When I first signed up for my TEFL certification class, I was under the impression that I would be teaching school classes, as that is what the program's website states. After starting the course however, I learned that all learning situations in Spain are called "Classes" whether there is one student or forty.
Two weeks into my certification course I got an email detailing my first potential "Class." It was a hour and a half long with a three and a half year old boy named Mario. This confused me because classes with children less than seven years old were supposed to be a maximum of one hour long. An hour was apparently all the attention span of a young child could handle.
As I re-read the email I noticed a note in parenthesis that I missed the first read through: "We wouldn't normally accept a 1.5 hour class for such a small child but as you can see below his grandfather is Irish." I guess an Irish grandfather is worth a fifty percent increase in attention span...
Two weeks into my certification course I got an email detailing my first potential "Class." It was a hour and a half long with a three and a half year old boy named Mario. This confused me because classes with children less than seven years old were supposed to be a maximum of one hour long. An hour was apparently all the attention span of a young child could handle.
As I re-read the email I noticed a note in parenthesis that I missed the first read through: "We wouldn't normally accept a 1.5 hour class for such a small child but as you can see below his grandfather is Irish." I guess an Irish grandfather is worth a fifty percent increase in attention span...