I’ve been teaching these private students for about six months now — holy smokes, I think it really has been six months..! Anyway, we have good days and bad ones; yesterday would be counted as a not so much day. It was a struggle to keep their attention and honestly, I ain’t so sure I’m doing a good job. Then again, as the old adage goes: You get out of it what you put into it.
I had my first TOEIC lesson today. I was pretty anxious about it ‘cuz I’m still not overly confident in teaching this. It started out bad ‘cuz I couldn’t find the student’s file in the binder, lucky for me today was one of the days that has fifteen minute breaks in the afternoon, so I was able to still make it to the lesson in time. But I didn’t feel really prepared. I’m still not sure if I even did what I was supposed to. I mean, we got through the lesson all right, but there’s this mini-test that the students are supposed to take in the second half of the lesson. They pass with a 60% or higher…and well, Kumi didn’t quite make it. She got 5 out of 9. I’m all kinds of paranoid. I hope she didn’t fail ‘cuz I suck as a teacher.
I would chalk it up to paranoia. Never had you as a teacher, but I’ve over heard you during lessons, and you do great. Teaching TOEIC, so not quittin any time soon I suppose.