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In less than 12 hours it will all be over-well this part anyway! I have my first observed lesson tomorrow and I swore I wasn’t going to start stressing at this early stage……….oh how I lied!!!!!!! I got into work at 8.15 this morning and worked on the lesson plan almost non stop till 1pm , when I had to teach again. After the (unprepared) lesson, I proceded to try and get tomorrow’s lesson plan completed.
I feel as though I haven’t moved on from the CELTA course-I tend to be rather indecisive-understatement-when it comes to observed teaching-even within my own place of work! This is why I am usually left panicking at the last minute. If only I could stick to what I originally planned to teach……. but no, I keep coming up with these brilliant ideas on how to wow the observer-A NEW ONE EVERY DAY!Eventually I had to decide and so spent another hour and a half designing the new materials that I needed. Why oh why didn’t I just use the Skills for Life student pack and materials? No I had to try and be clever. Planned a kind of running dictation style comprehension. (hmmmm… yes, I wondered, too)
Anyway, after photocopying everything and remembering to copy the lesson plan for myself, I stupidly left it at work, so will have to go in early YET AGAIN to highlight all the bits I want to remember. I hope the cleaner doesn’t move anything on my desk: I will freak out! Poor Polly-my 14 yr old daughter- has been ill off and on for the last 12 days. She now has a mouth full of ulcers and the usual mother’s guilt seeps in BIG TIME!! Any other day I would have just called in late and taken her to the GP, but I have no way of contacting my tutor at this late stage, so I have to hope that the doctor will have an afternoon appointment free. One thing I am sure of-once my hour long stand alone observed lesson is over, my students will be glad to know that I am off home to my daughter! There is a limit, you know.
If anyone’s interested, my E1 students will be ‘obtaining information from a school timetable, talking about likes and dislikes re school subjects, and writing a sentence or two about it.’ That’s the plan, anyway. Let’s see if I manage to achieve my aims, eh? Can’t wait till it’s all over. This is worse than the dreaded presentation.
I will let you know how it goes-if I can stay awake!!!!!
Wish me luck!

This entry was posted on Thursday, March 22nd, 2007 at 11:51 pm and is filed under indecision, ulcers, guilt, observations. You can leave a response to this entry.