Pár hete interjún voltam a helyi lapnál, mint a város első Comenius asszisztense igazi kuriózumnak számítok :) Még arra is rávettek, hogy a fotók kedvéért sapka és kesztyű nélkül merészkedjek ki a hóesésbe, és még hógolyókat is gyártsak... Már akkor sejtettem, hogy nem átallanak majd olyasmiket írni, hogy élvezem a havat és a hideget, de hogy a hó újdonság számomra, ki gondolta volna? :)
Azóta sikerült egy példányt beszereznem az ominózus lapból, és egy ismerősöm le is fordította, íme:
“Individually - knowledgeable, working as a team - more problematic”
A Hungarian guest teacher`s observations
A mathematics lesson at the 15th high school is taking place in English. The teacher is Marta Krusper - a guest teacher from Hungary. She has come to Latvia as part of an EU project “Comenius”, which gives young teachers the opportunity to gain international experience.
Latvia is not the first country in which Marta Krusper has lived and worked. She has also worked in Great Britain and she has also taught children with special needs in the Czech Republic. After Latvia Marta hopes to return to the Czech Republic and after that to go to Australia.
The young guest teacher willingly shared how she felt about her current home and work place - Liepaja. In Liepaja Marta Krusper is teaching high school students maths in the English language because her qualification is mathematics teacher. But that is not all. Marta is teaching elementary school children Hungarian dancing, she teaches English to the teachers and the students` parents. People who are interested can learn the fundamentals of Hungarian. The young teacher herself is learning Latvian and, even though she has been living here only since November, she already understands and can say quite a lot.
Marta told us, that before she came to Liepaja, she was trying to find all available information about our country on the internet, and now she can evaluate how much of that has really been useful. “My opinion is that Latvia as a country is a lot more interesting than I have seen in various clips on the internet.” She says that Latvia has beautiful nature, that the capital city Riga offers a great diversity in its cultural life. She likes that the old castles have been preserved and are open for interested people.
In Liepaja the guest teacher likes Karosta the best and the beach too. It is unfortunate that she is in Liepaja now during winter, but even so the nearness of the beach fascinates her. Snow is also a new and nice experience for her. Marta would like a more active cultural life and she really regrets that the 1st rock cafe had to be shut down because young people don`t have many opportunities to meet together. Marta likes the theatre and she often goes to Riga where she meets with other guest teachers participating in the “Comenius” project. “When in Riga I definitely go to the ballet because I like it very much. I have also been to the circus and to the festival “Zelta Kārlis”, because I really like the circus,” says the young Hungarian girl.
A Hungarian guest teacher`s observations
A mathematics lesson at the 15th high school is taking place in English. The teacher is Marta Krusper - a guest teacher from Hungary. She has come to Latvia as part of an EU project “Comenius”, which gives young teachers the opportunity to gain international experience.
Latvia is not the first country in which Marta Krusper has lived and worked. She has also worked in Great Britain and she has also taught children with special needs in the Czech Republic. After Latvia Marta hopes to return to the Czech Republic and after that to go to Australia.
The young guest teacher willingly shared how she felt about her current home and work place - Liepaja. In Liepaja Marta Krusper is teaching high school students maths in the English language because her qualification is mathematics teacher. But that is not all. Marta is teaching elementary school children Hungarian dancing, she teaches English to the teachers and the students` parents. People who are interested can learn the fundamentals of Hungarian. The young teacher herself is learning Latvian and, even though she has been living here only since November, she already understands and can say quite a lot.
Marta told us, that before she came to Liepaja, she was trying to find all available information about our country on the internet, and now she can evaluate how much of that has really been useful. “My opinion is that Latvia as a country is a lot more interesting than I have seen in various clips on the internet.” She says that Latvia has beautiful nature, that the capital city Riga offers a great diversity in its cultural life. She likes that the old castles have been preserved and are open for interested people.
In Liepaja the guest teacher likes Karosta the best and the beach too. It is unfortunate that she is in Liepaja now during winter, but even so the nearness of the beach fascinates her. Snow is also a new and nice experience for her. Marta would like a more active cultural life and she really regrets that the 1st rock cafe had to be shut down because young people don`t have many opportunities to meet together. Marta likes the theatre and she often goes to Riga where she meets with other guest teachers participating in the “Comenius” project. “When in Riga I definitely go to the ballet because I like it very much. I have also been to the circus and to the festival “Zelta Kārlis”, because I really like the circus,” says the young Hungarian girl.
Marta has her own point of view and evaluation of our school children. Since Marta is teaching an exact subject – mathematics, she has concluded that girls and boys have very good academic knowledge. “Liepaja`s young people can surely compete with their academic knowledge internationally”, says our guest teacher. However, she confesses that our young people lack the skills to work in a team. Individually they are knowledgeable, but when something has to be done together, there is a lack of communication skills. This was noticeable in a debating club competition where Marta was invited to be one of the jury members. Marta Krusper thinks this could be a great disadvantage in the job market because currently the skills of working in a team are very highly valued in the world.
“I noticed that your young people are reserved, they don`t often greet each other, they do not respect teachers outside the classroom, the boys do not allow the girls to go through the doorway first”, Marta expresses her observations.
Marta really likes our groceries. She has never found food products that are similar to those she can buy in Hungary anywhere else. In Hungary people also like cottage cheese, sour cream, biezpiens in chocolate icing. According to Marta, “Kārums” here in Latvia is just as delicious as the same sweet in Hungary.
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