Not Prepared and Not Supportive - Genie

That's about as much praise as I can give MediaKids for my placement.

We're at PTK school in Nong Khai.

We're teaching M1, M2, and M3 students. Assume I just said 7th, 8th, and 9th graders.

Imagine this was your timeline:

Day 1-2: Traveling
Day 3-6: Orientation and Traveling to the city we're teaching in
Day 7: Teaching

Did you anywhere in there get a schedule of what you're supposed to be teaching? The correct books? A syllabus? Course outline? Background on the English levels of your students?

No.

Because MediaKids is radically unprepared.

For the past two days, I've been scrambling to create lesson plans. I've been taking pictures of my student's books when I'm in class with them and creating lessons for the next day at night.

Now for me, this is purely frustrating. I CAN write my own lessons. I CAN plan my own curriculum. I've been taught to do this. I went to college specifically to learn how to. However, my placement was changed from math to science.

How much high school biology, chemistry, and physics do you remember?

Now stand in a room with 30 students who barely have a grasp of the English language and improv a lesson on physics. Now run to another classroom. Improv a lesson in chemistry. Now run to another classroom and improv a biology class. Now run back to classroom number one and for no good reason, teach them something completely different about something in science - because they have "supplemental science" which is a different class than "science".

There's another guy in our group.

He teaches 'computers'.

We get paid the same.

We have the same "responsibilities".

He teaches 3 classes.

I teach 18.

Can you see why I have no eyelashes?

I can only imagine how this is for Amanda with no formal teacher training. At least she doesn't have to re-learn physics, right?

The nightmare is real.

The nightmare is MediaKids.