Jessica Du: Primary Task

My experience as a peer tutor for Mr. Easey’s sheltered careers class was great. It was a new and different experience for me. Having to be able to see and somewhat experience the life of being a teacher and helping/teaching a student something new every day was a great feeling to have and carry around. There were many tasks that I had and many roles that I played in the classroom. The most satisfying experience that I had as a peer tutor was, been given the chance to be able to teach and run the class when the teacher was absent, and the feeling of success it gave me. I had a chance to be in the teacher’s shoes and experience the life of being a teacher. Standing in front of the classroom and being able to teach the students, having them to be able to look up to me as a person they can come to for help gave me a feeling of success and happiness that I can help them, and teach them something they did not know.
In a classroom full of students, a great deal of stress can build up, especially if English is not the student’s first language. It gets difficult to communicate with one another which can make it hard when the teacher and/or students are trying to communicate or work together. A situation when humour was used as an appropriate way of reducing stress in the classroom was when Mr. Easey is teaching the class. Majority of the students speak English as their second language, so when Mr. Easey is teaching the class and trying to explain the lesson and assignments, sometimes the students do not understand. This builds stress and frustration. A way that Mr. Easey teaches the class is by telling jokes that relate to the lesson and using examples with funny stories and/or actions. This helps by getting the students full attention and letting them see what the teacher is saying in different ways with a little laugh and discussion with the class.