hi, friends
Last week, I had my first teaching thanks to our nice and kind teacher. she gave me the chance for a full lesson and this was my first full-lesson instruction. so, at first I was excited and half- reluctant to take the responsibility of teaching a very new topic to very young learners. I was very conscious if they don't understand anything and how to deal with (many) student errors. however, once I was on the "stage", I forgot about all my worries and decided to do my best for them. here, I remembered the teachers style and, in a way, automatically imitated her. this was of course due to the observation in class. so I would like to state that this real class observation, namely "school experience"really works and I believe we will benefit from it very much in our profession for the first years. We all know this is the objective of the course, however, with this experience I was convinced with its reality. what do you think?
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You are right Ersin, we will benefit from these school experience courses in the following years very much. Experience is really important. I will teach a full hour lesson tomorrow, too and I will try my best and behave like my mentor teacher. They are really good, I mean the teachers at METU College. So we are lucky:)
Ersin, I agree with you, she is so nice and kind. I have realized that we are learning more than we see from her when I began to teach English at a course. I am behaving and talking just like her. She affects us a lot in terms of teaching, of course on the positive part.
I really agree with you Ersin. These observation hours will be the helpers in our first years in teaching profession. Our mentor teachers are really good at teaching in class- you know there appear many other issues to be dealth with- there is one thing to do on part of us and this is to observe our mentor teachers carefully and benefit from them as much as possible.
Ersin,
The word you've chosen, I mean, "imitation" has immediately attracted my attention. I think you can guess what i am trying to get at. It sounds weird, for you know, it's not one of the objectives of the course. We can consider "observation" as an initial stage of becoming a reflective teacher, i mean, knowing and questioning why you are doing what you are doing as a teacher - an initial stage of finding one's own way. But of course, imitation is inevitable especially when I think that the teacher you imitate is the "real" teacher who is responsible for the class. You may think that students have already loved or used to that way of treatment, so imitating the teacher of the class may make you feel secure.
Now, imagine yourself in front of a classroom where there is no one but you... Consider all the diffent or contradictory methods, teacher roles you have discussed in method courses so far! Imagine how you feel, how you decide what to do then...
You'll try and see...You'll make mistakes or have difficulty in dealing with this or that. But as long as you keep observing your students, parents, managers or even more importantly yourself, your own teaching, you will succeed... I believe in this :)
hocam, you are right to remind me that "imitation" is something out of teaching for a teacher.however, the point I would like to state was that before my first teaching, I had thougt of the school experience as, somehow,a burden taking a student of fourth class many hours a week.however,after then,I realized it is useful in such away that you, at least,remember your teacher's reaction to certain issues that you also encounter in real atmospehere and you act the similar way.
Ersin,
I agree with you on this. It's your training. Imagine a football player. He cannot be successful if he doesn't attend his training or exercises. You should observe and reflect on your own way of teaching to achieve your potential...And it will never end, I guess. I mean, throughout your career you keep learning, being both a teacher and a learner.
Lifelong learning goes on...
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