#they have given me the vaguest prompt in the world for my presentation/microteach and i don’t even know if i’ll be presenting to actual
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I’m either doing this completely right or completely wrong and I have no idea which it is
#maybe applying to an esol job when i haven’t taught esol in 3 years and honestly wasn’t even good at it back then was not the move#they have given me the vaguest prompt in the world for my presentation/microteach and i don’t even know if i’ll be presenting to actual#students or to the panel. not that it really makes a difference either way as i think i’ll be doing the same shit regardless#but AAAHHHHHHHHH#i also have no concept anymore of how anything takes. i’ve spent the past year teaching gcse english in 3 hour blocks#i just plan about ten thousand things per week and assume that reasonably we’re probably going to get through four of them#i don’t know if what i’m planning to do here will take the 30 minutes i’ve been given or 2 hours#i also don’t know if a powerpoint is the move?? i never had powerpoints at my old tefl school#i went in there with a whiteboard marker; my brain; a stack of worksheets and maybe a crossword or a fun video if i was lucky#oh GOD or one of those godawful old cds they used to have us use for the listening activities lol. they were the worst#… maybe i should plan this as one of my oldschool whiteboard-only lessons. is that more or less impressive than making a powerpoint?#they seem to be expecting a presentation but it goes against everything i know#like the people who trained me drilled it into my head ‘do NOT write the vocabulary word until they’ve got the pronunciation down’#and also ‘do NOT let them know at the start of the lesson whether it’s going to be a speaking or writing lesson bc they Will shut down#if it’s the one they don’t like’#but then my pgce is like ‘you need aims and objectives in your powerpoint or we will kill you :)’#WHAT DO I DOOOOOO#i mean; what makes sense to me is to structure it as a recap of lexis/vocab. 4 words; let’s recap our spelling and pronunciation#and make sure we can differentiate between them#then focus the rest of the session on life skills and logistics and end it with a discussion#but i don’t have a fucking clue#before you say ‘do what you’re most comfortable with!’ my brother in christ i am not comfortable with Any Of This#i’m feeling like i should turn down the interview because honestly i am so lost with this. i don’t see how they can hire me#i’m way too stubborn though and my toxic trait is that i think i’m capable of absolutely anything#yes i’m insecure as hell yes i think i’m the god of this world. we exist#personal
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