For the last four weeks I taught at Good Hope Seminary for Girls. It was the third school that I have temped at this year and I really enjoyed my stay. It's always a little tricky to balance my everyday life with the extra work (which is why I haven't blogged in a while), but it's really worth it and I always find that I learn so much.
The great thing about temp work is that you feel like you are giving a series of master classes. This is mainly because you are coming into the school with no preconceived ideas about the students and you usually don't have to teach them from scratch. So it's a fresh approach and I have found that the students respond really well. While I was at Good Hope, I was teaching mainly group recorder classes. It also coincided with my good friend, Susan McAlpine's trip to Cape Town. Since she is currently completing her final year at Amsterdam Conservatory, majoring in the recorder it was the perfect opportunity for the girls to be have a workshop with her.
Susan came and did some really interesting workshops with the grade 10 and 12 learners focusing on alternative and advance techniques. Each workshop ended with a fun game at the end and I even got to learn a few things and got involved with the game.
Here are a few pictures from the workshop:
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| Meeting the learners |
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| Checking intonation |
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| Listening to each learner individually |
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| Playing together |
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| Susan demonstrating techniques |
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