My English teacher last year, Ms. Hartcher, offered to let me be an assistant teacher this year in some English classes. Unfortunately, it turned out to be infeasible, so she redirected me to Ms. Egan.
I helped out in Ms. Egan's English class for the first time last Wednesday, period 3, originally one of my free study periods. It's an "extra English" class for year 11 students who are struggling with their GCSE English. Though I didn't find the 2-hour session particularly productive, especially since the main point that Ms. Egan put a lot of emphasis on was trying to get the students to 'answer the question' rather than going off and writing irrelevant things in their answer, after checking the work of a few of them, I realized that Ms. Egan's seemingly excessive emphasis of that point really was very appropriate, since the issue with the few essays I checked was exactly that: they weren't addressing the question.
I hope that in the coming weeks, I can work with Ms. Egan to supplement these year 11 students' usual English classes and drastically raise their level of ability in English. Since the current year 11s will be taking their Literature exams in November rather than the usual may, it is particularly important for them to improve their English in the coming weeks.
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