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Watched Hairspray yesterday.
Cool! Loved all the music, singing and dancing. I really enjoyed all the choreography, colors, dresses. It was not the best movie ever, but I loved how Tracy keep positive even when things are going bad. It's true, if you are positive things get easier, I have to remember that.
I would give it a 7.
I am not sure how it is going at work.
Being a teacher, even if only part-time, is sometime very frustrating. I'm not sure if I got just bad luck or what. Sometimes the kids I teach to don't remember anything I say, even if I repeat one simple thing over 4 times. They don't concentrate, they think we are there for playing and having fun...which is ok, if they learn what they should we can have some fun time. But they have to learn something first. Sometimes I just feel they don't learn anything at all. The day before yesterday we spent 2 hours just learning some english grammar and already yesterday they forgot everything.
I thought it was my problem, maybe it's me the one who cannot explain things clearly...so I started to explain things the easier way possible, use the easiest words I could, speak slowly, ask every 5 minutes if they understood, I draw graphics, say many examples, write clear schemes, also say jokes or try to make games with the things we are learning. I don't really know what I could do more.
Now I'm sure I am doing my work the right way, I don't know how to make things clearer for the kids ... anyone who listen what I say would understand, I tried with some other children and they understood and remembered everything. So at this point I think it's not me. There is something wrong with them.
I asked to their mothers to come at one of the lessons, so they could check it's not me if they don't learn much ... it's them who don't concentrate, and I cannot do much about it. If they don't wanna listen what I say I don't know what I can do more. Now I'll feel a bit less guilty when they get not so good grades, I do my work the best way I could.
All this experience is making me think a lot. I really feel I am a failure if they cannot answer to my questions just after I explained one thing for 5 times. Yes, it's totally my failure and it makes feel like s**t...maybe teaching is not for me. I shouldn't even try to turn it in my future job.
Cool! Loved all the music, singing and dancing. I really enjoyed all the choreography, colors, dresses. It was not the best movie ever, but I loved how Tracy keep positive even when things are going bad. It's true, if you are positive things get easier, I have to remember that.
I would give it a 7.
I am not sure how it is going at work.
Being a teacher, even if only part-time, is sometime very frustrating. I'm not sure if I got just bad luck or what. Sometimes the kids I teach to don't remember anything I say, even if I repeat one simple thing over 4 times. They don't concentrate, they think we are there for playing and having fun...which is ok, if they learn what they should we can have some fun time. But they have to learn something first. Sometimes I just feel they don't learn anything at all. The day before yesterday we spent 2 hours just learning some english grammar and already yesterday they forgot everything.
I thought it was my problem, maybe it's me the one who cannot explain things clearly...so I started to explain things the easier way possible, use the easiest words I could, speak slowly, ask every 5 minutes if they understood, I draw graphics, say many examples, write clear schemes, also say jokes or try to make games with the things we are learning. I don't really know what I could do more.
Now I'm sure I am doing my work the right way, I don't know how to make things clearer for the kids ... anyone who listen what I say would understand, I tried with some other children and they understood and remembered everything. So at this point I think it's not me. There is something wrong with them.
I asked to their mothers to come at one of the lessons, so they could check it's not me if they don't learn much ... it's them who don't concentrate, and I cannot do much about it. If they don't wanna listen what I say I don't know what I can do more. Now I'll feel a bit less guilty when they get not so good grades, I do my work the best way I could.
All this experience is making me think a lot. I really feel I am a failure if they cannot answer to my questions just after I explained one thing for 5 times. Yes, it's totally my failure and it makes feel like s**t...maybe teaching is not for me. I shouldn't even try to turn it in my future job.