An awesome week again, full of teaching and then relaxing en la playa, its a dream life. Im a little aprehensive about going into the final week with the observed lesson, but i should be all planned up and ready for it! Classes at the end of the school day with challenging teenagers is never going to be an easy gig!
Went paella cooking on the weekend with the group. Loved it, and i tihnk we all enjoyed eating the results. I had a very relaxing Sunday trying to get as much of the sun before being indoors again tomorrow! Im learning more and more that teaching face to face is much more enjoyable than online teaching, transferring back onto online classes after teaching in a school is really quite dull!
Im very grateful that opportunites like this exist, because its a great taste of what the reality is like. Teaching doesnt end after the last bell, its hard! But i love it and would like to make it my fulltime job.
Week 2/4
Another week of teaching has come to an end and I am looking forward to a lay in tomorrow! As much as I am enjoying teaching and this entire experience, getting up at 5:30 isn’t the best! Last week, I taught activities but not entire lessons. This week I started teaching full lessons. On Monday, I had my first lesson which also happened to be my observed one. It was a 4ESO Oral English class who had requested a lesson on Mamma Mia. This was a challenging lesson to plan as it was so broad and my mentor gave me all the freedom to do whatever I wanted. I wanted to create a fun lesson that they actually enjoyed as well as learning something. It worked out pretty well in the end and the students enjoyed the lesson. The observed lesson wasn’t nearly as scary as I was expecting. The teacher just sat at the back and let me get on with it. Afterwards, she told me it was well structured and fun for the students so the positive feedback was encouraging. For the rest of this week, I have taug...
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