Rehearsals for Disaster
Someone had this great idea to show off the kindergarten to the parents. Or maybe the parents grew impatient with their children’s progress (or lack thereof) and demanded to know just what the hell we were doing with their money... er children for five hours a day. Whatever the case may be, next week the parents are coming to observe a class while we’re teaching. Ironically it isn’t a regular class. It will be a special presentation. So they won’t see what actually goes on (thank goodness). However, I doubt this will be any better. You see it’s cooking class. Except twice as long as normal. That means 80 minutes. And we’re making chocolate chip cookies. I don’t remember... how old were you when you first made chocolate chip cookies? Were you five?
Maybe Drew can give me some tips on this process...
My class rehearses tomorrow. I can’t get Jin to sit down and color a picture, how am I supposed to get her to make cookies? I think it will probably be a disaster, so I’m not too worried. So far both classes who have tried so far have been failures. Katrina’s pretty sure we’ll lose students over this. I’m not quite as optimistic as that. I just hope their parents have a good sense of humor.
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Hey man, so I guess Banana Island is a pioneer hakwon, with its fun cooking classes! Everyone else is following our obviously wonderful hakwon's example. Hey, wanna quit ECC and come teach at BI in Ilsan?
Alright, enough of the BI BS.
In cooking class, you want to hold up the ingredients and ask the kids what they are, what color they are.
Maybe go around with the butter and let them smell it.
Fill the measuring cups, then have a kid pour the cup into the bowl.
Let all the kids do some mixing.
Show them the dough when it's done.
Put balls of dough on the cookie sheets.
Introduce the kids to the oven. Put the cookies into the oven.
If the class is 80min, have something else to do (like reading a book or doing a lesson) while the cookies bake.
Otherwise, if time is a concern, have some cookies already baked for the class to eat.
I hope I gave at least one piece of helpful advice there.
Give it a go!
-Drew
thanks man. those are all good suggestions. that's pretty much how it went today. somehow it ended up taking the full 80 minutes, what with all the cookie cutting and baking. i had a game ready, but we didn't have time for it.
do you like your hagwon?
My hagwon isn't too bad, it just takes a lot of effort to plan ahead for the cooking, science, and gym classes. My co-foreigner is very firm and opinionated, and I often keep my mouth shut when making decisions to avoid saying something "foolish."
She knows how to cook, she's leaving next month, and the cooking classes will remain. I managed the classes well when she was gone in February. We'll see how it goes.
Good job teaching your first successful cooking class!
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