Carla Keeping Us Awake

This is my first "guest post" on this wonderful blog and I shall start by positing my favorite video from our 20 days of training at MDS. Carla was (and is) such a bad teacher that most of us (myself included) had a hard time staying awake. So to wake us up she used to tell pointless stories and mimic barnyard animal (or fowl) sounds. Here is an example:

Now a final note about Carla. She can't teach. We wrote about it before (check other posts), but really, she is such a bad teacher it needs another mention...I am not really sure why she even got the job at MDS (perhaps Reggie saw something in her no one else did...who knows). Just because you seem to know and understand certain concepts and ideas does not mean you can teach them...period. Carla needs to understand this. For two weeks we sat there listening as she read to us from training manuals...as if we were preschool children or something. At least preschool children get to listen to interesting stories, all we had were boring tales of scaffolding and confined spaces. Carla, if you're reading this, I suggest you enroll yourself in a teacher training program. Here is a good one:

Canada College TESOL Teacher Training Course

At least if you take an onsite course they will actually be able to teach you how to be an effective teacher...and that does not mean reading from books for eight hours per day. Seriously.

Plus she had the audacity to tell us that since MDS is a certified college she had to get herself certified as well...as a teacher! Yeah, right! She said something about getting a "life experience" degree...hahahaha!