You need to reflect and comment on your experiences at ANAÇEV in the form of progress reports. You are expected to write a progress report for each session that you participated in the voluntary work. In each progress report, you are expected to cover the following:
1. the duties /tasks you did on that particular day (in detail)
2. the incidents that you experienced and affected you in some way (in detail)
3. the activities that you were involved in on your day of participation that raised your level of awareness in terms of social and environmental issues. (You need to describe in what ways and how your level of awareness towards various issues have been raised)
Format: 2-3 pages (single-spaced, font no bigger than 11 puntos)
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It was the first time when I taught the students the English and it was really interesting to me. I understood that being a teacher very hard work and it needs to have very strong patient and have strong character to manage the class and students. When I first came to class there were three students (Mehmet, Cansu, and Aylin). We; Pınar and I, did not know what to teach at first because we were not familiar with the curriculum of their school. For that reason we decided to teach them general knowledge about English language. Firstly, we began to teach them “to be” verb as a “yardımcı fiil” and how it should be used. Then we taught them how “to be” change its place and formulate the question sentence and after how to answer to the given questions. For example:
ReplyDeleteI (Ben) am
You (Sen) are
He --->
She ---> is (O)
It --->
We (Biz) ---->
You (Siz) ----> are
They (Onlar) ---->
Then we taught them how “he” is different from “she”, drawing the picture of genders, and “he and she” are different form “it” explaining and showing them the material in the class and giving an examples from the nature like cat and dog. After we explained how two “you”s are different from each other, and this gave us a chance explain singulars and plurals in general; that is, singulars are taking articles “a/an” and plurals are taking “-s” at the end of the word. Then we asked them to memorize pronouns and “to be” verb together and then asked them again and again to understand whether or not they have learnt them. First of all we were not sure that they have learnt them because they were continually making the same mistake like “we is” not “we are”, but then into the class came two girls (Yağmur and Rümeysa). Then the situation changed because we began to teach two other girls and when we explaining three other students were jumping and wanted to give an answer to the questions. I really was happy that the information that we wanted to give to students were acquired and learnt. In addition, the one student did really not like the English language at all and after our lesson he really liked to learn the language and he said that he will most probably continue learning English and this gave me the energy and happiness that just teaching by heart can change the prejudice of one student toward an unknown language.
Then we asked students what they wanted to learn and they said that they want to learn professions. We did not know which professions are appropriate for their level of proficiency and gave them very simple names of professions; worker, cook, engineer, driver, teacher, student, doctor, and vet. And then asked them what they want to do when they finish the school; this conversation was like an interaction between students and teacher to have warm relationship and so that students continue to come to our lesson and give them a chance to feel that they are wanted and also give them chance to feel more confident in their answers. All of them were smiling and because they see that teacher want them really to learn something they did not want to offend us and were learning by heart and answering by heart. This was really enjoyable moments.
I had my first voluntary experience on the 19th of March with the small children in Anaçev, not a very nice beginning, though. I couldn’t feel as I am a volunteer, because of the unkind treatment. Yet, I hope, I can be helpful for the children. At least, I have an enjoyable time spending time with the children there.
ReplyDeleteMy duty was to help the teacher, and take care of the children. I played with them, committed in their reading and singing activities, play hours and helped them during the meals. I also helped them with their basic needs like drinking water, and washing hands. We played together, I drew each of them pictures. They enjoyed this very much. I think my basic duty was to show attention to them and be together with them in every activity they were involved in.
When I went there, for a short peiod of time, I observed the classroom environment and what the teacher is doing with the children, first of all. Firstly, the children didn’t know me, and I wasn’t sure whether I could pass time with children. However, we met and got on well with the children. I felt as if I knew these children for so long.
As the first thing in the morning, the children made their breakfast. Since they are so small (3 years old), of course, some of them need help. Some of them eat everything, some others eat nothing. I more helped the ones who do not eat anything, or cannot manage eating. We then went back to the class hand in hand. I helped them go up and down the stairs.
Afterwards, we had the story-listening, singing, playing and drawing activities together. Every children expected special attention. When I did something for instance, drew a picture for one child, the others wanted the same. When I showed attention, for instance hug a child, the others also wanted the same. By means of such experiences, I can learn more things about child pyschology. Some of them cried from time to time, and I tried to cheer them up and forgot why they were crying. It was sometimes difficult to control their misbehaviors. Some children were hurting others, so the teacher and I had to be careful with them.
In short, I am gaining some experiences about children’s behaviors as well as the possible resons for their behaviors. Although, I do not plan to teach young learners, this may be an interesting experience for me, and guide me in my future teaching prospects.
Spending time with those children, I gained consciousness about child care. I reallized how important it is to know their needs, and growing stages. I also developed an awareness about the importance of considering the differences among the children. They have speacial needs and characteristics, I think and these characteristics should be taken into consideration while teaching them. For example, one of the children was hyperactive. He never sat up, or gave attetion to listening to stories read by the teacher. He also hurt some of his friends. Another child was often crying and was not eating her meals. I think, such children should be given careful attention. I mean, the reasons for their way of behavior can be sought for. Their way of teaching can be adjusted in a way that considers their problems or special needs. Just saying, ‘eat your meal’, ‘you’re always crying’, or ‘sit up, stay at your place’ may not be enough to change those children’s behaviors. I gained consciousness about such issues related to child education.
On the first day of my experience in Çayyolu, the main thing that I did was observation. I examined everything in the kindergarten in detail. I tried to get an overall idea about what I can do to help the children and the teachers there. At the end of the day, I found out that I can do a lot of things for the children, but I can’t do anything for the teachers. I can and I should do a lot for the children because they are really in a poor and affectionless environment. Although a kindergarten should provide children with a warm, comfortable and friendly environment so that they can feel at home, in the kindergarten that we are working at, the children are in a miserable condition. I have a great number of reasons to claim this. For instance, in the first hour of my visit, I witnessed that one of the children was scorned by his teacher just because of his asking for his mother. I thought that it was not a proper behavior for a kindergarten teacher. A teacher who deals with children should be patient, kind and affectionate towards them. However, (as far as I observed) most of the teachers in the kindergarten were totally deprived of any affection or any good feeling towards the children. They treat the children as if they were poor, spoiled and useless human beings. I think, they forget the fact that their salaries are paid by the parents of those children whom they always humiliate and rebuke. For four hours, I saw many examples of bad treatment of the children there. The children were humiliated and scorned because of very trivial things such as not being successful in eating their meals or putting on their clothes. Such kinds of treatments sound me terrible because a four year old child cannot do all those things faultlessly like an adult. Therefore, the teachers should be helpful to them instead of getting angry. Since the teachers are not affectionate to the children at all, the children try to approach and ask for help from us. For instance when they are preparing for ballet session, instead of asking their teachers for help, they always asked me to help them while putting their ballet costumes. I think this is the clearest example to the bad treatment of the children.
ReplyDeleteTo sum up, I can say that I have a lot to do in that school so that I can show the teachers the correct ways of how to treat and show some affection to a child. The style of the teachers’ treating children increased my level of awareness about such a social problem as the bad treatment of the children. I think, it is urgent that somebody should do something for the children there and I think this is a social problem and I want to solve it in the best way I can do. When it comes to the tasks that I did, I don’t have much to say because mostly I observed them. Other than observation, I only did some trivial things such as helping children to put off/on their clothes, helping them to eat their meals etc.
My first teaching experience in Altyntag was very interesting and enjoyable for me. When I first went there I was a little bit nervous as it is my first time teaching but when I started to teach I saw that I was wrong students were so nice and enthusiastic about learning. We went there as three (me, Baygeldi and Ayaz) and taught 3 hours there. One hour for each. We taught them pronouns (I, you, she, he, it, we, you and they) explained them usage of these words. And we tried to produce basic sentence by using pronouns. As they have poor English they could not remember these words at once so we did a lot of repetition in order to make these words permanent. Then we did repeat after me in order to teach correct pronunciation. First they repeated all together and then they said it individually. Then we taught them most used English phrases like:
ReplyDeleteWhat is your name?
My name is Yagmur.
Where are you from?
I am from Ankara
How old are you?
I am 12 years old.
They knew these phrases a little bit but they did not know the meaning fully so we had to say the Turkish version of these phrases. I addition we wanted them to write all the things that they have learned in order to rehearse at home. Then in the following hour we taught them objects which we used in class very often. Like
door
Window
Book
Desk
Board
and some verbs like
open,
close,
give
in order to make some sentences. We know that these words were too much for one day but because of the little time we have to give these words. Students wrote all these words down on their notebooks. During the lesson we did a lot of repetition and we told them rehearse it at home and we promised a chocolate for them if they study hard. When we went there for the second week we did a good review about the first week. And gave them the promised chocolate it made a warm atmosphere among us and we started to get used to each other. And produced some new sentences related to the first week’s topics. Then we taught them numbers up to hundred. And make them count up to hundred we made a chain range in this. First students counted up to 10 and second up to 20 and third up to 30 it goes on like that. As we did in the first week we did a lot of repetition. In addition we tried to teach them birthdays and dates. Our students are very interested in our university life and asked us some questions. We tried to explain them in an effective way and suggested them to study hard. That is all about my first two week experience. I hope I would be beneficial for my students for the following weeks.
While I was going there for the first time, I was a bit anxious because I did not know where to get off from the bus. I asked the driver and every passenger but none of them knew where Anaçev was. Besides, my orienting skill is terrible. I spent all the time from Kızılay to Birlik District praying so that I can remember the way. Then, I remembered that it was near a health center and I became so happy when I saw the sign of the health center. I had to ask some people to find there but finally I achieved! Although I spent some time for finding the place, I was not late because I left from METU very early. When I arrived there, I introduced myself (It was weird because they have been calling me “Seda Öğretmen”) They told me that I was going to give tutorials to one lady, so I met my first student. She is a middle aged woman. She is working as a maid. She has two daughters. One of them was with her. She wants to learn reading and writing because she wants to help her children while they are doing their homework. She is a really good mother. She couldn’t go to school because they were living in a small village but she really wants her children to study and she is ready to do everything for that. She is illiterate but not ignorant! I didn’t know how to start so Nuran Hoca, the principle, gave me a book and that book helped me greatly. It has topics and exercises for students and it is guiding teacher about how to teach reading and writing. Therefore, I taught according to that book. I wrote the alphabet on the board that I taught the letters one by one. Sometimes, I likened the letters to some objects like eye-glasses and B, D and D böreği. It was fun. My student likes it. It was an efficient lesson, I hope all other lessons will be like that.
ReplyDeleteOn the first day I meeted my students for the first time. All of them were over fifty and they were very willing to learn. Actually some of them knew how to write and read but it was not enough so they want to improve.
ReplyDeleteWhen I start firstly it was difficult because their knowledge was very limited but later when I saw their progress it was a great fun for me. Firstly I and my friend formed groups of students according to their level of reading and writing; because some of them knew nothing about reading and writing on the other hand some of them had some idea about these skills.Then we started to teach. There were some books for them, I firstly showed them the letters then syllable and then I wanted them to read what I show. After reading activity I wanted them to write some letters then syllables.
While I teaching the letters I encountered some thing.That is; while I teaching the letters to one of the women, I saw that she had witten the letter "N" wrongly and I said to her:" You have written this letter in a wrong way." and she answered:"Does it make any difference?" In fact, at first it was funny for me she asked this question in a very innocent way.But later when I thought I have feeled pity for that woman; because she was almost sixty but she does not know readindg, writing and even letters, I feeled really sorry and I started to spend much more effort to teach them reading and writing.
The activities I involved in and the events I experienced really raised my awereness towards society. Forexample; there was a woman who wanted to learn how to read the numbers on the doors of the hospital rooms. I thought that it is a big deficiency not to know this and this makes her life very difficult. She always needs a person with herself. And I promised myself to teach them how to read and write.Actually I am also thinking to teach reading and writing to the people around me who does not know these skills.
The first day of my Anaçev experience was a bit tiring, and some kind of adventurous:) We went there with four friends from school. Although we knew the address, we had difficulty even in finding the right bus stop. After some time, we got off, but it was quite far away from the place where we should get off. That's why we should walk back to the right place approximately half an hour long:( It's really tiring.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, we went there. There was a warm atmosphere, I loved this place. The manager, Bilal bey, was kind to us, he welcomed us when we first went there. We met and he introduced us some procedures that we should take into account.
Then, we saw our students. We were teaching at the same class with Ezgi. The students were 6th and 8th grade primary school students. We were supposed to teach Turkish lessons. As it was the first day and we do not know our students' level, interests and needs, we decided to get to know each other firstly.
We introduced ourselves, and wanted the students to, and i thought that it was necessary the first time when you met with the prospective students of yours. First you should get to know them, and then you should teach something. For that reason, also, we wanted to know what they did in school so far, from the beginning of this school year. They shared with us what they learned. Then, we wanted to ask them how we should study throughout the process. We asked whether it would be based on SBS, the exam they will take at the end of semester, or on the lessons they were taking at school. Sixth graders preferred the latter, while the eigth preferred the former. Then, I took sixth graders and began to study with them.
As there was no sources, I thought that solving tests on their general knowledge would be good as a starter. There were only two students, so we solved questions interactionally. I thought it would also help me understand the students' level to some extent.
The thing that i especially liked was that they began to call me "öğretmenim" from the first day. It's some kind of weird as well, because i had always been a "student" till that day, but then i was a teacher for these students. It seems as if it created some kind of affection in me:) They were listening to me attentively and answered my questions. I liked them, they seemed enthusiastic about learning the things I told.
Although an exhausting, boring, hot and long, bus travel, and a long walk, it ended happily. That day, I felt that i would love my profession. Being a teacher in such a place would be a great axperience for me:)
Sülgün, Ayaz and I met in Sıhhıye in the morning to go to Altındağ and it was really far to Sıhhıye. After many difficulties, we went there. After some conversation with the director of the place, we entered to the class and students were ready to meet us. We introduced ourselves and we wanted them introduce themselves. There were one boy and six girls. Their names were Nihat, Dilara, Melika, Medine, Hazal, Yağmur, and Özge. Since the relationship is important between the teacher and students, we had some chatting with students to make them feel comfortable wtih us. We started to teach them pronouns (I, you, she, he, it, we, you and they) explained them usage of these words. And we tried to produce basic sentence by using pronouns. As they have poor English they could not remember these words at once so we did a lot of repetition in order to make these words permanent. Then we did repeat after me in order to teach correct pronunciation.We were three and each of us taught them one hour. Then, we taught them most used English phrases like:
ReplyDeleteWhat is your name?
My name is Ahmet.
Where are you from?
I am from İzmir.
How old are you?
I am 10 years old.
They knew these phrases a little bit but they did not know the meaning fully so we had to say the Turkish version of these phrases. It was a bit hard to teach them. We wanted them to write these expressions in order to study them at home. Then in the following hour we taught them objects which we used in class very often such as:
door, window, book, desk, and board.
After many repetitions of those expressions we thaught students, we ended the class.
In the second week, since we gained a bit experience, we were able to to explain better than we did in the first week. Since our aim is to to teach sudents appropriately, we thaught that it would be better to review topics we taught them in the previous week. We produced some new sentences related to the first week’s topics. Then we taught them numbers up to hundred. And make them count up to hundred we made a chain range in this. As we did in the first week we did a lot of repetition. Then we finished the day's lesson.
I was very excited for my first class, but my excitement diminished because of the exhausting transportatiton to there. We went to Doğantepe by using two vehicles. When we arrived there, we noticed we are far away from our destination and we(Me,Hüseyin,Ezgi and Büşra) tried to find ‘Altındağ Cumhuriyet Eğitim Evi’. At last, we called the manager of there and he found us. In the mean time, we observed life standards in Doğantepe. It was a different world. As far as I observed, life standards was very low. Most of the people seemed to be poor. That aspect of Doğantepe boosted us and we promised to do our best for the children there. At last, we arrived there and we met the manager. He was very warm to us. He tried to help us in order to prevent the problems we could face.
ReplyDeleteI and Hüseyin were responsible for teaching ‘social sciences’ and the manager showed our class. Both of us would use the same class. At first, it seemed a bit problematic to me, but there was no solution to that problem. Then, we waited for our students. The manager told us there were 5 students for ‘social sciences’ class. At last, they came to the class. As manager told, there were five students. Three of them were 8th grade students and two of them were 7th grade students. They introduced themselves to us and we introduced ourselves to them. Their names were Fatma, Zeynep, Yakup(8th grade) and Fatmanur, Zehranur(7th grade). Fatmanur and Zehranur were twins. Then, we held a conversation with them about what we can do throughout the semester. They were shy at first and they were hesitating to speak. We decided to prepare them to ‘SBS’, so we examined their books and tried to learn topics to teach. Then, we found a mutual topic for both 7th grade and 8th grade to give lecture. The topic was “Renaissance, Reform and Industrial Revolution”. We tried to give a lecture about that subject. To be honest, it was difficult to give a lecture for two teachers at the same time. They listened to us and answered our questions. We tried to find some exercises on that topic in their books and we solved some questions together. We gave lecture, they answered our questions and solved some questions and our 3 hours passed in that way.
During the lesson, we observed the students and tried to analyze their characteristics. We found that Yakup was a naughty and lazy student. We guessed that he would cause some problems at the class during the next classes. Fatma was very clever girl and hardworking. She answered all of our questions:) Zeynep was the most talkative student. She was an energetic student, she was also a clever student. The twins were so quiet students. We tried to encourage them to speak. However, they seemed to be hardworking students.
All in all, I liked my first class and I am looking forward to our next class, but Yakup is disturbing me:)
It was the first day of our Community Service Course experience and I was a bit exited about that. Altough I taught many learners among my relatives and friends English before, it was a new case for me to teach in the concept of being a teacher. Yes, I was a teacher now. I had a class, students, an organisation(school). The organization in that I would teach was Anaçev and it was in Altındağ. If it is thought that we were going there from Çankaya, METU, it was really a long journey there.
ReplyDeleteFirstly, we needed to go to Kızılay by bus or dolmus, after that we have to walk until the Sıhhıye Bridge. And, we got on a bus going to Altındağ, after for a long time we started to get closer to Altındağ. The district is really different from Kızılay, Çankaya, Bahçelievler, etc. The roads, houses, people are different; scene and atmosphere are different. And there I thought that I really made a good decision for coming here. They needed help, education, love, affection, a friend’s hand. And I thought that I would be able to give that hand to them.
After a great struggle to find the Anaçev building, we were in the Anaçev. The manager, Bilal Dibek was a very kind man and helped us find Anaçev. He was fatherly, helpful and open to take the service from us. After a little conversation, he showed our classroom to us, me and my friend Emrullah. The classroom was originally a library. But it was convenient for us to be able to teach.
After a while, our students came to the classroom. They were eager to learn; we could see that in their eyes. They were 5 students; 2 of them were twins and 7th grade, 3 of them were 8th grade students. Twins’ names were Zehranur and Fatmanur, the others were Fatma, Yakup and Zeynep. We introduced ourselves to them and wanted them to introduce themselves to us and each other. It was a warm atmosphere. I hope they liked us.
The twins were shy and silent; they were not speaking so much. But, they were hardworking. Yakup was a little bit problematic, he was a talkative child and keen on policy. It was difficult to manage him at first; but afterwards we could manage him. And, we could make him interested in the course. Zeynep was a clever student; but she was a talkative, also. But she was knowledgeable about the course.
After all these, we wanted to learn what they learned at their Social Sciences Courses. They told us one by one. There were two groups in the class. They were dealing with different subjects. In the end, my friend and I decided to teach a common topic that all they know. We chose the subject “Renaissance, Reform, Enligtenment, Indusrial Revolution”. Emrullah started to talk about the subjects “Renaissance and Reform”; he used the board, draw pictures or maps to visualize the course. I added some points that he didn’t mention. After that, I started to talk about the subjects “Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution” I used the board as well, I draw maps and diagrams. Emrullah added some parts that I didn’t mention. After we taught the subjects, we wanted them to ask their questions about the subject and answering the questions, we finished our lesson. It was a good, helpful lesson for both us and them.
After saying each other “Good bye”, we left Anaçev and started our long journey to METU.
On 26th May, the first day I went to Anaçev, firstly I talked to the principle, Fatma Dingil. And I asked what am I supposed to do because I was expected to teach “Okuma Yazma Geliştirme.” She said the women that will come had taken read-write course last semester and they need to improve their reading and writing skills. Then she gave me some books that I would need. I waited for an hour and nobody showed up. Then Meryem Teyze came. She said she had things to do and she had to go in half an hour. We sat and I wanted her to write her name and surname. She had no problem with that. After that we worked on other words. She had problem with “g-ğ, u-ü, o-ö” distinction. After 15 minutes of writing study I gave her one of the books that principle gave me. She tried to read it. She was a little bit slow. After 15 minutes of reading she said that she had things to do and she went. Then I told all these issues to Fatma Dingil and she said she would punish them by making them come to an earlier course. After that she told me that she would find 4th and 5th grade students and I could teach them English.
ReplyDeleteNext week I went there again and met with my new students. I introduced myself and then acquainted with them one by one. Since they are new in English I thought that it would be better if I started with the alphabet. I wrote all the letters on the board and want them to write the letters on their note books. Then I read all the alphabet and then wanted them to repeat after me. We repeated the alphabet for three times. Then I pointed a letter and wanted them to say which letter it is. After that I wrote up to 20 both with numbers and letters like:
0Zero 11Eleven
1One 12Twelve
2Two 13Thirteen
3Three 14Fourteen
4Four 15Fifteen
5Five 16Sixteen
6Six 17Seventeen
7Seven 18Eighteen
8Eight 19Nineteen
9Nine 20Twenty
10Ten
Again I wanted them to write all the things on the board. Then I read the numbers and wanted them to repeat after me. After working on number up to 20 I wrote 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 and 100. Then I told them while writing numbers like 36, 48, 53, 67 and so on they just need to write 30, 40, 50, 60 and then the other numbers 6, 8, 3, 7 side by side. I said that it is just like Turkish. We worked on numbers up to 100. I wrote some numbers and wanted them write them with letters.
In the last 5 minutes of our course I told my students to write the numbers up to 100 at their home and bring their homework next week. It was a beautiful day for me and it was a new experience.
When I learned that I was going to teach reading and writing to adults, I was surprised because I didn’t know how to teach and how to behave to adults. In fact I was a bit disappointed because I expected my students to be young learners. However I thought teaching reading and writing wouldn’t be so hard.
ReplyDeleteFor the first week the only problem for me was transportation, I didn’t know where to go, when to get off from the bus but fortunately a woman in the helped me. I went to Anaçev and met with the people working there. I learned that I had only one student. I entered the class and met with my student, she was an adult learner and she was a Turkmen. She couldn’t speak Turkish very well. First day we started the alphabet, I wrote the letters on the board and she wrote them to her notebook. We studied on them, she repeated after me and we worked on some syllables.
When I went there for the second time the same student was waiting for me. We stated our lesson with revising what we did in the previous week. Then, a woman knocked the door and she said she was also a student trying to learn reading and writing. I wanted to learn his level and she was better than my other student, she didn’t have any difficulty in reading the letters.
During the lesson I wrote syllables on the board they read and wrote them to their notebooks.
For example I wrote ‘ba, be, bı, bi, bo, bö, bu, bü etc’ I tried to teach them how to read when a vowel and a consonant come together. After doing some exercise on syllables I wrote some words on the board and we studied them.
As homework I told them to write the things again on their notebooks and read the words again at home.
Ahmet ÖZKAN
After taking two buses, I and birsen arrives at our destination. We went to Çukurca Eğitim Evi to teach people how to read and write. Firstly, we met with our students. They all were women who were over fifty and they were very willing to learn. There were just three students; actually I was a bit surprised. Because, I was expecting more than them. In addition to this, some of them knew how to write and read but it was not enough so they want to improve, in that, this used to make our work a bit easier.
ReplyDeleteFirstly, I start with letters. However, I was in the wrong way, because they had learnt them already. Then, I tried to teach vowels and consonants. Of course, it was very challenging for them, and then my friend suggested me to simplify my teaching. She said they didn’t have to learn vowels and consonants, just teach them reading and writing and she was right. After that, we followed a book prepared for adults learning reading and writing. Then, our teaching has gained a system and each week, we teach some parts of the book. After reading enough, my student wanted to write. Then, I said some sentences and she tried to write them, actually, there was no clear problem with her reading but her writing was in need of improvement. She was writing as she read, for example; “ısmayıl” instead of “ismail”. And she had some problems with letters which have full stops. She was writing “I” instead of all “I s” and “İ s”. After finishing our lesson, I wanted her to write some sentences and read a passage. However, she said to me that “I’m diabetic and when I work too much, I will have a headache. Also, I have some home works from my other course, they were going to learn Arabic at the same, don’t give me homework so much.” Then I gave up and just wanted to write some sentences as she wanted. Then, we left the vakıf.
This first meeting gave me the feeling that the society needs us and as a member of the society, I should do my job.
At first, I thought I could teach only to young learners, because I felt that I might not know how to behave to elder people, however my students were all above their 50s and in the first class we tried to understand our expectations from the lessons that would take place during the semester. all of my students were really enthusiastic about the classes, which also made me believe that I was really doing something good for the community, which is the aim of the course.
ReplyDeleteIn the first class I also realized that there were not enough books for my students to read different books for each session, therefore I decided to find more sources from the internet and bring to the class for the coming sessions. I also asked what they would like to read, therefore I would know what I was looking.
Finally, apart from all these beautiful experiences, I had a real problem while I was going to Yıldız Eğitim Evi. I took the wrong olmuş, I went to yıldız, however, the place I took off was too away from Yılız Eğitim Evi, and I spent more than half an hour to find the place, and I was lucky, because I did not arrive late in spite of the problems.
I think the whole semester will be very fruitful for both me and my stuents.