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First time teachers

Today we got to practice teaching part of a lesson for the first time and to make things even more nerve wrecking real students were coming in to be our guinea pigs! Of course, by now it takes a lot more than teaching a lesson to new students to make me... ...full story at Loulogue

from Loulogue on Sun, Jul 20 2008

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