Well this felt like a step back. We followed the same format as last week but it really felt like it didn’t work as well as the first time we did it. It’s a little frustrating to be honest. It would be nice for it to just be a linear progression, but of course nothing in life is really like that. Along with that, it’s not always clear why it didn’t work as well this week. Why did the students not respond the same, especially when last week they were responding quite well to this format? Who knows. Maybe the conversation topic, or because they were in a group all together and not split up this time? I think it might be that honestly. But of course, we don’t know until next week when we try again to figure out what is the outlier in this situation.
Next week we plan on having the same format. This week we did more error correction and my explanations were better! Woo-hoo for the win there right? I think my teaching has gotten better. I think this week was a step up in my teaching, but the general feel/mood of the class was off. I think that happens everywhere so I won’t get hung up on it, just let it go for this week. If it starts to develop into a pattern I know I need to look in detail what I’m doing to cause it. For now, we will just see.
It seems weird that we will be teaching on our own in just a couple of weeks, without any teachers checking over our work. It’ll especially be weird without having a partner teacher present. I was planning on just returning to school, and maybe doing some online courses until applying to South Korea, but I’m starting to get worried I’ll forget everything before I get there. Maybe in the springtime I should ask some of my teachers if I can come in for a couple of hours to remember what I need to do. Hopefully it’s like riding a bike haha. Anyways, I’m just worried I’ve gotten reliant on my sponsor teacher and partner teacher being with me the entire time that once I’m done it’s like getting pushed out of a tree. I guess we will see in a couple weeks how that feels.
