When God Said "Go!": First Day of Teaching!!

My first day of teaching went great!! It was really fun! We only taught Wednesday and Thursday!

9/9/09 - Normally at the EV we have elementary aged kids from schools around the area, but for our first two days we taught the Nan Jung students. We had the privilege of teaching the ninth grade class. Before our first two days of teaching, Wes, our team leader had us write lesson plans for one of the stations in the EV. I wrote a lesson plan for the market. Well, Wes ended up not using the market for our first two days of teaching, so he put me in the Airport and Cafe. I had to come up with new lesson plans. I wrote one for the airport, and decided that I was just going to go off what Hannah had written up in her lesson plan. So for the airport, I was a little bit more prepared, whereas the cafe, I wasn't as prepared. I mean, I had an idea of what I was doing, but I wasn't totally sure because I hadn't written this lesson plan myself. It helps to write up something yourself, even if you take ideas from other lesson plans, you have a better idea of what you are going to be doing with your kids.

For my first class I taught in the Cafe. In my opinion it did not go well at all. The kids were not paying attention, and my class didn't seem as fun as some of the other classes were. I am sure they had fun, it just didn't seem like it! Anyways....so after my first class, I felt a little discouraged! :( Don't worry, that is not the end of the story. My Airport lesson...it went great!! I had a lot of fun teaching the airport. My lesson was better, the kids were better, everything just went a lot better. My discouragement from the previous lesson, was turned into happiness!! So basically, other than the first class, my other classes went really well!! I still had to teach more cafe lessons, and as they went on each one got better. Out of the two, I would rather teach the airport!!