It was horrible, the students didn't even clap. Like they got bored.
But I don't want to feel SO bad, because I realized it happened with the "serious" topics. The first language here is Spanish. So, if they are explaioning something, the others students are not going to understand well so it's easily for them to get bored. I would have liked that the students at least clap to my students, but I think it was not because of them or the topic, but because they didn0t understand what it was about
. They loved the parts where sudents danced or those things., The sound was also awful. Some participants just thanked and left the "stage".
After all I feel good, and my anxiety was controlled. Just,there was a teacher that was saying to my students to "talk crealy" and loudly, and they did talk well... wth some students was right but it was with her students too, and I don't know why was there with mine, I already had told them the way they were going to talk, we even went to practice last Saturday, so today I felt like "attacked" that the teacher was not in her bussiness. Her students did the same and it was not even because of the students, it was the sound devices. But she was like paying too much attention to my students and to me, I felt it was a wake up call because I was not doing my job. When her students participated and they did exactly the same I was not with them or telloing her what she had to do. (She told me once: tell your students to take correctly the mic and blah blah). I don't like that attitude of her, she's always trying to do that kind of things, she says a lot: I GAVE THAT IDEA, I SAID THIS AND THAT, I, I ... She doesn'r even know how to plan, she asks me the daily planning because she doesn' know how to do it, but she loves the protocols, like she loves, I dno't know how to say it, that people sees or thinks she knows or anything... it would have been better if she focused on her students because it happened the same with them, but she was focused on me and my students.
So because of that for some moment the axiety weanted to come back and said: they didn't do it well because of me, or the topic was boring or I didn't do a job job because I didn't tell them how to talk... But, I knew it was not me, it was some cerftaing topics where the other students had to pay more attention to understand, and since it was a different language and they just wanted to have fun, this was not atractive to them (my topic and other teacher's topics, "serious" things) and I want to givethe credit to my students they are in seventh grade and they had never been in front ot the whole school talking, so they got nervous but they did it good. I told them they did it great, they did. They tried their best.
And well, it ended.
Post Edited (GreekGoddess) : 5/28/2013 1:03:20 PM (GMT-6)