It is funny to see how everybody else’s tension is building, while ours is subsiding. Polar opposites from our first two weeks here! We’ve begun finishing off our required lessons and admin, while the rest of the school is either busy with or gearing up for exams.
My day was an LO day from start to finish. The Gr. 12s wrote the Departmental paper (final exam) for Life Orientation, which I invigilated. After that I had the Gr. 10s in class, where we continued talking about adolescence and how one could deal with different kinds of changes during that period. I was amazed at the solutions these learners came up with – and with the wisdom they seemed to possess in some instances! Equally amazing albeit less profound were some of the questions that were asked. Suffice to say that one needs to maintain a healthy sense of humor to survive teaching LO!
I honestly love teaching this subject. It manifests one of my personal mantras:
I live to teach – as long as I teach to Life.
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