Well, I am now done with my first official first week of teaching at MSU. Last week we continued with more English assesments, so I didn't get my full class time in. Anyway, I would have to say that everything went well, but I felt rushed on Thursday and I don't feel that I presented our subject matter as well as I should have. I think I spent too much time on essay basics, even though we didn't even get to finish what we had initially started in class and because of that I didn't have time on Thursday to get through the material I needed to for the homework assignment. Thankfully it's just a rough draft of an essay that's due for Tuesday so we will go through a "peer review" process and I should have an opportunity to explain the structure again to the class.
So far I don't think I can apply much directly from the reading, because I'm just teaching writing, but I do try to give the students a sense of ownership of their learning by working together on some activities and helping each other with editing. We also did an activity that required the students to move around and find different sentences to make up a paragraph. It was kind of a writing exercise without writing - just focused on structure. I believe that exercise would probably fall under TPR in a way.
I need to get some sleep so I can get up tomorrow and work on more homework.
Talk to you all later!
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Hola campanero!!!!
Este es un buen ano a ser estudiante, si?! Estoy felize a compartir clase contigo otra vez.
Saludos a sus ninos y a la senora Clipperton.
nos vemos!
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