Megan says Hola!: Sigh of Relief

Only good news to report here! (Sorry I have been lagging in my updates our internet has been strange/ slow/ cutting in and out the last few days). My first week of teaching has been just excellent, the students are really great (they are definitely going to keep me on my toes though) and I am really looking forward to all the fun things I am going to be able to do with them!

I teach fifth through ninth grade speaking classes and teach a total of 13 classes of kids. So far I have met 9 of the groups of students that I will be teaching and only one has given me real problems. The students are definitely very loud and you have to utilize crowd control tactics at all times to maintain order in the classroom but many of them are eager to learn and practice English so that is just great.

After all of the worry and confusion of training and the lead up to teaching, it felt so refreshing to be back in front of a class and to remember how much I love teaching. I am very excited to have my own class and to be in charge of their curriculum and testing.

My aunt Laura is a professor of education at the University of Winnipeg and she suggested to me that I bring in a camera for the first few days of classes and take a picture of each student with their name so that I am able to study their names at home. I took her advice and have been studying my students faces and names. I teach over 250 students and without this trick I know it would be next to impossible to get all the names down in the reasonable amount of time.

Additional good news; the other teachers and I have been going to the park together to run on the track for the last 3 nights and I signed up for my first Spanish class on Tuesday; look at me being all grown up and responsible. I will report more about my first week later and I promise to include of me in my less than appealing uniform. But for now I will leave you with a few pictures of my students!