NALC first time

I was not able to post about my first experience at the NALC, so I wanted to take a moment to share my experience. The first time I went, I remember being really nervous about whether I was going to be well-equipped to teach the lesson. I've never been the best at grammar, and I was nervous I may need to teach something that even I didn't understand. Fortunately, that was not the case. Although I did  not have much time to review the lesson plans before the sessions, I was able to quickly glance over them to see what we needed to cover. My first student was an older black woman who was originally from Nigeria. She had an incredible faith, and we enjoyed talking about her beliefs and her family. We went over different vocabulary and spellings of words, which she had a pretty good grasp of. She also did a lot of work on the computer to work on her computer skills, which appeared to have improven since her last session. The next student was a white man in his forties. Because of his age and his race, it seemed he was just an average American man, so I was surprised when I learned his reading/comprehension abilities were at a 4th grade level. I could not believe it! He was in a GED class, so we worked on some of the word problems for math that he couldn't understand and went over some reading comprehension exercises. He seemed to learn a lot during the lesson, so I was really happy about that.