Culture Shock in a Spanish Elementary School
Continuing my series about culture shock in Spain (I’ve talked about supermarkets and Spanish homes so far), I’d like to talk about things that have surprised me or that are quite different from American elementary schools. I’ve worked at a big school down south and a tiny rural one up north now, so I hope that my observations are more than just one place’s idiosyncrasies. Teachers View this post on Instagram View from the elementary school I work at, one of a handful in this tiny rural village A post shared by Trevor Huxham (@trevorhuxham) on May 5, 2014 at 4:37am PDT When I first started working as a language assistant in Andalucía, I was shocked when the teachers would show up five minutes before school started and then leave as soon as the last class of the day was over. My mom teaches kindergarten and always arrives an hour early in the morning and leaves an hour after the day is over to lesson pla