{"id":248,"date":"2010-10-05T10:07:14","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T15:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/?p=248"},"modified":"2010-10-05T10:07:14","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T15:07:14","slug":"the-first-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"The First Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I had a meeting with the teacher of the first class I will meet.\u00a0 I am doing a short PowerPoint presentation for them tomorrow morning. \u00a0 Then, the students will introduce themselves and talk about what experiences they&#8217;ve had teaching English, while I take note of any pronunciation weirdnesses I hear.\u00a0 If something is quite incomprehensible, I&#8217;ll give some gentle feedback.\u00a0 Then the students will work on putting together an English lesson for young children (they&#8217;re going to be elementary school teachers).\u00a0\u00a0 While they&#8217;re working on lessons, I&#8217;ll be there for them to consult.\u00a0 That might be all for the week.\u00a0 Hopefully, next week will be busier, but because all of the teachers are so busy, I may have to harass them about my schedule.\u00a0 In any case, I&#8217;ll probably do the same lesson with a different group next Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The teacher used to do inservices for current teachers.\u00a0 This is her first time teaching &#8220;pre-service&#8221; teachers.\u00a0 So, I guess it&#8217;s a bit of a first for both of us.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll let you know how it goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I had a meeting with the teacher of the first class I will meet.\u00a0 I am doing a short PowerPoint presentation for them tomorrow morning. \u00a0 Then, the students will introduce themselves and talk about what experiences they&#8217;ve had teaching English, while I take note of any pronunciation weirdnesses I hear.\u00a0 If something is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}