lunes, 21 de septiembre de 2015

Second Teaching Practice (Second Period)


Describe

On this second practice I reviewed and made students practice simple past vs present perfec. First, I started with a warm up that help them review about last class, comparatives and superlatives adverbs, I made them speak about that. Then, I told them to choose some sentences from the fill in the blanks that were in present perfect and they had to convert them into past. I continued the class with a fill in the blanks, they had to choose whether to use simple past or present perfect in some sentences. After that, I made them ask some questions, I projected them on the board and they walked around asked the questions to their classmates and then they shared who had done those things they asked. Later, I told them to ask "How has this week been?" and shared later. To finish the class they wrote about what they had done in all their lives.

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Students needed to improve their use of present perfect, that is why I focused the activities more on that subject, I could notice that indeed they needed a reinforcement. As they like to speak, the activities were focused on speaking activities because I also noticed that in adition they learned faster while speaking.

The class was normal in terms of attention, this. time students did not ask like the previous class, I think that it was because of the confidence level I portrayed at them, different from the first class which I was very nervous. They quickly started realizing that they needed to improve using present perfect and got the idea very fast.

In the future I will try to improve even more and to get more connected with the students, I need to improve RAPPORT and also they way that I give instructions, I was told by the teacher that I have to use more authority during the class.

sábado, 12 de septiembre de 2015

First Teaching Practice (Second Period)


Describe

On this second practice I taught Comparative and Superlative Adverbs. The class was hard for me because of the students, they are already LICENCIADOS and it was very hard because they always asked and it was very hard for me to clear all their doubts when I was not even able to start explaining in a proper way, the teacher helped me and intervened a couple times because of the way students started questioning the class and grammar part; howerver, after all that, they seemed to understand the topic and the development of the class improved because of their participation.

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Students asked a lot because of their seriousness during classes, they are very picky with the information they receive and they want quality education and that is why they ask a lot and have many doubts.

Thanks to the many questions of the students, the got the topic quickly and it was easier when developing the practices, they worked fast and I did not detec any problem.

In the future I will try to calm my nerves, because of the students I have, it was very hard for me to teach calmly, I was very nervous and their questions made me more and more nervous.