Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Day 1: orientation and a little irish

A first day of first day things. Mainly administration and team bonding. Outside of this there were a few highlights. In the morning, we were treated to a half-hour lesson in Gaelic, which gave us a great opportunity to be back in the student's chair, only half-understanding what's going on, and also to experience a range of teaching strategies first-hand.

Then in the afternoon we observed a lesson with some 'guinea-pig' students (receiving free lessons in return for having to have them taught by us, haha!), discussed the approach, and prepared for our teaching tomorrow. I discovered that I was the only one of the six who had no previous teaching practice -- luckily for me I am not in the first four who are teaching tomorrow, so I have until Thursday to prepare my farce.

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