Some of the students are so excited to be learning English. We did a section on medical words and the students learned it so well. One of our students went to a doctor’s appointment and got to speak to him in English about the problem (the doctor was European). She was so excited and the doctor was so impressed that she had been learning English. She saw how her studies help her in her life and she was even more excited to continue to learn.

Mahmood is 6 years old, he used to come to school with a violent and angry attitude, he would shout at the class and make a big scene inside and outside of class. His teacher wanted him to succeed and so The teacher pulled him aside to talk. The teacher talked about respect and how he should behave in school. This personal attention worked. His behavior changed and instead of being violent and angry he is able to be in class peacefully. He understood the responsibility and respect necessary for class and now he encourages other students to act better too. This one positive interaction changed the dynamic in a classroom and turned a young boy from distracting other students with his behavior to being an example and leader in this class room.

Ahmad was a lazy student. His teacher spent an extra ten minutes every class to be with him She wanted to motivate him to learn. Using real life situations she showed him how his learning would be important. She explained to him that if his mother is sick, and he needs to go and buy medicine for her, he will need to know how to read the label. She was persistent in her efforts to help him to learn, every day she spends the extra ten minutes with him. She uses real life situations and encourages him with the stories of how the learning of other students has effected their lives. After a while, she began to see change in him, he was losing the laziness and becoming a better student. This was an encouragement to her that her time was not wasted but that the extra time she spent may actually have changed his life and the way he chooses to learn.