Barcelona Adventures

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

At St. Paul’s school, my involvement is surprisingly similar to my placements in the schools I student taught in the states. I am responsible for solo lessons and helping the students with their learning during the day. I am responsible for monitoring students during recess on certain days as well. However, despite these similarities, my experiences at St. Paul’s have been very different than those in the US in many way. The students are as eager to know more about me as I am to know more about them which is exciting. The students are thirsting for knowledge in every aspect of their education, they treat their education as more of a privilege than a requirement. The teachers at St. Paul’s also have quite a few similarities as those I have been associated with in the US. The urge to help students become successful members of society seems universal as I look at these different teachers I have come into contact with. The teachers at St. Paul have also formed a commu