A cuppa might help me...

I usually teach late at night, and this is what I was doing last Monday,  at around 11 pm. As usually, more than twenty eager-to-learn students were following my phonetics and phonology class.

I was occupied trying to teach them about how physical standing and speaking may affect for or against a foreign accent when speaking English, when I heard a loud, interrupting, laughing burst.....

.....one of the students had found my class so ridiculously funny that could not help making fun of me.


I just went on teaching the class, did not let him break the learning environment. However,

Should have I felt unappreciated by him? Why?

How do you feel when your experience is denied by the same learner?

Probably, a cuppa might help me today...or just a couple of lines from you...

Please, your comments are welcomed to be shared here.



Eva

Every teacher needs a blog

 "Becoming a reflective teacher"

A teaching blog is a weekly record of the events in a teacher's life that have impressed themselves most vividly on his or her consciuousness. By focusing on these events, we learn much more about our assumptions that if we just tried to list them.

Why is this important?

Because events that engage our emotions also reveal our values as teachers.


This blog is aimed to those teachers of English who feel tired and need a place to meet to positively empower each other.

I am a teacher of English, and sometimes I feel really tired; thus, I'd like a safe blank piece of "paper" to write about my feelings and emotions, hopes and dispairs.

This surely is the third or fourth attempt to make a reflecting journal, I 've always wanted to develop one, however, I am never into it, lack of time probably, but also lack of opportunities to write it.

I love my job. Do you like yours? Why?

Please, join me in this blogging exchange, help me to cheer up, I promise I'll try to cheer you up, as well!

I'd like to share this post with you.

Thanks for reading!

Eva