Today, Thursday, June 30, 2011 (when I’m writing this), was my last day of practicum teaching at OPASS JHS. Four of us PCVTs (T for Trainee) were assigned to OPASS to teach all the Mathematics (called Maths here, yes with the S) and Integrated Science classes to the Form 1 (sixth grade) and Form 2 (seventh grade) students for two weeks time. I think Spencer, Adam, Stephanie, and I made a great team. I was so thankful to have them around to be able to vent to about things that were bothering me. For example, trying to teach diffusion of light into its spectrum without access to a prism or teaching “basic” electronics, i.e. multi-vibrating oscillating circuits (flashing LED lights), without access to any circuit board, electric components, or lab. Pretty much all there is here is the teacher and the blackboard (which is really some black paint on brick). I think we were a huge success however and are now “prepared” for our permanent assignments as teachers. Not that 2 weeks is all you need to be trained to be a good teacher, but our training, evaluation, and practice was intense and amazing. I feel ready enough and very excited to begin teaching from the beginning of the school year so I can learn all my student’s names (there wasn’t any way I was going to memorize 60 names in each of my classes this week). I feel confident with my classroom management and discipline. I will slowly get the hang of changing my English so I'm more easily understood and at the same time figure out how to coax my students to speech up so I can hear them. All in all, it was an amazing two weeks and no we're moving onto intensive language study. I will try to post pictures of my time at OPASS too. Godspeed. -Zachar
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