The fifth school is, by all means, acts as an intermediary to handle students before they go to their primary or secondary schools. It can be said that the school handles screening and helps students to brush/develop their English Language so that they could get to the mainstream schools and Australian education system. The students in the school undergo a 20-week program to understand the English system and then sent to schools by random distribution. The students do not have a specific class according to age but they are classified by their language skills.
I have observed two classes. The first one was a Computer lesson with English contexts. The teacher told the students to look at the website 'Behind the News' from the ABC website. It did take the students some time to finish the job and answer the questions. The lesson took almost one lesson (40 minutes) to finish the whole process (worksheet, watching, and reading). The teacher did give some useful information on casual English language and told the students to look out for casual English used in 'Behind the News'.
The second one was rather a straightforward class - Maths in the Secondary section. By coincidence, they were having a Maths test therefore; I do not have the opportunity to observe much from it.
I have to be frank to say that I did not enjoy this comparing to the previous observations, as there is nothing special from it. Other than using ‘Behind the News’ from the ABC, there is basically nothing else that I could take something away from it. All I can say that the teaching was pretty average despite them being very approachable as well as showing their enthusiasm in teaching new immigrants on English Language in all subjects. They do have a mission to cater students needs in order that they would reach the mainstream schools after the second term.
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