A Day in the Life of a CELTA Trainer

A flat out day. Really. Up at 6.15 and did 2 hrs of marking assignments and organised the day's timetable before leaving for school at 8.45 - half an hour later than usual. 9.30 - 9.45 was checking the 3 trainees were ok for their lessons in the afternoon. 10.00 - 1pm was mid-course 1-1 tutorials with each of the 6 trainees in our group. My group was fine, albeit I have two weak trainees. My co-trainer had one trainee in tears and another who had marked herself 'above standard' for all criteria and had to be helped to be more realistic. 1.00 to 1.45 was meant to be lunch - not a chance!! I was helping to set up the class, getting the aircon on, finding the lost register, chasing trainees to get into the class to teach/observe, giving out observation tasks to the observing trainees, and making sure I had everything ready to observe the 3 x 40' lessons. 1.45 - 4pm observing the classes, writing up feedback and marking their lesson plans simultaneously. 4.10 - 4.30 chatting to my colleague about the classes taught and discussing grades and double marking the written assignments we'd discussed in detail yesterday. 4.30 to 5.15 verbal feedback on the afternoon's classes and the giving of the finished written feedback and marked lesson plans. Then 45 mins prep for the 3 lessons for tomorrow. Finally, giving back the first written assignment with instructions to read our feedback tonight and ask us tomorrow about any resubmissions. Phew!! Then from 6.15 - 7.30 catching my breath and photocopying things for tomorrow. Left school at 7.30 and met Bb in the Korean for dinner. Now in bed. Alarm set for 6.00am to get up and mark assignments before going into school at 8.00am. Their money's worth? I reckon so!

My blip's a detail of the serving hatch in the Korean restaurant.