To fit the needs of the majority of our students, we tested the idea of scheduling our session one day early, which is on Friday, 6:00 PM Pacific Time.

Friday, November 18th

To fit the needs of the majority of our students, we tested the idea of scheduling our session one day early, which is on Friday, 6:00 PM Pacific Time. If the change of schedule is finalized, then how our teachers can beat the busy evening traffic in LA and arrive on time will be a big challenge.

Ever since we launched Project Puyuma, in order to examine the effectiveness of our teaching material and optimize the flow of our lessons, Teacher Yale will take up the task to teach independently from time to time. Seizing every opportunity to teach allows us to learn from the students as well.

Tonight, our students practiced how to introduce themselves in English. Most of them told us that their favorite animal is a dog. We decide to invite this fluffy friend – Keleguo (Note: the name of a famous snack in Taiwan) to be our special guest tonight; I used the chance to educate them about how to keep a pet. “Keleguo” was born in Taiwan, and he was abandoned by his owner and had lived a very difficult life. Luckily, he was adopted by some nice person in the US, and under the loving care of his new owner, he was able to grow healthy and happy. His dramatic life story provided us a lesson to cherish all living creatures.

In our action-packed one hour and 25 minutes lesson each week, we interact with the students and engage them in speaking, writing, listening and reading in English. Gradually, from the progress of each of our students has made, we know that the hard work of our teaching consultants and volunteer teachers has paid off. We always feel that we receive more than our students do.

One of our sources of motivation is the feedback we have received from the parents of our students. Here we gladly share one of them with all our friends who are following MyGiraffe:

“KK (the student’s nickname) has been getting higher scores in English tests now. When he just started this new semester, he was assigned to be in the lowest-leveled English class. But recently he’s made an impressive progress, and his teacher told him that he doesn’t have to come to the evening tutoring session anymore. He still decided to stay in the evening tutoring session though, and he also found out that the Sunday class is highly related to his English class at school. I can see that he’s developed the interests in learning English, and that is something I’ve never seen in the past. “

Well said! 

<Chinese Version>

2016年11月18日星期五

為了因應多數同學們的需求, 本週實驗性的把上課時間提前一天至美國時間星期五晚上 6:00 開課. 未來如果確定調整上課時間, LA 週末下班時刻的繁忙交通狀況會是需要克服的挑戰.

Project Puyuma 開課至今, 為了更深入的驗收教材編制成效和更優化課程進行節奏, Teacher Yale 會在單元進行中的不同階段, 單兵上陣獨立操作與授課. 把握每一個教學相長的好機會.

今晚孩子們在練習用英語自我介紹時大多表示自己最喜歡的動物就是小狗. 恰好每年這時候家裡都有位特別客人小住幾週, 臨時起意請這位毛小孩 Keleguo (可樂果) 擔任今晚機會教育的特別來賓. “可樂果”出生於台灣, 卻有過一段可憐的遭棄養經歷. 有幸被送到美國由好心人認養後,在多年細心呵護之下健康快樂的成長.戲劇化的造化,也是則”生命教育”的故事.

每週 1 小時又 25 分鐘緊湊卻札實的說, 寫, 聽,讀英語互動學習結束後, 漸漸的在孩子們的身上看到了志工顧問和老師們辛勤付出的成果. 每每覺得我們收穫的比孩子們還要多.

持續給予我們堅持理念的動力來源之一就是收到家長的反饋意見, 在此與關注 MyGiraffe的好友們開心分享：(孩子的全名以 KK 代替)

“KK 的英文考試也有進步, 他入學時, 英文被分到最低等的組別, 但是最近進展神速, 老師跟他講他已經不用參加夜間英文輔導了, 他最後還是決定繼續參加夜間輔導, 他覺得週日的課程跟學校的課程很有關聯, 我看見他從學習中產生樂趣, 這是以前從來沒有的.”

Well said!