English Teaching Course - Day 4

Was very nervous about teaching today - my 1st proper lesson!
It went fairly well, though I struggled with trying to get the students to speak up in the class.

One of the activities was a class survey & the students also had to come up with 2 other questions with a Yes/No answer. They were to practise using short answers + add some info like "Yes, I did. It was great / I enjoyed it" etc.

I went around monitoring while the students were writing down their qns, & I came across this boy who wrote "Do you believe in the God?" as his qn! I corrected his grammar - "Do you believe in God?", but it definitely made me take notice of him more.

After that, I asked the students to go around the class asking each other the qns they had - and I happened to be monitoring this boy when he asked a girl "Do you believe in God?"
Her reply was, "Yes, I do. I think... he's very close to us."

???!!!!

Amazing stuff. Can't wait to have a chat with them about it tomorrow!

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Also observed an experienced teacher teach a class of Elementary students. Whoa, he was really good. So much energy, very good rapport with the students - he was almost a part of them - joking, laughing, making fun of them. You could tell that the students really liked him too.

Tips to take home: Make it really fun for the students & they'll forget that they're in a lesson. They'll only remember that they really enjoyed themselves!