Day Three, Session 1

The first session of Day 3 didn’t start well because the room where we were supposed to be was occupied by nervous students preparing themselves for the state exam. So we were waiting and waiting until we got a key to “the most comfortable” classroom I’ve ever been to. The room was dark, without any windows and it looked like storage rather than a classroom – a perfect place for learning how to test! I took quite a comfortable chair and was looking forward to getting some information on designing and assessing tests because we, future teachers, will definitely need this skill but to my disappointment we got only unclear information about Thursday’s testing. On the one hand, I got to know a new method of assessing writing and speaking but on the other hand, was it necessary to spend the whole session on it? Did I really have to get up at 3.30 and travel 3 hours to get this information? The information that could have been easily sent by e-mail or discussed on the first day instead of teaching a non-linguistic skill, which nobody has given us any feedback on so far? Perhaps, I was expecting too much from the session and that was the problem…