A Little Pressure

So apparently I'm a really good teacher. Or at least my head teachers think so. Which I've decided has proven to be good thing and a not-so-good thing haha. I always get really good evaluations every week and my head teachers like me and don't have to be on my case or anything.

However, a little while ago they were approached by the school who asked them to pick an ELE teacher to be watched as an example for a bunch of the Chinese teachers as well as our ILP teachers. You guessed it...... they chose me haha. So I had to prepare a "perfect" lesson and teach it to the kids in front of 30ish people. It didn't help my nerves that I was given very little detail on the age the kids would be until the day before the lesson.

When last Thursday came around I was rather terrified. Especially when I walked into that classroom and saw all the people with notebooks and pencils in hand just staring me down haha. The lesson I taught was on summer and I taught the kids about hiking and the beach and surfing. I had a power point and I taught them a song and actions to the vocab words. At the end I played some review games with them and then they drew some pics of what they like to do in the summer.

When I was done I was barraged with people (ILP and Chinese teachers) who told me how I did an amzing job, and I was an incredible teacher. It was pretty cool. That is until I was told that because I did so good they wanted me to do the whole thing again for another group of Chinese teachers the next day. There was just no escape. So I did and once again I was told that I did a good job. I'm certainly glad it's over though. It was a stressful few days.