Feb 5th, 2018

Mentoring Journal

 

Entry #1:  First face-to-face meeting; discuss first evaluated lesson

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• Asked Mentee what he knew about the students. He mentioned they were level 2. He was not able to say anything about what they CAN DO.

• Talked about his planned activity – “Guess Who”. Went over how activity would go. Mentee was going to show:

 

She has blonde hair.

 

Does she have blonde hair?

 

He would have to have explained verb conjugation. I suggested keeping the answer/statement with verb "do" so that he didn’t need to do the verb conjugation:

She does have blonde hair.

Does she have blonde hair?

 

He liked that. He smiled and seemed happy.

 

• We talked about when I would observe him at the house of friendship. Went over the schedule.

• He asked me why I was doing the master’s. I told him my story. He was said it was interesting. I asked him why he was in the TESL program. He said that he didn’t want to teach, he didn’t have a passion for teaching. He wanted to prove to himself and others that he can do it. That he’s smart. He mentioned he was a practical person. Maybe more suited for the army. But he wanted to do this. He had dropped out of the program last year. But this year he returned and is giving teaching a second chance. He is proud of knowing a lot. He reads all the books for his classes in detail. And he says he knows the grammar course book deeply – that he even corrected the teacher in class. 

• We decided to meet again Wednesday for 30min to discuss the lesson plan he created. He will send it to me via email today. We will discuss it on Wednesday.