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[00:00.64] Aimee: So your favorite age group is the junior high school age.

[00:03.64] Katie: Yeah.

[00:04.39] Aimee: Do you have much experience teaching younger children?

[00:07.39] Katie: Younger children like toddler age?

[00:09.64] Aimee: Well, how about elementary school?

[00:12.14] Katie: Yeah, elementary school. I've been teaching for about five years, five or six years. They're fine. You just have to be a bit silly with those kids.

[00:20.64] Aimee: Yes.

[00:21.64] Katie: Have a good time. Can't really be too serious when you're teaching young kids because they're still kids.

[00:27.39] Aimee: That's true. So how about younger than that? How about the kindergarten age? How are they for you?

[00:32.89] Katie: They're probably my archilles heel. I'm not great with kindergarten students or younger than that because they don't respond to reason.

[00:43.39] Aimee: Right.

[00:46.14] Katie: Yeah. So they – I mean, yeah. They're difficult for me to teach.

[00:50.89] I prefer teaching older students.

[00:54.89] How about you? What kind of age range do you like teaching?

[00:58.89] Aimee: I think I appreciate all parts of all age groups.

[01:04.39] Every group has its pros and cons.

[01:08.14] Recently, I've been teaching university students, and I think I'm remembering how much I enjoy it because, you know, they are adults and you can teach them like adults.

[01:20.14] And you can still have a bit of silly, fun with them, too.

[01:24.39] Katie: Yeah.

[01:25.14] Aimee: So these days, I think I prefer teaching the older students, university age students. You can, you know, you can really go into topics quite deeply.

[01:34.64] Katie: Yeah.

[01:35.89] Aimee: And you can get some interesting answers from some students. Other students, of course, you can't.

[01:47.89] Katie: Everyone is different, right?

[01:49.14] Aimee: Yes. You just have to find a way of teasing, teasing their potential, of all of them, I think.

[01:57.89] Katie: Is there a group that you don't like teaching?

[02:00.39] Aimee: I'm not used to junior high school children, junior high school students.

[02:05.14] I don't have any experience with them. So that would make me nervous, I think.

[02:10.39] Katie: How do you think they would be different to university students?

[02:13.64] Aimee: I think, from what I mentioned before, the teenagers, the hormones. I think that would be different.

[02:21.14] There's, you know, it's bubbling inside them, all of these changes of feelings and emotions. And they have so many things to deal with; pressure of growing up. And I think that can be more challenging.

[02:36.39] But I think it's important as a teacher to try to remember what it was like when you were that age.

[02:43.64] Katie: Yeah.

[02:44.39] Aimee: I think that's the biggest thing that will help you.

[02:46.89] Katie: Absolutely. So what do you think about teaching younger children like babies? How are you with that?

[02:52.89] Aimee: I do really enjoy that. Babies are awesome. They have their own set of needs.

[02:58.64] But usually, the very young classes come with, you know, the parents are there, too.

[03:03.14] So it's kind of a group-led situation, teacher-led group. And yeah, it's good fun for me.

[03:10.14] They're very cute and squishy. And very – not uncontrollable – what's the word?

[03:24.14] Katie: Unpredictable?

[03:24.64] Aimee: That's it. Completely unpredictable. You know, one day they can be in the best mood ever, and then the next day, they're just a nightmare.

[03:30.89] Katie: I think that's why I'm terrified of them, because they're so unpredictable. I don't like it.

[03:34.14] Aimee: Yeah. That's true. And the bodily functions too, you know.

[03:38.14] Katie: Yeah, no thanks.

[03:39.14] Aimee: There's all of that.

[03:41.14] Katie: Yeah. I'm not prepared to deal with that. No, thank you. No, thank you. No bodily functions.