School Practice as a Teacher

I am a teacher
During the first three weeks of our 2nd semester of the university, we were sent by our university professors for the big mission - to feel what it really meant to be a teacher. So my school practice held between 30.01-18.02. So let me tell you how did it passed what kind of feelings and admiration did it leave on me.
First of all I’d like to mention that a teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge and wisdom in the students. He is a visible angel showing and helping you through your life whether you need it or not.
Knowing that, I stepped into the school №12 in order to explore myself as an effective teacher. I also knew that teaching is not only books and exercises, but also inspiring students to learn by themselves. Because a teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the student with a desire to learn is like hammering on cold iron.
On the 1st day of school practice, classes were divided between us. All my group mates were given 5th grades, but I had chosen 10th and 11th grades. The matter of my choice was that I wanted to use that wide range of possibilities and methods which wouldn`t be impossible with 5th grade`s pupils. In total I had to have 10 lessons during that practice.
My first three lessons passed on Saturday. Actually in that school there weren`t any computerized (tape, computer, active board) English classes, which is very important nowadays so it would be boring without them. The next thing I had to do was to find the class with all that stuff. Finally, I achieved it and the rest of the lessons I was teaching students in multimedia class.
What about my preparations? The day before the classes I made a lesson plan according to the documentation. Then I started collecting materials such as a Slide show, PPPs, Audio materials, Short videos, Song etc. Also I prepared games and visual aids according to the theme. When all of that were ready I practiced imaginatively. Also I didn`t forget to take some candies to the most active students in order to motivate them for further studies.
During the lessons I tried to use some new methods not that ancient types. For instance to explain Past simple I came into the class with one hand in a bandage and told my story about what happened to me the day before, then listened students about their unlucky days in past tense. It was warming – up technique. The next thing I did was telling of two different stories. First one was sad second one was funny, using active board. Both of them had a moral which I`ve explained at the end. While explaining the grammar by active board we had moments where some students were in the role of a teacher and me in the role of a student. To demonstrate the real life usage I showed short cartoon videos on a particular grammar topic. And the last thing to did, I checked in some way if students understood the theme. Sometimes I did it with the help of the song where I divided students into the groups and tell them to change the forms of verbs or asked students to make short dialogs and demonstrate them. For the active part or winners usually I gave some gifts like candies etc.
Even it was hard to motivate students to learn and explain the role of teachers` job in person’s life, by the end of our school practice I understood so much. I understood that in teaching maybe you cannot see the fruit of a day`s work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years… or maybe even more, until person just ripens and understands teachers` role. So personally, I believe that a teacher must prepare for lesson… but only one-fourth and the other tree-fourth is theater… improvisation, acting, playing and joking! And I perfectly know that writer William Arthur Ward said that the mediocre teacher tells, the good teacher explains, the superior teacher demonstrates and the great teacher inspires.
To sum up my idea, I want to finish my essay with the statement “Discover Wildlife: Be a Teacher!”