Teaching Blog

16/10/06

I find all my time is spent planning and preparing, for teaching practice. From writing out lesson plans, class exercises, homework and reflections, to reading over the material in advance of the class, I find I have little time for course work. I have five classes in the week. I am teaching second years and fifth year students. Fortunately, these classes are in the morning. In the afternoon, I write the reflection of the class and I usually get time to correct the students exercises. I have course classes at three o'clock (Irish=Monday and Tuesdays). I finish course lectures at six. I prepare the lesson plan, which takes me a while to complete, because its all new to me and I type out the student's homework. After that I read over the section to be covered the following day to make sure I know everything in that section and I read further to make sure I know that too. Where does course work fit in?