Jinju, South Korea (2019)
Fulbright Korea
As a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, I lead taught an English immersion course for 480+ students across fourth, fifth, and sixth grade at Jangjae Elementary School in Jinju, South Korea. I developed and taught over fifty lessons integrating games, art activities, and language practice.
Each class had its own personality—from the quieter classes who focused hard on textbook activities to the more energetic classes who nearly dissolved into laughter while eating unusual jellybean flavors for our sensory sentence structure camp during winter break.
Five Senses Winter Camp
I designed a four day winter camp scaffolded for fourth, fifth, and sixth graders. Using sight, smell, taste, hearing, and touch, students learned and practiced new sentence structures using interactive, multi-sensory games and exercises.
Sight: Humans of New York Guessing Game
Elementary school students have a strong sense of justice and are beginning to form concepts about people based on their appearance. While studying the “[S]he looks like” sentence structure, we challenged their stereotypes with a multiple choice test.
Taste: Bertie Bott’s Every Flavored Beans
Children love two things: eating things and laughing when something silly happens to their friends. Using Harry Potter-themed jelly beans, we practiced using the “It tastes” sentence structure. Only a taste test could reveal whether an orange jelly bean was peach or vomit flavored!
Culture Lessons
In addition to language practice, the school requested that I share pieces of American culture, which materialized in s’mores, a Christmas murder mystery featuring a missing reindeer, and the Monster Mash dance.
During Thanksgiving, I asked students to draw a disguise for Tom the Turkey so he could escape being eaten. One student disguised him as me!