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April 7 – Part 2

Looking back over the lessons that I have taught, I was able to grow, but there is still a lot of growing that I need to do. If I do end up teaching with a partner in the future, I… Continue Reading →

April 7 – Part 1

This was our last lesson to teach for the semester. It was a really good class covering symbolism in Araby by James Joyce. Going through the story and trying to figure out the symbols and what they could mean was… Continue Reading →

March 24 – Solo Lesson

This was my first solo teaching session and allowed me to explore more of what I was capable of doing, both technically and what I can explain to the students. One thing that did become clear to me, I do… Continue Reading →

March 1 – Part 2

With technology comes difficulties, unfortunately we didn’t know that there was no private chat feature in breakout rooms, so allowing more time for me to message each student individually with a vocabulary word would have come in handy, but nevertheless,… Continue Reading →

March 1 – Part 1

This class felt a lot more balanced between my partner and myself. We actually made sure to break down and say who will be leading each activity as well as paying better attention to the time as that was something… Continue Reading →

February 24 – Part 2

February 24 – Part 1

In this lesson, the story that we were covering was The Street Sweeping Show. To keep this in relation to the last time we taught, our warmup focused on vocabulary from the last story we read.  For the warmup portion… Continue Reading →

Alex’s Class Round 2

This round of teaching, I was more of a backup, tech support type role, which was nice as I haven’t had much chance to be presenter, but asides from that, class went very well.  The students were very engaged right… Continue Reading →

February 10 – Part 2

In this lesson, there was a focus on analysis and providing the tools for the students. As I have already mentioned, we used breakout rooms this time around. In the rooms, I did take on a leadership role, which wasn’t… Continue Reading →

February 10 – Part 1

This time around for our class, we had a more solidified plan and broke everything into timed segments which helped us keep to the class time as well as giving the students a chance to have a short break at… Continue Reading →

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