In all fairness, I did try to be funny and attempted a ‘funny’ recorded version but it was even worse than the dry sarcastic but informative me that ended up recording this, my second and final attempt…
Despite the silliness, there were real reasons for me making this video for my students…
The concept was not my own but an idea of something that @Simcloughlin tried on a larger scale with his primary school students last year, only he did a far much better job. Probably goes to show how I ended up in Secondary with my somewhat limited believability and non-existent drama skills. I don’t think I will be pulling the wool over my student’s eyes.
The truth is, I simply wanted to make contact with my students as I won’t be with them in that particular lesson. First of all I genuinely wanted to congratulate them on doing so well in their last set of assessments, given they had only started Spanish in September and were getting levels 5/6 for reading with the AQA FCSE. Secondly, as it was a cover lesson, and i only see them once a fortnight, I couldn’t risk the students doing nothing, which is more possible in a cover lesson with a non-specialist, when they need to be learning the vocabulary and structures for their next lesson.
I do aim to communicate with the students more in this way, maybe I’ll quit the drama, but those who know me , know that I am very dry and sarcastic and maybe that does make me doing such a video funny… or maybe not #epicfail.
