TEACHING VYL

Teaching VYLs seemed to be a really tough challenge at the beginning of  my practices; it presented me a big and different world that I didn't know and that I had to discover by my own. During the first weeks, I had to adapt my schedule to new routines, and I started to burn the candle at both ends as many other people has done before, I think; at first it was really tiring and I knew I had to find a balance to keep on working. Finally, I found out that doing the right things at the right moment was all what I had to do to manage everything and don't  become crazy. There were some things that helped me understand that; those things were the presentations that my classmates and I had to perform some weeks ago. I learned to manage groups of children through making funny activities, implementing different techniques in class, and ,the most important, enjoying being with them. I tried some activities shown in class to keep children interested in what you are teaching to them, and I'm glad to say that many of them worked very good. I realized that it's wonderful to see the smile of the children when you are teaching them something they are keen on.  Although, sometimes it didn't result as I expected, but what matters is that I'm learning by doing, 

When something doesn't go the way we think it has to, we tend to think that we cannot do things that seem to be out of this world for us, but we have to bite the bullet, and we will see that everything is possible if we believe we can do it. Teaching is not a matter of doing something because you have to, but it is a matter of loving what you do.  So, be patient, love what you do, and if you're teaching VYLs now, enjoy as much as you can being with them instead of fighting all the time against your own thoughts about your teaching.