#1th Week (7.11.14)

Hello :)

I will share my experiences during the first day of internship. 

First of all, I want to mention why i started late being intern. My schedule and the tutor's program didn't match and i needed to find another school. I tried that for 2 weeks, but as you guess, i couldn't and i convinced the tutor to start my intern.

I attended 3 different classes, 3E, 3B and 4A. I think it will the same program anymore. 

Actually, i had been intern to teach at a primary school when i was at highschool, but it was 4 years ago and i totally forgot how to act and talk with the students. Okay, we have a lot of presentations and works during our lessons, but all of them was gone when i entered the class, it's a real world :) My mentor asked me to introduce myself. I could say just "Hello! My name is Gizem. Mmmm.. Hmm.. How are you?" :D

My mentor said "whereever you want, you can sit, even teacher desk". I prefered sitting next to a student to check what they did. 

The unit was "My Family" at 3rd grade classes and the aim is to teach family members' names. Mrs. Ergur apllied a teacher-centered method. Listening music, writing, matching, ask and answer were the activities used during the lesson. 

I got a chance to examine the student's book. The book is fair enough enjoyable. There are listening activities, some crossmatches, a lot of pictures. The explanations are very basic. There are some pictures to cut and use during the activities like puppets talking or glue somewhere. I like the students book.

Teacher arranged always individual works for students. She could use some pair or group works. 

Students were really energetic and very motivated that made me surprised. They were really interested in learning English. Some of them are good at English, they learn easily while the others' learning takes a little time. 

There was no game or activity that allows the student to stand up and spend their energy. Teachers need to add some tiring, funny but instructive activities to lesson plan when they teach to young learners, because they cannot sit for a long time at their desk, their concentration level is very low as we know and they are energetic like little Tasmanian Devil :)