Category Teaching Reflections

Today was our final class. We want to complete it well with mixed feelings, happy and sad. We were so glad because teaching this semester make us grow to approach a good teacher. The sad thing is that we just… Continue Reading →

Today I started my solo teaching this semester. At the beginning of class, I felt more nervous without my partner turning on the camera with me in the classroom. However, things went more smoothly than I thought, which gave me… Continue Reading →

Today we delivered our second English Conversation Club. It was quite successful because we made everyone talking and participate in our topic about the hobby. At the first, we were trying to create a warm and friendly learning environment to… Continue Reading →

We were so surprised that there were sixteen students in our conversation club. Most of them are from Japan and China. We got more confidence from these amazing people to cure our discouragement from teaching grammar lab because they are… Continue Reading →

Today’s class went pretty well. Last class, Alex pointed out that Sarah had less time on teaching grammar rules. So, Sarah offered to teach grammar rules more this time. I am glad to switch the position because I would like… Continue Reading →

Like last time, we were chatting with students when it was time to begin class. Sarah introduced to students about our guest, Alex, which is a heads-up for students and relive their pressure from that. We had warm-up activity before… Continue Reading →

This time we decided to check students in by calling on their name and chatting like Brian always did instead of beginning with class and making activities to let students share themselves. We had a nice chatting with several active… Continue Reading →

To make class more fun and get more students engaged, we came up with a warm-up activity called Act It Out. While Sarah was checking attendance and giving instruction, I sent a word to each student in a private chat…. Continue Reading →

According to what we learnt from our previous class, we added more interaction with students, such as changing status and starting a poll. Although some students got confused how to use Big Blue Button to change status, Sarah patiently and… Continue Reading →

Today’s lesson is our first time as teachers. Honestly, the first class was not as easy as we had thought. We anticipated all students who enrolled in advanced grammar to join our grammar lab. However, we were surprised by less… Continue Reading →