Teaching the youth approaches and strategies that will enhance their teaching of English to the children in their parishes.
On the first weekend of August, the three Singaporeans MCCC members went up to Battambang for their first ministry. They had their first session on the Shared Book Approach to teaching English on Saturday morning, 4 August. Fourteen youth ‘teachers’ from different parishes in the Apostolic Prefecture of Battambang attended the first of four sessions.
Fr. Totet Banaynal SJ is the overall in charge of this project. He warmly welcomed the group. He suggested that before Frances teach the “teachers” how to teach, she might have to work on their pronunciation, so Frances went through phonics with them for 30 minutes.
Frances going through the rudimentary of the phonics of English
Later she introduced the BIG BOOK -strategies on how to make reading fun and interesting and how to draw teaching lessons for young readers. The ‘students’ responded like young curious readers themselves as the story unfolded. At the end of that session, they all agreed that it was a fun and non-threatening way to teach reading to young charges.
Frances showing the youth the cover page
Laughing at their wrong guesses in revealing the plot of the story
'Mask" the word, one of the strategies taught
A small discussion group at work
Msgr Kike, the Apostolic Prefect, invited all the youth leaders to stay for lunch. He told the youth that it was an opportunity for them to come together to learn and to have fellowship. They were grateful that we were willing to come down to Battambang every weekend to share our knowledge. He asked them to be committed and take the opportunity to attend the four sessions faithfully. He will give the participants a certificate of attendance which will be helpful in their future job application. He also promised to throw a party to celebrate the end of the course.
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