First teaching experience (by Eduarda Duarte)

I couldn’t write about anything else except my first real experience as a teacher. It’s been one month since I started working at Quatrum English Schools and it’s been really good. I’m really happy because I’m learning so many things about teaching, activities, games, classroom management etc...For someone who wasn’t completely sure about being a teacher ‘till the first internship I think I’m doing great!

I’m teaching kids and adults - although most of Quatrum’s students are children, there are a lot of adults too. Every day has been a challenge for me because I want to do things properly. So I spend a lot of time planning my classes and the activities, I also like to talk with more experienced teachers. But the thing is that no matter how many hours you spend on planning your class, you can’t plan some questions your students will ask. And you'll have to improvise and the only to learn this is with experience.
I know that I still have a lot to learn about everything including the language itself. But the main thing I already know. I love to teach.

Here is a picture of the Olympic Games, which students participated last month. They even won medals.

And to finish I really want to show you a video I did with some of my students about Newscasts of Natural Disasters. They had to create the lines and role-play a news program. This is a Pre-teen 6 level, which means that they understand a lot of English and now are starting to produce. Some have been studying English for 2 years.