However, it was quite the opposite. Yesterday (Friday), I taught my first full lesson - English. My mentor teacher had talked to me the day before about what needed to be included in the lesson, how I was to set it out and what to do. I also needed to write up a lesson plan to show my teacher, which was a lot easier to do now that I've had 4 whole days of observation. When it came time to do the lesson, I went through it basically according to my lesson plan that I had written out. The lesson was all about narrative text and information text and how to take information from a narrative text and turning that into an information sentence. I went through multiple examples with them as a class and then got them to start writing out information sentences on their own, taken from underlined phrases in a narrative text.
It was all going pretty well until the fire evacuation drill alarm went off. I even thought 'damn it! why does it have to go off now, during my lesson?' It was kind of strange to think that, when a day before I was freaking out about how well I would do. However, right at the start of first break, about 15-20 minutes after the alarm went off, my teacher sat me down and gave me feedback on my lesson. She went through things I did well, which I was both surprised and happy to know she found I did certain things well. And she obviously told me stuff I could improve upon, but also being my first ever prac, knew that I wouldn't do everything well. She even said that she still needs to work on some things, so it was entirely good, constructive criticism/feedback.
There's still a lot more to write about, but I think I might leave that for another post. I'll post up either later today or tomorrow (Sunday), so feel free to check back!