Learning to Teach

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward"  No matter how much you were studying previously, when you are in front of a huge group of students which is looking at you, you forget everything you have read for a moment. Since I started the Training Course, I have had very few experiences that left a mark upon me in a meaningful way. Those experiences helped me to feel confident and discover myself as a teacher. I want to share some of them:  It was my first time I took the role of the teacher of a lesson. It was just an activity but it lasted approximately forty minutes. I always remember I was so nervous that my body was shaken and I sounded like I was about to break into tears soon. Students looked at me as if I was going to do a magic trick, and listened to me very carefully. I explained what it was about and luckily they engaged so fast. We worked the whole period and they seemed to be interested in what I had presented,...

"The forever student is the best teacher", a phrase that I usually hear. But what does it mean? My name is Constanza and I am a studying to be an English Teacher. To be honest, I took this course because of my desire to improve in English, and not because of the teaching part. However, I have been discovering new ways of seeing the education world since I began two years ago.  "Overwhelmed" is the perfect adjective to describe a person who is about to become a teacher, maybe because of the huge piles of didactic and pedagogical materials to read in order to apply them later on in whatever your tutor asks you to do. Practical works, exams, practice and more practice.  Sometimes, you do not like what you are "trying" to understand in that piece of paper and you sometimes think to give up doing it. Sometimes you feel that you can not learn all of those concepts and remember them when you are in front of thirty pairs of eyes looking at you. You complain a...