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So I help this first grader who doesn't speak English very well (he's Korean)to learn how to read/speak English better. His mom picks out 4-5 short books and gives me a notebook and a pen, and I basically just go to a seperate room with the kid and read to him and write down any words he doesn't understand. Sometimes I try to make him read out loud, as well. Problem? He seems to really hate these "classes" if you can call it that. He always asks me why he has to do this, and tells me he just wants to play instead. He's very uncooperative, and refuses to listen to me and just goes and does his own thing. I don't know what to do! If I tell his mom, she'll think I'm not helping him and ask me not to come anymore, and the money is quite good so I don't want to lose the job! Does anyone know any ways to make the classes more fun and stuff and make him enjoy them more... or at least dread them a little less?
(Not sure if its relevant but 15/F)
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Aww, well that must be REALLY hard. Last year I had to help a 2nd grader with math, like counting money, and adding stuff like 10+25. It was so hard like he HATED it, and it was during his recess so he was mad that he HAD to do it. Basically, what I did to make him try and enjoy it a little more was I gave him candy. It was around Christmas time and I told him on Monday, if he was good & didn't complain then I would give him a gift on Friday. Which is what I did. I don't know what your kid is interested in, but mine was into Batman and all that, so I just bought him a tiny Batman figure, and he absolutely loved it. Also, what I did was I put out candy on the desk, and he would use candy to count the digits together, and for every question he got right, he got to keep the candy. In your situation it's not Math but it's learning a different language. Maybe you could just bring him candy everyday and tell him if he's good and doesn't complain he'll get a present, which is candy. You know?
Also, explain to his mother that he doesn't seem to be enjoying the classes. I'm sure there's something she can do and say to you, and tell you what he's mostly interested in, you know?
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you can play games with the words like a matching game and maybe get so books on tape the tell him if he does a good job you will give him a treat or something----hope this will help i know teaching mush be hard
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I'm Korean and let me tell you something about korean kids. They're just fucking spoiled and bratty. End of story. God.. Whenever I walk down the street and see a spoiled little shithead (I live in Korea) I just wanna knock his brains out.
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You have to remember, he's young so of course he's going to want all play and no work. What about during the lesson you guys take a break to play a game if he's been good and he works hard? Like a board game or a computer game.
Or why not try a reward system? When I was young we had charts with our progress and each time we did really good we got a little star sticker. After so many star stickers we'd get something cool.. or at least something cool to someone that young. Like candy, a coloring book, just something small that's not very costly but would spark the interest of a youngin.
When you're reading have you tried using different voices too? I know it sounds silly but if you have different characters try changing up the voices they make so it sounds more interesting and keeps him all interested as well.
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maybe try to make a game out of it or bring candy or something. do you take a foreign laungage in school? if you do im sure you have played some sorta game in your life in that class that you can play with him. maybe tell him if he can read a book all by himself and tell you what it talks about you will take him somewhere or get him something. like maybe instead of having class one day you can take him to a museum or something on american history or something like that. i swear little kids will do anything for rewards. or maybe you can even rent a comp game or something that has something on it that will help him. like vocab games or something i know they make them and have them at most libraries to rent. or maybe you can have a theme to all the books for the week and you can have a game that deals with the themes ( like name all the christmas words he knows that start with c or something) if you need ideas for games let me know i can prob think of something
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