The school
year of 2015/2016 is my second year as a primary school teacher. I graduated
from uni in 2014 and started working at a bilingual elementary school in 2014. I was teaching
5th and 6th grade in my first year and I was also classroom advisor for grade
6.
I started
out the school year with 9 students and ended it with 13. They were my first,
so they will always have a special place in my heart. Here is why...
Starting
something new is always special. My first job, my first salary and most
importantly my first class. The children in grade 6 are 11 or 12 years old. I
had five boys and eight girls. All of them very very special and unique and
that’s what makes teaching so great. The children come in, with their
personalities and learning styles and they form a very heterogeneous group. A great mixture of
kids and each and every one of them had their special quality.
Since it
was my first year of teaching, they were kind of my guinea pigs. I tried to
make my lessons very divers and fun, I always include a game in the beginning,
sometimes connected to the topic we are talking about, something not. With
group work, different level works, presentations and much more, the lessons were
interesting and also challenging for the kids. The feedback I got from
colleagues, parents and most importantly from the kids was wonderful and it
always motivates me even more.
I was able
to build a relationship to every single one of my students, getting to know
them and helping them in the ways they needed it. 6th grade is the
end of primary school in Switzerland, so it was for me, the children and the
parents to decide about the future of the kids. That brought me even closer to
them.
A wonderful
and fun bunch, that made my first year of teaching special and unique. I have
to be honest, I still miss them. Thankfully the school also has a high school,
so I see most of them every day.
I decided
to write more posts about teaching, so if there is anything you’d like to know
and want me to write about, let me know.
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