Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Today we went to Lenoir City to visit schools there. It was interesting because there are some things that are different from our reality in Brazil, especially when we see the quantity of materials the teacher has in his class. By the way the teachers work in the elementary school is very similar I'm accustomed to work in a private school but not with English, although it's different the way the kids behave, the size of the classes and the technologies the teacher has in class...
I don't know if I it's good to say or not, but I felt disappointed with our visit at Lenoir Schools because we only have lunch at the high school, the one I was really interested to know better... stayed there less than an hour, didn't have time to talk with teachers and immediately we had to go to the other school... and at elementary we also have little time.. . All of us were expecting to have more time at high school, because nobody of us work with elementary kids...   everybody expected to know more about the way teachers work in class with older students...

Monday, February 4, 2013

Last Saturday we went to the Cherokee Village and we visited a very good school. The classrooms are big and have all the material the teacher needs to work. The director showed us the school that is divided in three segments: Kinder garden, Elementary and high school. There was a thing that called my attention; in the elementary level the boys and the girls study separately because it's the age they usually fall in love, so it's better for them be separated to pay more attention to the classes.

We were supposed to go to the Museum, but we couldn't because fortunately the snow gave us a show!!!!






We played a lot... it was awesome... We played a snow balls war!!!