CELTA Day one!!
Well i know im done now but i am putting in my experience from day one onwards because that is something i really needed before i started this course and i couldnt find it anywhere till i luckily stumbled upon one persons account and it helped tremendously!! So here goes!!
Day 1
11 of us walk into the room and sit down, all not sure what to expect and trying our best to not show nervousness and to be relaxed.
The tutors walk in and say hello - 2 friendly looking people!!
We are introduced to them both and then we introduce ourselves to the class while seated. The tutors are Bernard Mcguigan and Carla Wood.
We all get introduced and then we get into some fun getting to know each other activities - known as warmers(as we later found out!!)
We go through a few fun activities of asking each other questions and writing answers and really getting the basics of each person and their lives and the reasons why they are doing CELTA.
Then we write up a story about one person we have picked from hat, we use information we have picked up from each other about that person. Then the stories go up on the wall and we walk around reading each persons profile - very interesting and fun!!
We then go off to lunch and think “That wasn’t so bad after all”
Back in classroom in afternoon and we are told all about what we have gotten ourselves into and that we will be teaching adult refugee students from Congo on Day 2 of this course!! YES!!! Day 2!!! And no one has experience in teaching- at least not this kind of teaching!! We are told that we will each be doing a different stage of our warmer with our students(that we hadnt met yet), the lesson would be 20min long for each of us.
ALL of us a bit suprised at how soon we would be put into it but since we had no choice we had to talk about how we were going to do this. The pressure eased a bit when we were told we would be watched by the tutor in our respective groups but would not be officially assessed.
SO PHEW!!!
Oh !! I almost forgot!! We were supposed to have 12 in our whole class but one guy never made it so it was 11.
We were divided into two groups!! 5 people went with Carla to teach the Elementary level for the first two weeks while the 6 left over(including me) went with Bernard to teach the Intermediate level for the first two weeks.
And so it begins!!
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