Day 25-28 -Busy Busy Busy

I've still been taking on more and more responsibilities as time has gone on and there are very few sessions that I'm not teaching at this point. I've been busier than I could have possibly imagined. Luckily for me, I've also learned more than I could have possibly imagined. It's funny that when you have all the time in the world as a student in college it takes hours to plan lessons that you rarely implement in a classroom. Now that I teach every day, more than one lesson in most cases, I've figured out how to really fine tune my thought process about the different strategies I want to use. I've also been given a great opportunity in my placement because I get to teach my lessons to two different groups of students at separate times and I'm able to tweak things as needed. The opportunity to do this has also made me think about different learners and the mistakes I've made before help to make sure that my lessons are working the first time around. It's been a great experience so far and as I come into the final stretch of my placement here in Australia I know I'm going to be able to take an enormous amount of effective strategies back to the United States.