Teaching in China has its rewards
| While in China as part of a volunteer teaching program, Newfolden resident Alice Sather (center) heard someone calling her name. It was her student Michael Lam. She teaches him piano, and last year, she served as his fifth grade English as a Second Language teacher in Thief River Falls. For the past two summers, Newfolden resident Alice Sather (back row, center) has taught English for a month at Haining Haigao Senior High School in Haining, Zhejiang, China. Sather taught there through the Global Language Villages Program. |  |
Most students have had English one, two, three, four or five years by the time they have entered the immersion program, Sather said. In her first year of the program, she taught the students who have had the least amount of English lessons. Last year, she taught the students who have had the second least amount of English lessons. Most of Sather’s students were between the ages of 13 and 15, and they probably already had one or two years of English. It may have been difficult for them to understand what was going on in their classes. “They have to speak, write English. All activities are done in English,” said Sather. “We also teach American culture.” In the course of their English lessons, the students learn about such things as American vacations, family structures, homes and food.
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