This semester in Cumhuriyet Halk Evi I have experienced many beneficial moments with my friend and students. I’ve never thought that I would be excited at the first meeting with my very young students. It wasn’t the first time that I’d been in a classroom as a teacher. During my School Experience course last semester I’ve observed and experienced many things in a classroom environment. However this time things were different. I was the only one who was in charge in the lesson. I was with my friend Zöhre, but I’m sure that she felt in that way, too. Of course we helped each other generally, but when you start teaching, you are the only one in the students’ eyes. We were teaching in sequence, thus when I was speaking the students were listening to me; when my friend was speaking they were listening to her. That was the real excitement! My students were very young. Most of them were 4th grade students. Just two of them were older, 5th grade students. The thing that I can certainly tell about them is their desire for learning English. When I asked them whether they loved English, most of them said yes. Yet, due to their age they know a little. I spoke with one of my students’ mother and she said that her son was very clever but he didn’t like English. She asked me to make her son love English. After that moment I figured out the significance of accomplishing this job. It was not a university course for me anymore. Parents were aware of the importance of learning English and sent their children to Cumhuriyet Halk Evi by aiming their education to be better. With that responsibility I understood that it was very different from teaching in a real school for my Practice Teaching course. In our first lesson I couldn’t understand how the time passed. After one hour lecturing I said ‘’let’s give a break!’’ and all students objected. I’m also a student and I’ve never objected to a teacher who wanted to give a break. I think this is related to their age and desire for learning. It made me happy to be a teacher who was listened with pleasure. I taught personal pronouns and ‘to be’ verb in the first lesson. We did really our best with games and enjoyable techniques to help them understand better. Being respected and loved by the students made me extremely happy. We had no curriculum or course pack, so we went on lessons with their desires during ten weeks. New students started to join us during ten weeks. We were going slowly and making lots of practices not to leave any incoherent point. We taught pronouns, there is/are, have/has got, saying time with day month and year, some prepositions, and new vocabulary related to their wishes. After a couple of weeks I saw them understanding the topics very fast. Except for two students every one of them could achieve the tasks we gave. The student whose mother I spoke with got 95 points from two examinations in his school. I asked him how he accomplished that and he said ‘’just thanks to you.’’ Things were going so well that I could feel myself as an experienced teacher. Even if I’m not planning to become a teacher in the future, I could sense the brilliant emotion in being a teacher. Thanks to this course I could find a chance to feel useful for people who needed help. Thus that has been a great experience for me that I will never forget throughout my life.
This semester in Cumhuriyet Halk Evi I have experienced many beneficial moments with my friend and students. I’ve never thought that I would be excited at the first meeting with my very young students. It wasn’t the first time that I’d been in a classroom as a teacher. During my School Experience course last semester I’ve observed and experienced many things in a classroom environment. However this time things were different. I was the only one who was in charge in the lesson. I was with my friend Zöhre, but I’m sure that she felt in that way, too. Of course we helped each other generally, but when you start teaching, you are the only one in the students’ eyes. We were teaching in sequence, thus when I was speaking the students were listening to me; when my friend was speaking they were listening to her. That was the real excitement!
ReplyDeleteMy students were very young. Most of them were 4th grade students. Just two of them were older, 5th grade students. The thing that I can certainly tell about them is their desire for learning English. When I asked them whether they loved English, most of them said yes. Yet, due to their age they know a little. I spoke with one of my students’ mother and she said that her son was very clever but he didn’t like English. She asked me to make her son love English. After that moment I figured out the significance of accomplishing this job. It was not a university course for me anymore. Parents were aware of the importance of learning English and sent their children to Cumhuriyet Halk Evi by aiming their education to be better. With that responsibility I understood that it was very different from teaching in a real school for my Practice Teaching course.
In our first lesson I couldn’t understand how the time passed. After one hour lecturing I said ‘’let’s give a break!’’ and all students objected. I’m also a student and I’ve never objected to a teacher who wanted to give a break. I think this is related to their age and desire for learning. It made me happy to be a teacher who was listened with pleasure. I taught personal pronouns and ‘to be’ verb in the first lesson. We did really our best with games and enjoyable techniques to help them understand better. Being respected and loved by the students made me extremely happy. We had no curriculum or course pack, so we went on lessons with their desires during ten weeks.
New students started to join us during ten weeks. We were going slowly and making lots of practices not to leave any incoherent point. We taught pronouns, there is/are, have/has got, saying time with day month and year, some prepositions, and new vocabulary related to their wishes.
After a couple of weeks I saw them understanding the topics very fast. Except for two students every one of them could achieve the tasks we gave. The student whose mother I spoke with got 95 points from two examinations in his school. I asked him how he accomplished that and he said ‘’just thanks to you.’’ Things were going so well that I could feel myself as an experienced teacher. Even if I’m not planning to become a teacher in the future, I could sense the brilliant emotion in being a teacher. Thanks to this course I could find a chance to feel useful for people who needed help. Thus that has been a great experience for me that I will never forget throughout my life.