CELTA: Day 1 Completed!

Well, I have successfully made it through the first day of the CELTA course! Today involved:

• Several activities to help us students get to know one another
• A Urdu language lesson to demonstrate basic language teaching techniques
• Discussion of classroom rapport fundamentals
• Basic lesson prep session
• 20-minute evaluated classroom teaching practice session

Our group consists of eleven individuals (including myself) from a wide variety of backgrounds.