Placement

I have been staying in the country for a few weeks, I am out on my first placement at a highschool, seeing how the other half works. I like the role of the teacher, and the few classes I have taught so far have worked relatively well. There have been some things that I can improve, but the teachers I am working with have given me so much help and information. I don't know how they can give up their classes and let me teach them, and make a mess of it. But I guess that they are all not far out of school themselves, and they are giving back what they had when they were student teachers themselves.

Today I am teaching kids to play chords on guitar. Not to mention that I can't really play guitar myself besides the 4 chords I am teaching them today, but by the next class I will have to have learnt something else. I taught a theory class yesterday, and I felt really good about it, the class didn't go wild, and I think that they learnt something. The other class, the discussion, didn't go so well, I rushed through the discussion because I was so nervous. I still feel a bit funny about it, because I stopped talking when I got to the end of the notes, and realised that I should have taken more time. I have to get rid of this feeling that I failed a little. Because the discussion went well, I got answers to my questions and they didn't talk too much.

Its Marks birthday on saturday. Yay! he'll be 24. oooooh, old.