That’s the middle of October and it is time to continue our studying. We had 6 weeks of teaching practice, unfortunately less than in the previous year. As I want to become a teacher I really enjoy my time at school. At first I have doubts whether my level of German language is enough or not. I didn’t have such problems when I had practice in English, I even didn’t think that they can occur. But when my teacher told me that I had to speak German all the lesson long, I understood that I couldn’t comply with these requirements. So the first problem is that my level of German language is so-to-say worse as I want it to be. It doesn’t matter if you teach 6-7 grades, but how can we teach 11 grades? I had the 9th grade, in the beginning I tried to stick to German but unsuccessfully. Then I managed to do it. The second problem concerns the age of my pupils. They are 14-15 years old, so they “enjoy” life and learning has a very small place in their everyday activities. That’s why I spend much time on motivation. For many pupils the 9th form is the last year of learning German, so they do no home assignments, don’t work in class, sometimes they can even say that I should just accept their attitude and give up my attempts to join them to the classwork. But the majority of my students were conscious. They are easy to get in touch with and we get along well together. The third problem is our journal. We must keep a diary, that means to take notes about our class, who they are, how they communicate with each other, to analyze the work of schoolteachers and of form mistress, work out lesson plans. And this diary contains the same information as the one in the previous year. As for me I just made a copy of the previous journal and filled in my new one. I’ve got excellent mark. What for do we need them? The fourth problem was our lesson plan. I don’t want to say that we shouldn’t make them. Detailed plans are really helpful. But the form ordered in our journals was very inconvenient neither for me nor foe my methodologist. Nevertheless there were more plusses than minuses.
