Last Week

The last week at school was kind of a blurr.
With most of the curriculum work completed and tests marked there was not much left to teach to the learners. As a result, I took the initiative and spoke to the teachers about doing some Kahoot games as part of reviewing the terms work covered.
The teachers were also happy with the idea of doing kahoot reviews as it freed up time for them to do some more marking of tests and projects as the deadline for submitting final marks was Thursday.

An unexpected benefit was that I could spend more time with other teachers to discuss my general schooling experience. It also afforded me the time to ensure that all my paperwork with regards to the school practical visit was up to date.

Thursday was a sad day as it was my last day. I spent some additional time saying goodbye to the learners and was made to promise that I will bring the second grade 10 Math Lit class some fudge next week, as they missed out on the fudge I made the one class previously.

The very last thing that a learner told me after school was that my lessons helped her to make sense of accounting. According to her she never previously was able to do accounting and my way of teaching helped her to get good marks for the first time in her high school career.
Her remark alone is proof enough to me that I made the correct choice to become a teacher as I felt over the moon about having made an actual difference in someone's life and knowing that it is something that will benefit the learner for the rest of her life.
A lot of other classes had a lot of comments regarding ways and means with which I can improve my teaching, but after some discussions there was not really any consensus regarding what I can do except that I need to practice my white board writing skills, Funny enough, the girls commented that my black board writing is great but my white board writing needs some attention as I need to re-write a lot of the times, especially if I get excited or write faster.