I’m a teacher in training and in my internship this year I’m teaching first years (12 years old in my country). It’s actually so funny and interesting to me that they often ask me questions from a perspective I would’ve never thought about, just because they’re working with novel and limited information. I didn’t experience that at all when teaching year 3 or year 5 because they’re less of a ‘clean slate’.
Excuse my ignorance but, first years of what? Like school ever? 12 seems pretty late to start, if that’s the case what does their life and education look like before then?
I really love what you take away from that experience though. It’s amazing because we really are always learning, and anyone can teach us something. If you remember any of them and feel like sharing I’d be curious to hear them!
I’m a teacher in training and in my internship this year I’m teaching first years (12 years old in my country). It’s actually so funny and interesting to me that they often ask me questions from a perspective I would’ve never thought about, just because they’re working with novel and limited information. I didn’t experience that at all when teaching year 3 or year 5 because they’re less of a ‘clean slate’.
Excuse my ignorance but, first years of what? Like school ever? 12 seems pretty late to start, if that’s the case what does their life and education look like before then?
I really love what you take away from that experience though. It’s amazing because we really are always learning, and anyone can teach us something. If you remember any of them and feel like sharing I’d be curious to hear them!