Day 5

Friday 19 Oct 07

Last day of Week 1 ~ Excited! But very nervous and stressed. About my lesson plans and how I will do in class and worry about behaviour management. I could not sleep well the previous night as i am stressed and worried about how well the lessons will go.

But surprisingly, my day went well without much of a glitch. I was very relieved after my double lesson with year 9s.

Maybe my first week at teaching was such a nerve wrecking experience, as I really have to find my feet at Day 1 and that my mentors will be assessing me throughout the 5 weeks. Everything was completely new to me.... and I always have the stress and nervousness and worries to be able to settle in asap.

I went to observe the Year 9 ESL class as well today. They still haven't started a new unit of work this term, as they have not completed their assignment from last term. I was observing my student teacher's class and so that meant she could not teach them for the first week. They were still completing their assignment from last term.

The environment in the ESL class was very much self student directed. it is not because the students are independent but because the teacher seems reluctant to help the students. As in, she gives the students assgn and work and just let them get on with it. It is difficult to make a critique of the teacher's philosophy from just one observation in her class, she seems she has given up hopes on the students and really, there is no rapport in the class btw the students and the teacher and the teacher doesn't want to make rapport with them. She is just DOING her job and that is just to deliver information to the students. Nothing else. I find that abit cold; the way she delivers her teaching content. Her behaviour management are very strict as well.