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My first teaching experience

Nothing was right today or should I say ... it was right but I never felt it. The class was a chaos, it was maddening and noisy and I was feeling so damn helpless. Every experience teaches you something and this teaching experience has taught me so many things. First being, patience. I thought I have overcome that bit of having patience but today, i completely went back to being my old self, with no patience. Am still not sure what went wrong... probably my expectation of myself was too much or may be there were too many children to control. The whole class was not together ...somehow pupils were not paying attention. It did start off well, but then down the line, it all fell apart. Was it the fact that there were not activities or games included. May be. Could have done it a bit better. I did start the class with a nice energizer and then the power point did keep the children engaged. Think the whole idea of the just getting them to understand stuff was right but the way to d