Week Five

26/04/2010

Today I continued to mark exercise books. I am getting a little frustrated because I am spending a lot of time in the office and not much in the classroom. I would like more chances to improve on my leadership skills because I don't feel like I've improved very much in this area yet. Also my Japanese hasn't improved but I have noticed that I am finding the classes incredibly easy (obviously). The kids have actually been saying my Japanese is better than the teacher's.... I noticed they don't really show much respect towards her =(

30/04/08

I felt like today was a really productive and satisfactory day.

Last week I created a work sheet for the Year 10 students where I asked them questions about Japan (if they had gone on the exchange) or their holiday. Today I gave them the worksheet and gave them some time to work on the answers. A few of the kids were very enthusiastic and asked me for help in creating complex sentences so I got to work on my leadership skills taking control of the class. This was good because thus far Amara hasn't given me much opportunity to do this before. After they wrote their answers I then recorded them in an interview style. I was more confident in conducting this than before but that may have been because I was able to speak from behind the camera.
Overall, this was a really successful class and I'm proud that I was able to take control of the lesson by myself.