Siete: final observation complete

 So our final observations got put forward a week because of... Fallas? or something? Not too sure but either way, it is now complete and I'm pretty glad about it as it's one less thing to worry about. Feels like I've already finished after just over 2 weeks which a bit strange. 

Luckily for me I had it with my favourite class, a level 5 group (age 10-11) who are all amazing and don't get too out of control. The lesson went pretty smoothly - pre-taught some vocab for a reading task about different types of stories and a game to finish up. Was worried it wouldn't all fit in to a 55 minute slot but I underestimated how good they actually are at English so the final task went a lot quicker than I thought.

Got some decent feedback from Fran at the end. More boardwork, less handouts, make the game more educational and a few other pointers. But overall it went well. Not sure what would've happened if he'd observed one of the other classes though...

Classroom management is still my biggest weakness I think. Feels like being a babysitter rather than a teacher and it definitely puts me off wanting to teach in the future as it's just not something I enjoy doing. It requires a lot of patience/confidence which I don't think I have. Even the small classes are difficult. My biggest class is around 13 or so and they're a complete nightmare, and even classes with 4-5 there's still always one who's daydreaming or not on the right page. I honestly have no idea how people are managing classes with 25+ kids in, especially when they clearly don't want to be there. For sure glad that's not me. For sure....

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