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 Intro I/II assessment anyone?Moderators: Moderators Jump to page : 1 Now viewing page 1 [25 messages per page] | View previous thread :: View next thread |
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| Hi, this may be an embarrassing request, but: I'm in teacher training in Sweden, and since we're practically the only teacher training group in sparsely populated Scandinavia, there is no chance for us future candidates to volunteer in assessments as students before it gets down to serious business  So... after what our teacher told us, we have, of course, a rough idea of what it will (or at least: could) be like, but in order to calm the nerves and to satisfy the curiosity, I'd very much appreciate it if some of you who have come through this 'baptism of fire' would be willing to share his/her experience... Thanks for you leniency  | |||
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Expert Yogi Posts: 8442      | Hi quetzal and welcome. Not a terribly Swedish sounding screen name but since my knowledge of Swedish mostly comes from reading the Ikea catalogue...   Congrats on getting ready for assessment! I just did mine (and passed - whew!) and it was a great experience. Volunteering as a student at an assessment is indeed good practice but you can get a lot of that by doing peer teaching or setting yourself up a mock assessment. It might be easier for me to help if I knew a bit more. How many are in your group? Are your mentor teachers also your assessors? Will you be assessed at your own or someone else's studio? Will your regular students be the volunteer students? All of this makes a difference because a lot of the learning I found was figuring out how to work in a studio new to me, being prepared for students whose bodies and capacities I didn't know etc. If you will be working with students you don't know, the best prep is subbing for other teachers. Going into a class "cold"and teaching only by what you can see and not what you already remember about people is wonderful preparation. Will you have to travel to get to the assessment? If so, try to get there at least one day ahead to adjust to a different bed, find and try to get a class or practice at the studio. Try to work out your eating and rest cycles ahead of time as well. I had a two hour time difference to deal with but it was ok. I think the best advice I have came from my 25 year old son. He said that if you trust that your teachers have prepared you well, you will be ok  | ||
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| Hi tourist, thanks for the warm welcome and your readiness to share some of your experience! As for the screen name, I'm sorry to disappoint you - I admit it's not very Swedish, but I'm not very Swedish either (just an Ikea-land immigrant), so please forgive me for not picking something more fancy like "Trolleljungby" or "Gnösjö" or the like To give you an idea of the situation here: How many are in your group? We're twelve, from all over the country plus some from Norway - which makes it difficult to meet out of training weekends in order to practice together or do peer teaching. Are your mentor teachers also your assessors? No. We'll have three assessors from different European countries. Will you be assessed at your own or someone else's studio? It'll probably be at some other place, but in the same town. Will your regular students be the volunteer students? Nope. The benefits of subbing in order to prepare for the assessment situation are obvious, but then again you have to think of Sweden as a kind of developing country when it comes to (Iyengar) yoga, so for most of the participants in the teacher training subbing is not a realistic option (plus the very few existing Iyengar studios won't even let you assist unless you have passed Intro I) if you trust that your teachers have prepared you well, you will be ok Oh yes, how true... *sigh* I guess I'm just a bit uneasy (somewhat ridiculous: still months to go!) because I can't imagine what the setup and the atmosphere will be like - if it'll be formal and rigorous like an examination in university or rather "performance"-like or whatever. Um... I'm aware that it's actually impossible to anticipate the situation (too many variables involved), so my request for information/experience might be somewhat inappropriate. Anyway: if there's anything you'd be willing to share, I'd be dying to hear it | |||
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