Soon our school will run kids' classes. Let me tell you, there are *lots* of kids' classes, and the system is pretty complicated.
For prospective adult students, you do an interview to judge their level and motivate them. For prospective child students, you do a demo lesson with the child to show their parents the style of the class and how well you interact with them.
So today we just focused on how to teach a demo lesson. We spent nearly three hours actually practising the interviews - lots of standing up and sitting down, running, hopping, doing songs with actions, etc! It was okay, but we all felt exhausted at the end of it!
Our very first prospective child student is coming on Tuesday, and I'm the lucky person who will be doing the demo lesson. Imagine doing a demo lesson with a 4-year-old boy, who speaks no English and will probably be terrified of the 'strange white person', while his mother watches your every ridiculous gesture and your rendition of the 'Letter Song' and the 'Walking Song'...
Hahaha... actually I feel positive after the training session, but you must agree that practising a kid's lesson on your co-workers is somewhat different to practising on a real child. Well, I'll be fine so long as the child is a model pupil who follows my 'script' perfectly, haha...
It was encouraging to hear, though, that we are very unlikely to start with a full complement of kids' classes from day 1 - we'll probably only have a few students at first, so our schedules won't be overwhelmed.
Slightly less encouraging was the trainer's continually saying things like 'now, if the child cries through the whole interview, which often happens...'
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