By the time this post gets online, all of you will have taught at the new level. Some of you will have started working with students much less capable than those you worked with last week; this will present you with certain challenges, such as grading your language, clear and obvious class management and the ability to decipher less grammatical output. The rest of you will have started working with more proficient students; you may have been intimidated by their level and the fact that you find it difficult to hear anything that you feel you could improve.
This is all normal and is nothing to be concerned about. New conditions require getting used to and this is OK. We (your tutors) are all aware that this week's first lessons need to be viewed in similar ways to your first lessons: much is new and a certain amount of "back-pedalling" is to be expected.
So however you feel you have done in your first encounter with your new group of students, the important thing is to look forward. Think about what you have learnt from watching your colleagues working with the class, and consider the lessons you have taken away from your first lesson. Look over the notes you have made for your focus on the learner assignment: what do they tell you? take all these lessons and act on them in your next class.
By the end of this week, all being well, you will have got the measure of your new teaching environment and will be in a position to keep moving forward.
We all have the utmost faith in every one of you.
Best wishes,
Anthony, Dominic & Dee-Dee
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