I'm A TEACHER!!

Over the past few days, I have had many break throughs as a teacher!!
Yesterday, Yvonne was teaching class and giving them a review of poetry. One of the students, Dodgy, said "Miss O. told us that we should look at the background information of the author when appreciating a piece of poetry." I had taught them this over a week ago! I'm so excited that I made a break through with the kids and that they actually learned what I was teaching!!!

Today's break through was the best!
I was teaching my English as a second language class for 80 minutes. First, I taught how to create guidelines. Then I taught Idioms. Now, I must give special thanks to my high school french teacher for giving me the idea of putting flash cards on the board to make a game. The students loved learned idioms and thought it was so much fun! They first had to figure out what each idiom meant, and then they would run up to the board and slap the meaning! It was great. There was a lot of laughter in my classroom today, and that made me happy.

After class, my teacher, Yvonne, came up to me and said, "That was amazing! I wish you would have been here all year. And I wish you were staying because that lesson was so good! I'm so sad exams come next week, but you can teach when exams are over!"
Getting her approval meant so much to me and made me finally feel as if I was her colleague. Today was a good day :)

Hope all of you are having good days!

God bless and love,
Miss O. :)