Tuesday, March 18, 2008
/ 9:20 PM
My first lesson. The girls were pretty enthusiastic. One question after another. Towards the end of the bombing session, I was perspiring. Lol. Luckily I managed to answer their questions. Hope the revision helped.
Luckily there was only one visitor. My friend had four. I would have fainted if four came into my class at the same time. Pressurizing. The thing about teaching smart students is that, they know the visitors are here to observe the teacher. In a neighbourhood school, they would probably think the visitors are here to observe them, and so, they'll try to behave.
From Week 3 onwards, I'll be having really frequent classroom observations. At least twice each week. Luckily my CTs are guys. Guys tend to pay less attention to discipline issues. For today, one student came in late without greeting me, and this resulted in two crosses. Great damage. And the feedback for today was that, I had been too fast. I think my CT would probably think I crawled like a snail. Different teachers, different expectations. Well well.
Found some of my students' blogs. One was really entertaining. Now, I've evidence of them drawing cartoons at the back of the class. Haha. I think I did something similar when I was a student. Retribution. Well well, though I did weird things once in a while, I had been a good student ok. :)
ok time to sleep. Had to invigilate some classes tomorrow. I hope my students did well for their math test tomorrow. :)
Luckily there was only one visitor. My friend had four. I would have fainted if four came into my class at the same time. Pressurizing. The thing about teaching smart students is that, they know the visitors are here to observe the teacher. In a neighbourhood school, they would probably think the visitors are here to observe them, and so, they'll try to behave.
From Week 3 onwards, I'll be having really frequent classroom observations. At least twice each week. Luckily my CTs are guys. Guys tend to pay less attention to discipline issues. For today, one student came in late without greeting me, and this resulted in two crosses. Great damage. And the feedback for today was that, I had been too fast. I think my CT would probably think I crawled like a snail. Different teachers, different expectations. Well well.
Found some of my students' blogs. One was really entertaining. Now, I've evidence of them drawing cartoons at the back of the class. Haha. I think I did something similar when I was a student. Retribution. Well well, though I did weird things once in a while, I had been a good student ok. :)
ok time to sleep. Had to invigilate some classes tomorrow. I hope my students did well for their math test tomorrow. :)
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