Welcome everyone to my fourth post. Today I have decided to talk about my feelings about the workshop.
As you know, we are going to have the visit of some students of fourth of primary in our college. This is so excited. Now we are students in our senior year, we all have worked and prepared activities for a group of students, but in my opinion this is something new, because we are going to have the chance to work with our classmates, as we have been doing during this four years, but with one difference. This time we are going to have the chance to put it into practice, and this is so important for several reasons.
Sometimes I have the feeling that we are doing incredible works, in many subjects. But then, we don’t do anything apart from the presentation with them. Of course, I’m not saying this is something bad cause we can´t put it into practice always as we are going to do this time. I know these activities are part of our training and we can always use them in the future, but it is true that I think that it would be wonderful if we have had the chance of doing this more times, because is the final proof, to see if what we are doing can work or not, what kind of things we need to improve, adapt, change or modify.
I have to say that at the beginning when this activity was proposed to us I was thinking, “This is very complicated and it’s going to take a lot of time to prepare it”. Now, I still thinking the same, it takes a lot of organization and coordination between all the groups but watching the planning, how is all organized, and the ideas we all have had. I think we are going to do an incredible work. Of course, is going to take a lot of time, work, reflection, preparation, effort from us. But I think we are really motivated and when we have started working and thinking about what things we can do, we became really excited and we want to do our best to impress those students.
I can’t wait to start working on this to see all the activities we are going to prepare and to receive the children. I’m sure we all are going to do an incredible work that we all will enjoy, children and “almost teachers”.
Hi dear Helen! I have found your post very significant and I have chosen it to comment on because I have the same impression and feelings as you.
You are right; we have created a huge amount of work projects that maybe have been great. However, we have not had the possibility of applying them to a real context. It is true that when we are in our practice time at schools we can put the theory into practice but it is not always easy. We have to adapt to the pace of the class and the book and sometimes we do not have enough time to carry out some projects that could be interesting for them.
Due to this reason, this is a great opportunity to apply our project and ideas to real pupils! It is very exciting and challenging. I guess it could be great if it could be done since the first year of the degree (maybe it could be a proposal for our collages in previous years).
I strongly feel that this workshop will be amazing and we all are going to enjoy this lesson because not only pupils are going to learn and experience something different to what they are used to, but also we are going to put the theory into practice with them!
Bye bye!