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"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, maybe because it was an activity in which I included technological tools. 
      What I really found rewarding about that experience is that it let me to know if I felt comfortable with the idea of being teacher and also to realize what were my strengths and weaknesses during the lesson. 
  • During my teaching practice in second year, students told me "profe" all the time. It was the first time I was named like this and at the beginning, I felt weird but then I started to be comfortable with that. Over time, I took that nickname as part of me.
  • When I was doing the hall-monitor practice, I faced some problems related to my confidence as an authoritarian person for the students. I used to see myself as a secondary student yet and I needed to make a different between them and my new role. I remember that the first time I had to enter a classroom, I stayed in the hall for 10 minutes trying not to be shy and to introduce myself in the courses. After some days, I developed my self-confidence and I could talk to them in as if I were a real hall-monitor. 
 Those are my first experiences in the school that I will always remember. Through them, I can realize that it will take me some time to leave my student's way to think and become a teacher in all respects. 

Hope you like it! 

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  1. Unknown27 de mayo de 2017, 17:57

    I feel exactly like you every time I have to enter to a new class. They are all watching you as if you would do something magic when the true is that not even you know what is going to happen hahaha However, this year I had a different experience, I was stand in front of the class in order to present myself and a student said "foo what are we going to do now??" It was like ok, you shouldn´t show you so enthusiastic as if I were to teach you how to increase your money either so bored before the class start!!

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  2. Carola11 de junio de 2017, 7:45

    I loved your post! It took me back to my very first experience in front of students. I was so anxious... We were three student teachers and we had to plan a lesson together. We'd decided to use balloons with words inside. Students had to burst the balloon and use the word inside for something. I don't remember the details but I can say it was very risky for a first class. Anyway, we survived. You both mention the word magic when you talk about students' expectations... I think that there should always be some magic in class :)

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