I
forgot to mention it last night, but I taught my first two classes
yesterday. The first was a Glide Intermediate (GI, mid-high level
elementary) Speaking class that I'd observed on Tuesday and gotten along
with well, so it was a good first class. The second was a Mountain
Intermediate (MI, mid level middle school) Speaking/Writing class, which
was a bit more difficult. I hadn't met the students
before, and I'd been warned that they might be very quiet, but I
managed to get them to talk a fair amount without too much awkward
silence. Another small challenge was that, as a speaking and writing
class with two books, it was up to me to decide how much time to spend
on each book.
I was, unsurprisingly, really nervous before both
classes (a combination of performance anxiety and the difficulty of
meeting new people), but the classes went better than I expected, and a
lot better than my first classes at AEON and Baron's. I'll be teaching
two more today before jumping into the full five classes on Monday, and
hopefully they'll also be good!
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