DIARY III

These have been my last weeks of practice. The truth is that it has been a mixture of emotions. 

On the one hand, I have had a great time, since I have gained confidence with all the students and the teachers, I have established work routines that have helped me to do better the tasks and improve my classes.

On the other hand, I am very sad to have finished a day earlier because of the Covid19. I would like to say goodbye to all the students and the school and not so hastily, although I hope (when all this finishes) I can come back and make a visit.

These weeks I have also had difficulties to carry out some of the classes I had prepared, because the school had organized parties such as "Carnival", "Peace Day" and "The Hug Day", which lasted all day and there were no classes. Because of that, the next sessions were difficult for me, because I had to adapt them to be able to carry out everything I had to do before and reschedule the next sessions. Because of this, I have also realized that although I prepare a well-structured schedule, some things will always arise that will make me have to adapt this schedule.

On the other hand, as I said in the previous diary, in my classes there are many children with ADHD, some medicated and others not. This has made me consider two facts. 

First one is that I think that personally I haven't been fully prepared to work with children with these characteristics and, in addition, to attend properly the other students in the class. I have felt that, in many occasions, I gave a lot of importance to them, to be calm, to help them and wanting to develop the class properly, leaving the others more aside. 

Being aware of this, I should train myself and work more on that aspect because it is a reality that I will find when I work as a teacher.

In addition, I have been able to verify how, although in the university teachers already told us, perhaps I had very idealized what a class with children was: everyone calm, maybe some more moved, but with a good behaviour and doing things correctly. And in this time I have taken a dose of reality. In classes, as in real life and as it happens with adults, there are all kinds of children, with all kinds of difficulties, personalities, different ways of learning, communicating, expressing, sharing, etc., and my role as a teacher is to be able to transmit my knowledge to all of them, regardless all those factors. Because in the end they are that, children.

To finish, I would like to say that these practices have helped me to see what the reality of a teacher and a class is like. But above all, it has helped me to confirm once again that this is my profession,  this is what I want to dedicate my whole life to.

Because as Confucius said: "Choose a job that you like and you won't have to work a day in your life".