Practice School started on Monday. Practice school is a 3-week program where the EE trainees teach Moldovan students English. The Moldovan students volunteered, so it’s not 100% accurate to what a really classroom will be like since all of these students want to learn. But it’s good practice. And we teach from the textbooks that are used in all schools, so we start to get familiar with to how to use them.
Each day, we have language class for 2 hours in the morning. And then we teach 2 lessons back-to-back. I’m teaching to 6th grade the first half and 11th grade the second half. After our lessons, we plan with a resource teacher for 3 hours. Then I go home around 5 (remember, I have a 40 minute walk home) with about 5 hours of work to do to prepare for the 2 lessons.
It is proven to be a very busy week, leaving me with practically no time to myself. Who ever told me that being in the PC would involve a lot of free time was obviously not talking about EEs. I may not be able to write very much over the next 3 weeks because of how time consuming planning is. Or perhaps I’ll write more often than ever because when is there a better time to write in a blog than when you have 5 hours of work ahead of you at 6:00 at night?
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