So what did I learn this weekend?
- Perfect simple, perfect past continous and perfect past tenses
- Lesson planning LRWS;
- Speaking in short sentences;
- Classroom management (in particular, how to shush people if they kept talking, desk arrangements);
- Correcting students
Surely there is more to teaching than the above.
There is no way I can teach a classroom of students just because now I have this piece of paper. And yet, some schools are asking for just that - as the bare minimum. But I bet if I walked into a classroom, I would be coming out of there with egg on my face. (I did get some learned advice about TEFL and I can see an "I told you so!" coming around the corner.)
Anyway, the plan is to find another Nova-like stint (and luckily I am aware of such institutions in Hong Kong) with my TEFL piece of paper and hope for the best.
3 comments:
Congrats on surviving the insanity that is such courses. Don't worry, W, I still feel like a total fraud every time I walk into a classroom.
No biggie though, your students would be lucky to have you. Wait til word spreads and they start trying to transfer into your class!
Ah, you'll be fine, you were great at Nova, with the course and your experience there no problemo.
You two are very kind. I'm just glad some students from Nova are still in communicado with me particularly my TOEFL student who I swear was on the brink of slitting her wrist if she didn't get accepted at some US college.
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