they want to improve their own English. Usually the last Saturday I help my students write their resumes and how to find jobs and how to do interviews. This month I didn't do that since that isn't relevant to the students, the one student that will get a teaching job has been teaching for 11 years.

So, this month I scanned my flashcards so the people that want to do volunteer work have flashcards on their computers/ipads that they can use anywhere. I also changed what I taught this month to make sure everyone found different ways to help their students learn grammar and it will help my students too. Like always I emphasized, "you can't learn if you don't laugh!". Next week a new class that I will teach at UC Berkeley.