Vocational Highschool English Teachers' Visit

24 Vocational Highschool English teachers from various places such as the northern part of Maluku, from East and West Nusa Tenggara, some small cities in East Java and other places were visiting the RELO Center. Not just visiting, we had a workshop on how to teach English communicatively and how to create authentic use of English in the classroom. They were actually in the middle of a training in PPPG (Vocational Teacher Training Centre). They were chaperoned by 4 of their trainers.

It was then full of fun when teachers were asked to work in groups and create manuals in processing some activities around their true life, such as ‘how to tie your shoe’, ‘how to choose a fresh fish’, ‘how to change a tyre’ etc. They did not realize how challenging those ‘simple’ activities are, especially when they had to create instructions as detail as possible. Most of them learned that they could use the things and situations around them to teach English.

The visit which was scheduled for only 2 hours went on to 3,5 hours. Teachers enjoyed all the activities and had a lot of questions to ask.

To my understanding this was the fourth group coming to the RELO Center. All from the Vocational Teacher Training Center.