It's a kind of magic...but I'm working a lot!!

Today I want to explain that I’ve decided to wide my observation timetable. I feel that 3 times a week study it’s not enough to approach myself to the school reality. So I’ve determined to become Victoria’s shadow. I go where she goes (sometimes in the morning it’s difficult to get up at time but I’m trying to do my best…). It’s very useful following her because she’s an extremely active person so she’s involved in a hundred million projects to improve pupil’s learning and she benefits the school. I’m amazed with her and I realise that I’m becoming a part of the school.

The other teachers are very pleasant with me so I’m feeling as a little teacher entering in a new world. A kind of fairy tale or something like that…like a small magic wheel which helps to keep everything OK. It’s a strange feeling and I don’t pretend make you understand but day by day I think about me as a real teacher. It’s a movement, a sight, a thought, like the song…It’s a kind of magic. My preparation isn’t the best to practise as a teacher but Victoria told me the first day we met that is about feeling and an inherent feature and she thinks I’ve got it!! Teachers are the tools to build a new society because they (one day maybe we) educate future adults.

Victoria teaches English in 1st ESO A and B and 1st Bachillerato too. I’ve got a CAP partner student. Her name is Rosa and she’s very shy so she doesn’t speak a word…maybe in a week or two she’ll feel comfortable to speak to me. Oh! I forget the “aula oberta”!! What an experience. I have had a lot of fun the first day in “aula oberta” because we told the pupils I was from New Zealand so I couldn’t say a word in Spanish. I repeat…WHAT AN EXPERIENCE!!! They were trying to use every word they knew in English to communicate with me. Definitely, I’m very happy with the activities I’m developing in different classes. I’ve prepared a Halloween bingo, I’ve corrected several homework, routines mime activity, running dictations, a Thanksgiving Day treasure hunt…Victoria makes me feel confident and she makes me feel I can implement everything is on my mind.

I’ve been thinking ‘bout my Didactic Unit and I’ve changed for about a hundred times my starting point: Uncle’s Tom Cabin, Fairy Tales, Theatre, Cinema… I want something to make pupils understand that diversity is necessary to grow as a complete person…maybe Barack Obama and his YES, WE CAN would help me…