Teaching practise…

I my eyes, many of us thanks to the teaching practice could face the reality, it was not the time to ‘practice our skills’ but the time to find the answer for by far crucial question. Is it a profession that I want enter?

When sitting at the back of the classroom and watching a teacher everything seems to be so easy. Nevertheless, my teaching practice made me realise it is not a piece of cake. Firstly, the fact that discouraged me the most was time-consuming preparations for each lesson; as a student of The Teaching Training College with the head full of this methodological stuff I did my best to prepare a perfect lesson. I spent the whole evening preparing one lesson, what included thinking of the subject, looking for eye-catching visual aids, printing and sticking them to the coloured pieces of papers, preparing interesting exercises ect. Then, the lesson comes! Actually, I conducted the same lesson in 2 classes, which gave me an insight into the reality. No matter how well prepared you may be almost everything depends on the class where the lesson takes place. The first lesson proved to be a ‘success’, for students were involved, seemed to enjoy the lesson and did not cause major discipline problems; When the second one was a challenge. Disruptive and wayward behaviour, nasty comments and total lack of cooperation those were obstacles that I had to overcome. After the lesson I was wondering what I did wrong, if is was my fault or no. It was not a good experience, nonetheless, those bad ones made us stronger! ;)

Still I do not know if I want to become a teacher. I have mixed feelings. I am aware of the fact that I sacrificed three years of my life for studying English so it would be a shame not to take advantage of it… we’ ll see…