viernes, 30 de octubre de 2015

Second Teaching Practice (Third Period)


Describe

On this class, I introduced the topic "be used to". First I started with a whispering game, students made two lines and the last ones received a sentence, they had to whisper the sentence to the one in front of them until the last student who had to write te sentence on the board. I continued with grammar for "be used to". After that I continued with a controlled fill in the blans where they had to write the correct form of the "be used to" for each sentence, then i had a speaking semi controlled activity for them to talk about the things they are used to and I ended my class with a semi controlled fill in the blanks where students had to create the "be used to"of some sentences already stipulated.

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I could see that students understood the topic very easily, they were able to complete all the activities in a proer way. Students were asking a lot and that tells me that they are interested in class and that they really want to learn, after clearing their doubts durin the grammar part the rest was easy for them and the activities were developed successfully and students got a meaningful learning.

The attention of the students and the development of the class was excellent (for me) and I had no complains from my tutor when receiving feed back, so the class was great and so was students behavior. I generally try to develop a lot of RAPPORT with the students, talking with them and making them feel comfortable around me. I think that the students feel comfy with me around and they are able to ask and understand everything when I teach.

In the future I will continue working in the way I have been doing it since I like having a good relationship with my students, I given them confidence so they can feel free to ask what they need to know and clear all the doubts they have.

viernes, 23 de octubre de 2015

First Teaching Practice (Third Period)


Describe

On this class, I had the students practice quantifiers and indefinite pronouns. First I started with Snow Ball Fight, students who were hit by the the ball had to answer some questions about last class, then I continued with a fill in activity for indefinite pronoouns which was controlled, then a matching activity about quantifiers that was controlled as well. I continued with a semi controlled activity for indefinite pronouns, and another semi controlled for the quantifiers, unfortunatelly time was not enough and I could not finish with the free activities which were speaking activities.

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It is hard for the students to apply their previous knowledge or maybe they felt shy because some of them freezed when developing the warm up. I think that it is hard for them or that they are shy because it was my first class with them. Later when the class was advancing, I noticed that they lost shyness (some of them) and the class started to be smoother-

There were no students making mess or not paying attention, all the students behaved well and the class was great. There are always students who do not talk much or participate much in class and I tried to make all of them participate. In general, I think that the class was OK and that students had a meaningful learning because of their attention.

In the future I will try to improve the timing of the activities because I think that was why I could not finish with all the activities I had for the students, I have to be a little more careful to end the activities and not give much time for them because that delays the other activities.