The end of my practicum has come!

From Monday, 17th December to Wednesday, 19th December 2007. On Monday afternoon, just before starting the class, I thought 'Just two days and I will have implemented my last two sessions'. When you have been doing a task for a long time, you feel as if it will never come to an end. Now I have finished my practicum at all, my feelings seem to be divided. On one hand, I feel relieved because, believe or not, teaching can really become exhausting and, on the other hand, I have the impression that I will miss all the kids a lot because I have been working with them for two intense and absorbing months. I will always keep them in my mind because they are kind-hearted, honest and hard-working students (except for a few of them, of course, who are extremely lazy!). In general, I can affirm that my teaching experience at a secondary school has been good and interesting. I have learned lots of things about the centre, the meetings, the classes and so on. Teaching at a public school is actually quite different from teaching at a language school, where I have been working since I left university. For instance, secondary school students' backgrounds are heterogeneous, which is hard to cope with in the same class, while students' backgrounds at the language school are practically similar. Anyway, this new experience has allowed me to broaden my mind and discover other ways of learning that for me have been unknown so far. I wish I had been able to enjoy these new technologies when I was studying. I hope I will use them in short as a secondary school teacher, not just as a CAP student!