Hello again! It may seem that we have abandoned the ITEBlog but it is no way the case. Last week has been a stressing at least for me, I had two meetings with my boss and at times I thought it was going to be impossible for me to cope with the situation. First day I was accompanied by one of my mates. We were informed about the rules of the centre and the way we had to behave in this or that situation, all the things children could do and we should foresee and prevent, how we should wear... all these things can be described by an endless accumulation of musts which at the moment were falling over me as really hug significant loads. Once I stopped to think it I soon realised tat most of the things were common sense and the rest could e called prevention and advice, all made in the basis of a prolonged experience of the centre.
In my second interview with the director I was by my self and that was the day I was given my timetable, the books and all the materials and the method for my classes. I will have been assigned seven groups within six different levels belonging to primary education. And a high mountain of books, resources and cd's which I could hardly transport myself. Luckily I was picked up and rescued at the school door, otherwise I think that I could have withdrawn at that very moment!! I breathed deep and determined to divide all the information in small parts that I would interconnect afterwards -this so very reasonable decision came after crying, suffering anxiety and being ridiculous fit in a discourse line depriving myself of any skill to face live. :P At the end laughs and creative and positive energy impulsed by friend's advices...
My first advice to others in my situation: keep friends near so they can convince you of how stupid you are when you think that the situation is biting you down!
The day after I went to spend some time at the school to get familiar with the space. Ii may seem ridiculous but it made sense for me to go there, stay for a while in the classrooms, look at the posters, have a look to the books at the library of the staff room...
Posters quite scared me because they can be the most immediate visual resource we have in the classroom, but they can also make evident a lack of knowledge about something. In this line, there is a poster about birds, with kinds and descriptions of the birds themselves and of their most characteristic features, of course accompanied by the respective picture, not a drawing or simplified picture but a proper photography!! Even with all that information I was totally unable to infer which birds were the most of those on the poster!! I have been thinking of removing the poster form the wall...
Apart from all this dissertation, I have been surfing the net searching for activities to start the first lessons and plan the week. I found some very interesting sites that have been added to the side-bar links. I just put them there, but I promise to organise them some day when I get along with al these things.
I hope to survive to my first week and to find some good ways to break the ice for the different levels these days, of course ideas and proposals are welcome!
In my second interview with the director I was by my self and that was the day I was given my timetable, the books and all the materials and the method for my classes. I will have been assigned seven groups within six different levels belonging to primary education. And a high mountain of books, resources and cd's which I could hardly transport myself. Luckily I was picked up and rescued at the school door, otherwise I think that I could have withdrawn at that very moment!! I breathed deep and determined to divide all the information in small parts that I would interconnect afterwards -this so very reasonable decision came after crying, suffering anxiety and being ridiculous fit in a discourse line depriving myself of any skill to face live. :P At the end laughs and creative and positive energy impulsed by friend's advices...
My first advice to others in my situation: keep friends near so they can convince you of how stupid you are when you think that the situation is biting you down!
The day after I went to spend some time at the school to get familiar with the space. Ii may seem ridiculous but it made sense for me to go there, stay for a while in the classrooms, look at the posters, have a look to the books at the library of the staff room...
Posters quite scared me because they can be the most immediate visual resource we have in the classroom, but they can also make evident a lack of knowledge about something. In this line, there is a poster about birds, with kinds and descriptions of the birds themselves and of their most characteristic features, of course accompanied by the respective picture, not a drawing or simplified picture but a proper photography!! Even with all that information I was totally unable to infer which birds were the most of those on the poster!! I have been thinking of removing the poster form the wall...
Apart from all this dissertation, I have been surfing the net searching for activities to start the first lessons and plan the week. I found some very interesting sites that have been added to the side-bar links. I just put them there, but I promise to organise them some day when I get along with al these things.
I hope to survive to my first week and to find some good ways to break the ice for the different levels these days, of course ideas and proposals are welcome!
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