Because I said I would
It wasn't a complete disaster. It wasn't brilliant, though, and I don't think I'll get the job. But it wasn't a complete disaster. It was a learning experience 9as I've never done anything like that before so i'll know better what to expect next time.
I was about ten minutes late, which is actually lucky - because I had to wait forty minutes for the bus (the one that's meant to come every eight minutes). They were nice about it and I truly don't believe that will contribute to any of their decisions. However, it did affect my performance - not as much as it could of, but because I hurried from the tube station to the school I was hot and sweaty when I arrived and oculd have done with a couple of minutes to cool off.
The trial part was okay. I think the students understood what I was trying to teach them by the end of the lesson. However, as I don't know what the school was looking for, I don't know whether I did what they wanted.
The interview part was very brief, so I'm thinking that they had already made up their minds and as I think I did okay, but not brilliant, I am thinking they were thinking 'no'.
However, I did discover that the job was a little different from what I thought it was going to be - in that it would be almost completely a tutoring job in numeracy and literacy. Year sixes in groups in the morning and year fives and sixes in the afternoons one on one. And then a class of year fives on Friday. Not quite what I want.
So any way to cheer me up this afternoon I found myself a Taylor Mali playlist on you tube. If you have never heard anything by Taylor Mali GO! GO NOW! WATCH! You won't regret it. He's an English teacher (in America) who is also slam poet.
I'll even put a couple under a cut here. Just b/c if you haven't seen him you really should.
(Yes, if you've known me for a while on LJ, you've probably heard me go on about him before)
Click to viewAlso because I want to: (movie trailers)