Derya's Teaching Blog

 I am back with the posts for the summer camp, here I will briefly explain the last 3 weeks and what we have done. Week 5 was Wildlife in the city camp, where I have worked totally with a new teacher, who probably thought that I am a professional teacher and acted like it so I felt bad, because she gave me tasks and left me alone with the kids, which other teachers did not allow to do, but then I have informed her so she does not think I am a bad teacher XD In this camp we explored, wildlife in the city and visited parks and green areas. We have spent most of the time picking-up the trash and raising awareness of the children to save the nature. At the first day we have done an insect-house, which was very fun! Other days we have done a bird-feeder and also collected flowers, leaves and different kind of materials that can serve as a paint, so at the end of which we can paint our drawings with the natural paint. In this camp we had mostly older kids, which was easier for the teache...

 The reason I am taking these three camps together is because I have worked with the same teacher so the approach to the students was the same, however kids and the content of the camps were different. The second camp was Sports, where we had field trips to the pitch nearby the school and most of the students were boys, in this camp there were 2 students, brothers who had weak English and the younger one did not speak at all, there I told myself that I can observe them during these weeks and it was a different experience for me because almost all of the students are very fluent in English. But by mimicking and using hand gestures and asking him to repeat made a progress at the end of the camp. The content of the camp was mainly sports, where kids played different games, but the most favorite one was " longball " which is a Danish sports-   described as a hybrid of  baseball  and  cricket . I have noticed that every teacher has a different approach, Mrs.Rashmi,wh...