Monday, February 7, 2011

Bad Lesson turned good

A few weeks ago I taught a life skills class about self esteem. I personally did not think the lesson went very well, so I was dreading having to teach life skills again the following week, but lucky me, I was going to be travelling for a meeting the day that I was supposed to have the next life skills lesson. I told my students that I would not be in class for chemistry or life skills that day and gave them some work to do for chemistry. At 3.30 (30 min before the end of day classes) one of the students came up to me and told me the class wanted me to teach them life skills then since I would not be able to on Friday. I was thinking to myself "seriously they want another class after that last horrible one?" So I said "we will not be able to finish before 4 if we start now. You really want me to come teach life skills?" and she replied with an enthusiastic yes! I'll just say it was very nice to know that even though I thought that my teaching skills were subpar, my students seem to not think so :)
Also this last weekend I decided to try to get a group of girls together to teach them how to play Ultimate Frisbee. Even with the scorching sun bearing down, I was able to round up 13 girls to play. After about 20 minutes of them all learning how to throw the frisbee, the game began... and it was so much fun! The girls caught on really fast and we played for about an hour maybe. At the end I asked if they wanted to play again in the future, and they all said yes (I mean why wouldn't they?) I asked them if they would want to play on saturdays or on sundays. They politely asked if we could play on BOTH saturday and sunday. :) looks like I have some fun weekends ahead in the future.