I taught my 1st CELTA class!
I was very nervous this morning as I walked to the British Council.
After going through my lesson and story a few times, and letting go, I started to relax--although not completely.
I forgot a lot of stuff (i.e., asking instruction concept questions/ICQs, sticking with the time limits, getting everyone's attention, remembering to use each student's name, etc.), but I also did a lot of stuff pretty well. I was able to catch myself doing something I shouldn't, then change it into the way I should have done it from the beginning. This means I'm getting it, remembering it, and able to remind myself as I'm doing the tasks! Hey, baby steps are victory dances in themselves!
Besides, the students themselves were great. They helped me feel comfortable (then again, we met and interviewed each other yesterday morning, so that helped).
We had a session on how to teach reading and listening skills. We had another session to get us prepared on researching and analyzing the target language (for our 1st assignment, which will be due on Wednesday). Sounds hard? It kinda is--if you don't have a good hold on grammar. Mine is ok.
So, basically, I have the following to do during the weekend:
- An exercise sheet that should take 5 minutes.
- Prepare for my unobserved lesson for Monday morning (since we are so few, then each of us will teach an unobserved class. I guess this is just so we can get more comfortable/confident in our respective classrooms. Hey, instead of teaching 8 lessons, we teach 10? The more practice, the better!).
- Start getting my lesson together for my 2nd teaching practice, which will be Tuesday morning.
I'm not planning to post any diary entries during the weekend. All I'd like to do is go to church tomorrow and explore a bit of Krakow. We'll see how they go.
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