Teaching English all day, every day, is still a lot of fun.
Apart from the poetry (one of my greatest passions), I’m really enjoying Visual Literacy. I don’t recall ever focusing on it as extensively when I was in school – and I find visual literacy to be an amazingly important kind of literacy. Especially on this side of the information-age’s “Third Wave”.
I never imagined that my design, copywriting and printing background would come in this handy in class!
I do miss my Life Orientation classes. If only I could split myself in two… then I would be able to teach all the English periods and get to teach L.O. again! (I still have to teach the required Mentor-critiqued lessons in L.O. as well.) I hope to get a chance to regain that balance once my English Mentor returns to school fully recovered from this nasty flu.
Tonight’s evening class was held in the study hall of the Ladies’ residence. I was delighted by the response I got for English! I had so much fun clarifying tense-issues and word-meaning confusions that I hardly noticed the time going by. I’ve never felt so happy about being asked so many questions – and I’ve never felt so good as I do when a light goes up for a learner.
“Oh! I get it!!” is my new favorite sound.
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