July 15, 2004

• Old new thing….

  
  

  I have been a teacher for about 10 years now. I has been for the same school thought. Something great about it, is that I did get used to the methodology, and I have made great friends there as well. Private language schools in Brazil tend to have small groups, which allows teachers and students to have a closer relationship when it is convenient or simply something normal for both parts. A good number of friends I have now are ex students. That also makes me grow as person, once I´m usually learning from them, as they tend to work in different areas.  however, as a professional, working at the same place for so long tend  to make one lack goals, or simply become too stuck in the same way. 

  
  

  For some time now I had been willing to change a bit, and explore other ways in the education field, but didnt even know where to start from. Sometimes I confess I even didn´t think I could at least be able to do so. Then  a friend comes and offers me to stay in her place at a regular school she had been teaching for a while. That was my chance. Seeing and feeling myself a brand new  area was exactly what i was looking for.  And I have been teaching there for 5 months now.   The beginning was scary. As I accepted to teach groups from the kindergarden till high school levels, and each group has an average of 25 students. I had then to manage the teaching part with the controlling class addded with the fact that I was there in front of many different individuals each class.

  
  

  Five months later, i´m here.. alive! I have the luck to have a director that is a psychologist, and one who has given me all the support I have needed. Now, i feel the need of coming back to College and take a course on Education. I feel the need of learning more on ways of learning and teaching. What comes next, I´ll just find out later.. and there´s much more to write about this experience as well. Meanwhile, let me just show you some of the groups. I didnt manage to take pics from all of them, but here are at least some…

  
  

  Below, there are my 3rd and 2nd primary school groups. And.. yes, the 2nd grade was just quiet like that because it was exam day…

  
  

  

  
  

  Below, the 5th and 6th Grades…All devils…But I love them…

  
  

  

  
  

  Below, some of my pearls from the kindergarden….

  
  

   

  
  

  

  
  

  You can click on the pics to see them larger. I´ll post more on the teaching advencture later!

  
  

   

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