Teaching Assignment:1

So I finally taught a 'class' for our ICU class. I have to admit that I was nervous about the whole thing and was racking my mind for what they would possibly have us teach our students. I was thinking, what could I teach--sure English is my native language but I am the last person who should be molding future minds and potentially telling them something wrong.

Our teaching lesson was to be on Payap's alternate campus (the one across from McCormick Hospital) and our students were Divinity students. So we (me and Angela were teaching together) got a little lost trying to look for the dorm where we were suposse to meet. Finally we found it and our students approached us, at first glance I thought they were the teachers since both were older looking, until they asked..."So how do we do this? Should we just have a discussion?". We agreed that a discussion would be a good idea, since clearly (after greeting them and introducing ourselves)we could tell the were quite proficient.

Over all, the conversation we had ran fairly smoothly. There were times when I had to remind myself to speak slowly, since their comprehension was not at par with a native speaker. Their vocab was really good and the topics we discussed were well ranged from airport travel to life altering decisions. In the end, I felt that the 'lesson' or conversation session went really well since we were all really relaxed. I think the relaxed feeling created a really comfortable environment and gave them an opportunity to really utilized what they had learned.