PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE DIARY

Hello, there. As a college student myself, I know that managing several tasks from different subjects at the same time can be tricky and exhausting, which usually leads us to feel very stressed at times. That's why I would like to dedicate this entry to this specific topic, as I've recently experimented myself, now as a teacher, the effects that stress can have even in learners from early stages. I am currently teaching a group of teen and pre-teen students in a private language institute and I really like to work with them because they are very participative and hardworking, which makes my work very easy and enjoyable. However, every four classes, according to the rules of the institution, we are supposed to have either a midterm or final exam, something that occasionally used to stress my students out, even though they knew they were ready to be evaluated. When I started to notice this, I'd been working with them for a while and I thought that it was just a matte...

Hello, there. As we know, these last two weeks have been pretty intense due to the Coronavirus outbreak that right now is the main concern of many governments around the world, and of course, that has affected our country's education system as well. As the son of an elementary school teacher and a college student myself, I have witnessed the radical change for both sectors and it has been surprising for me how everything has radically changed overnight. But, of course, as English teachers, something that characterizes us is our adaptability during emergency situations, and this case hasn't been the exception. In less than a week, I've found out different ways to work and study by distance learning that I thought I will never ever use. You'll see, about a year ago, I was assigned by my English teacher at the time to finish a whole English teaching online course of any type from the Cambridge official website. So, I decided to sign up for one called "How to t...