Last night (Wednesday) was the ESL (English as a Second Language) class Don and I’ve been teaching for a couple of months or so now.

We’d gotten into a good rhythm with our “regular” adult students when 4 young men were brought to our class by a woman who asked if they could join the class. Of course they could – it’s just that they were absolute beginners of English and our other students could read, speak and write basic English.

Take a look at our lesson we’d plan for last night on the white board – all that went away! We erased it all and literally started with putting the ABC’s up on the board and starting out scratch with them – while having our “regular” students helping out with teaching.

And it worked great! One “regular” student is studying for his citizenship and he did a great job on the white board helping the “newbies” with pronunciation.

So last night was a great night to get us out of our planned and organized routine and force us to change direction on the fly. Challenging – but fun!