New Teachers at JEC

Hello everybody.

I hope you are all well and happy.

We have been busy here and I think we are all looking forward to the weather warming up in Australia. It has been a cold winter, but now it is spring and it should start to get nicer soon.

A lot of us have been ill recently with colds so we definitely think that it is time for a change.

We have recently taken on several new teachers to help with the increased number of students.

As usual, Emma came up from Adelaide to train the new teachers and to teach them everything they needed to know about teaching with the Callan Method.

For the new teachers it is a very difficult time because there is a lot to learn very quickly and they have to work very hard to get ready to go into the classroom.

I remember when I started teaching the Callan Method that I was very nervous, but I was lucky because the students were very nice. It does not take long to become comfortable in the classroom and then you can relax a bit and enjoy teaching. There is still a lot to think about with all of the different students with different pronunciation problems, but it becomes a lot more natural.

Our teachers try to make teaching look easy, but there is a lot more to teaching than most realise. We want our students to just concentrate on learning.

Here are our new teachers, our current students know them well and they are enjoying their lessons

(from Left) Lisa S, Larissa, Chris, Ben, Anastasia and Lisa W

As always I hope that you are all well and happy, wherever in the world you are.

Take care

John