Saturday, March 1, 2014

First Classes at Avalon

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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