TEACHING PRACTICE

I generally came to KJO because as far as I remember I have always wanted to be an English teacher. And to some extent this does not change but I also think about different jobs. Of course connected with English.
Hmm, my teaching practice - I conducted my first lesson with Junior High School students, it was in September. I was, of course, extremely scared because I did not know them well and my task was to introduce Present Perfect to them. I wanted to have a lesson connected mostly with reading and speaking, not with a quite difficult grammar point but I had no choice. What is important, students were very friendly, they did not laugh at a new frightened teacher. :)But after that lesson the stress disappeared and I were not nervous with remaining lessons. Now I am confident in my role as a teacher and it is a real pleasure for me (but on the condition that you have a nice class to teach):) A friendly class with positive attitude is extremely important because I taught a class (Junior High School) which consisted of 14 boys and 4 girls and it was impossible to do any kind of speaking with them. They did not cause any discipline problems, they just sat quietly and looked at me. When I asked them to describe a picture in pairs they were silent and stared at me without doing the task. After the lesson the teacher told me that I should not worry because this class always behaves like that. She resigned from pair or group speaking because they said nothing during it. Later, I did not want to have more lessons with them because they were so 'cold' and they discouraged me for a while from being a teacher.