It was challenging. But I also felt the satisfaction of learning and improving as a teacher. Besides , I definitely recommend Module 2 before Module 1, it will help better with the exam.

As a first time teacher, it was a really steep learning curve. It turned out to be a lot more difficult and a lot more work than what I had anticipated - but it was well worth the effort. Thank you Muge and Simge for (gently) whipping me into shape!

It was a great experience to improve professionally and learn about new techniques that I will include in my lessons. The best part of the course were tutors, always very supportive and ready to help if needed.

I though the course was very helpful

As a primary teacher in a Turkish private school, I know that the move from face-to-face teaching to virtual teaching has forced us to change many of the things we were doing before, for example, provide more concrete examples of the things we expect our students to do. I believe my group would have benefited from more direct instruction and guidance prior to submitting lesson plans and practice teaching. We were told to follow outlines on how to do our lesson plans, but when we believed we set up the lesson plan according to the example, we were criticized for not following the correct form when we thought it was a replica of the example provided. No one ever checked in on us during the course to see if we needed help or if we were doing well. A more positive approach and more understanding for the people taking the course would have been appreciated instead of just negatively criticizing us immediately and threatening, warning that we will fail the course. We were told to watch the videos and we expected that was how we must do the TPs, but when we followed those examples, we were told we were wrong. It would have been helpful, in advance, to have rubrics of what was expected. The Cambridge approach seems to be the opposite of how we teach in my IB PYP school, where we help and nurture students to be successful. The Cambridge approach seems to be to give an assignment and expect the student to figure out how to do it and criticize them when it turns out they did not understand it. Sink or swim. Perhaps in face-to-face lessons, where there is a relationship between the teacher and student, this is more effective, but virtually, it made things difficult. The whole course was very stressful.