{"id":82,"date":"2010-12-20T12:56:47","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T11:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.escolacristiana.org\/pac\/?p=82"},"modified":"2011-01-05T14:16:55","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T13:16:55","slug":"col%c2%b7legi-escorial-vic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.escolacristiana.org\/pac\/2010\/12\/20\/col%c2%b7legi-escorial-vic\/","title":{"rendered":"Col\u00b7legi Escorial – Vic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alison Watkins, conversational assistant at Col\u00b7legi Escorial in Vic, wrote us this e-mail sharing her experiences and thoughts at the school and in Catalonia so far<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hello,
\nI am a conversational assistant in L\u00b4Escorial,Vic. This large school has a playschool, a primary school and a secondary school. I teach students from primary and secondary school.<\/span><\/p>\n

In primary school I teach 5th and 6th class. We often do projects on different topics such as Autumn, Halloween and Christmas. The students are very visual so I use flash cards and posters to help them with new vocabulary. We also play games and role-plays, this helps with their spoken English. The students are enthusiatic and make me laugh a lot. Now that I have sworn my allegiance to “Barca” football team I am accepted as one of their own! I would like to raise the point that I feel the school hours are too long for children this age. Most adults in Ireland work from 9-5 and so do the children here. I feel that these long hours would be a test to any-ones\u00b4attention span and that they have a part to play in behavioral issues that may occur in the classroom.<\/span><\/p>\n

In secondary school I teach 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th year. I do a variety of activities with the students such as: role-plays,reading,debates,conversational games,acting and more. The level of English varies from class to class and I thrive on this as it adds a challange for me. I enjoy teaching the secondary students it\u00b4s not always easy but it\u00b4s great when you see them making an effort to improve their English. I understand that for them it is difficult to feel confident speaking in front of their classmates, but I think we have moved over that hurdle, and now its difficult to get them to stay quiet! They remind me of when I was in school: moody,prone to tantrums,image conscience etc, but at the bottom of it just in need of reasurrance and support. I am learning a lot by teaching these students and I don\u00b4t have any grey hairs yet so that\u00b4s a good sign!<\/span><\/p>\n

I can\u00b4t heap enough praise on the teachers in this school. I was a slow learner in school and this meant that I was over looked by my teachers. This didn\u00b4t help and in fact lead me to become disinterested and resentful. When I was 16 I moved school and the teachers in my new school helped me greatly. They took a personal interest in me and encouraged me. They got to know me as a person and always did their best for me. If I didn\u00b4t understand something in class, they helped me. This school is full of teachers with the above traits. It\u00b4s a pleasure to be surrounded by people like this and I aspire to learn from them. The teachers have made a huge effort to include me and welcome me into their school. I know that should I need their help, they would do so willingly and with great intent. This is a great school, and with teachers like this, I have no doubt of it\u00b4s continued success.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am throughly enjoying my experience as a conversation assistant. It\u00b4s a great opportunity and I\u00b4m going to make the most of it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kind regards,<\/span><\/p>\n

Alison<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alison Watkins, conversational assistant at Col\u00b7legi Escorial in Vic, wrote us this e-mail sharing her experiences and thoughts at the school and in Catalonia so far<\/p>\n

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Hello, I am a conversational assistant in L\u00b4Escorial,Vic. This large school has a playschool, a primary school and a secondary school. I teach students from primary and secondary school.<\/p>\n

In primary school I teach 5th and 6th class. We often do projects on different topics such as Autumn, Halloween and Christmas. The students are very visual so I use flash cards and posters to help them with new vocabulary. We also play games and role-plays, this helps with their spoken English. The students are enthusiatic and make me laugh a lot. Now that I have sworn my allegiance to “Barca” football team I am accepted as one of their own! I would like to raise the point that I feel the school hours are too long for children this age. Most adults in Ireland work from 9-5 and so do the children here. I feel that these long hours would be a test to any-ones\u00b4attention span and that they have a part to play in behavioral issues that may occur in the classroom.<\/p>\n

In secondary school I teach 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th year. I do a variety of activities with the students such as: role-plays,reading,debates,conversational games,acting and more. The level of English varies from class to class and I thrive on this as it adds a challange for me. I enjoy teaching the secondary students it\u00b4s not always easy but it\u00b4s great when you see them making an effort to improve their English. I understand that for them it is difficult to feel confident speaking in front of their classmates, but I think we have moved over that hurdle, and now its difficult to get them to stay quiet! They remind me of when I was in school: moody,prone to tantrums,image conscience etc, but at the bottom of it just in need of reasurrance and support. I am learning a lot by teaching these students and I don\u00b4t have any grey hairs yet so that\u00b4s a good sign!<\/p>\n

I can\u00b4t heap enough praise on the teachers in this school. I was a slow learner in school and this meant that I was over looked by my teachers. This didn\u00b4t help and in fact lead me to become disinterested and resentful. When I was 16 I moved school and the teachers in my new school helped me greatly. They took a personal interest in me and encouraged me. They got to know me as a person and always did their best for me. If I didn\u00b4t understand something in class, they helped me. This school is full of teachers with the above traits. It\u00b4s a pleasure to be surrounded by people like this and I aspire to learn from them. The teachers have made a huge effort to include me and welcome me into their school. I know that should I need their help, they would do so willingly and with great intent. This is a great school, and with teachers like this, I have no doubt of it\u00b4s continued success.<\/p>\n

I am throughly enjoying my experience as a conversation assistant. It\u00b4s a great opportunity and I\u00b4m going to make the most of it.<\/p>\n

Kind regards,<\/p>\n

Alison<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.escolacristiana.org\/pac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.escolacristiana.org\/pac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.escolacristiana.org\/pac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.escolacristiana.org\/pac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.escolacristiana.org\/pac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.escolacristiana.org\/pac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.escolacristiana.org\/pac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.escolacristiana.org\/pac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.escolacristiana.org\/pac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.escolacristiana.org\/pac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}