I started life as an actual teacher on Monday...but then my first class got cancelled...
...so then I re-started life as an actual teacher yesterday with my "first" class at a medical supply company, OZP. There were 6 very kind students eager to start the course again after a 3 month break, only to find that I had to give a standardized test on day 1 to assess their level. After brief introductions and an intense 75 minutes of testing they were very happy to go home and I didn't blame them. After grading them I am happy to see their results and hope that they can indeed move up a level to Upper-Intermediate.
Back at IJV I received a revised schedule and it looks like I have two post-secondary classes which each meet daily for 90 minutes. These classes are composed of 16 (!) students ages 19-21 who need to pass the English exam to get accepted into University. I will be teaching from a regular textbook for the first semester, then doing exam preparation for the Cambridge exams starting after Christmas break.
For the rest of the week I am creating supplemental coversation lesson plans for IJV, saying goodbye to fellow TEFL classmates who are leaving Prague for various reasons, and meeting the rest of the English teaching staff!
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