Overall Experience
When looking at my overall experience in Barcelona and, especially, my time at St. Paul’s, I feel a lot of things including gratefulness to the school for accepting me in, sadness that my experience is coming to an end, and excitement to use my new found knowledge in my future classrooms. This school has taught me that there are a lot of differences between the schools in America I’ve known all my life and schools abroad that I am just now getting introduced to. Students at St. Paul’s are, plainly put, thirsting for knowledge every day when they come in and really try to make the most of each day. This has tested me as a teacher because I have had to change my teaching style to match their learning styles, not to mention molding my teaching around the language barrier. The teaching style of my cooperating teacher also varies from what most of my previous cooperating teachers have had before because he focuses on direct instruction heavily in each lesson and gives the s