This post is going to be short and
sweet. Tech week was theoretically our
mini ‘student-teaching’ experience in La Chorrera. I know all of you who actually did student
teaching will laugh at the fact that mine lasted only really 5 days, only 2 of
which was class actually in session.
The first couple days (really only the
first day for me because my teacher wasn’t there on Friday) we spent getting to
know our cooperating teacher and helping him/her set up the classroom and plan
lessons for the first couple days. Most
of them were finishing up or had just finished their yearlong plan. My teacher said he had it all pretty much together,
so we just talked about MEDUCA (the Ministry of Education), teaching, and
ourselves for a slightly awkward 2 hours where neither of us really knew what
exactly we were actually supposed to be doing…
Monday (the first day of school) was the
ActoCivico which is where they have announcements and sing the national
anthem. I can only hope that one day I
will know the words. If you care to look
it up, it’s rather lengthy, especially compared to ours. Then the day was spent in homeroom, so I just
chatted with some of the students and then went to our ‘debriefing’ meeting at
the library (after stopping at the ice cream shop on the way and teaching them
how to make a milkshake…) and then went home.
Tuesday, I showed up ready to introduce myself in English and help with
pronunciation because that is what my teacher suggested. However, 10 minutes into the class he turns
to me and asks if I want to teach the rest of the class, so I did. Good thing I have a fair amount of experience
making things up as I go. Then we had
our debriefing and then tech week was over.
That is all.
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