Third Teaching Practicum

THIRD TEACHING CLASS!

Experience about my third teaching class. The topic for this class was school objects using the grammatical rules (It is not and they are not)

In this class I felt more confident, I did not felt nervous like in the previos classes that I have taught. This class I started by teaching the second have of the hour. At the beginning I felt, and also teacher and classmates told me that I look like despirited, but then I look excited when teaching the class.

I taugth to kids the part of the practice and I felt that it was good because they understood the different instructions. We know that in every class they are going to be different activities that do not worked well. This happened maybe because of the lesson plans that we have made. And it is important that teacher let us know, so we can fixed it out. We made some activities that were not related to the lesson plan that we suppose to make. But anyway the activities work well with the kids. I also enjoyed the activities that I made with them.

Then I continue with the stage of production. I think that this part is a little bit challenging for kids because I have to make them speak a little bit. I felt excited to listen to them saying some words. They get the idea of the activity and they made the mini oral presentation.

The last part was the wrap up. I think that everybody enjoyed this activity. I sing a song called "London Bridge". The kids enjoyed the song and also they personalize the song because the same song was use for the warm up and the wram up as I mentioned before. So they made there own song; they really like it. I really enjoyed this part because I could sing and made some movements to encourage them to do it too.

 In each class we have fun and I try to improve the different this that teacher and classmates told me to improve. I felt very excited when I'm doing this because is something that I really like. Certainly we had so much fun with our classmates and also our teacher.

Second Teaching Practicum

SECOND TEACHING CLASS!

This is my second teaching class. I had new experiences when teaching the kids.

When I started to give the class, first I felt a little bit nervous maybe because I was thinking that it was going to be my first evaluation. Anyway I started bad because I forgot to to the warm up. So my beginning was not good because I forgot to do it. Then I started with the presentation of the topic. And it was good how I presented the family members, but the problem was that I did not presented the vocabulary with the pictures. Maybe doing that the students will have a better comprehension of the vocabulary. However, I notice that they understand and recognize the vocabulary.

The second activity that I made was a game called "Memory Game". I made this to have fun with kids but at the same time to help them to recognize the vocabulary and also, to encourage them to repeat the different Family Members. I notice that they enjoyed the activity.

This class was about reading and for that reason I tried to do something different to tell them the mini story about family members. I represented the different family members that appear in story by making some pictures like puppets. I was telling them the story and at the same time showing to them the different characters, so they can understand better  the story and they can identify the family members. I think that this activity worked well.

The second class that I have taught was totally different, I enjoy the class with the kids. I tried to improved some of the aspects that teacher and classmates told me to do it. I know that nothing is perfect, but I'm trying to do my best to help the students to have a meaningful learning. In each class I try that students enjoy but also learn. With my partner we tried that children feel comfortable. 

Something that we noticed is that kids like to have a recognition. For the reason, in the class we bring some stickers. Kids really like it because they were stars. So the students that finish the activity have one star. We noticed that they enjoyed the part because thet tried to finish quickly to have more stars.

First Teaching Practicum

FIRST TEACHING CLASS!

Hello everybody, today I will tell you about the experience that I have had in my first teaching class. at the beginning I felt a little bit nervous, but then everything went well.

I consider that to be the first practice we were not bad, I feel that we develop the class in a good way. I felt very good to see that children were happy and motivated to learn. A totally different environment live with them. I should mention that always in activities that we develop there are good and bad aspects to be taken into account to improve such as failures. I will let you know some of the aspects that I have to improved.

ASPECTS THAT I HAVE TO IMPROVED

1. Shhh: I make this sound when children were making a lot of noice. I know that I don't have to make the sound to get their attention. Solution: Something that maybe can work with kids is just to be quiet, in that way they will understand that teacher is waiting for them to be silent and pay attencion to the class. 

2. Write examples: I make one activity in which kids have to speak with their classmates, but it was hard for them to understand what I was saying. for example they were using " I like..." but it was hard because they didn't understand the structure. 

Solution: I should write or explain the structure of the sentence that I will use, in the way children will get the idea and is not going to be hard for them to follow the instructions.

3. Attention to the needs kids have: in the middle of the class one student was bothering another one. The kid told me what was happening, but I didn't do anything in the situation. Maybe because I didn't know how to tell him in English. 

Solution: we have to be very patient with kids and we must pay attention in the needs they have because if don't do it, They are going to feel that we don't care about their problems. So we have to go and check what is happening.

These are some of the aspects that I have to improved when teaching a class. It is important to have feedback because in the way we can make the things different and we can find different ways to solve some situations that happen in the classroom. I know that I have to taken into account the different aspects that teacher or classmates tell me to be better and is not good to take the opinion of other person in a wrong way. I know that we are human and we make mistakes, but in the way we can observe and analice the things that we are making wrong. I'm not saying that everything is going to be perfect, but at least we can solve some things and we have the opportunity to improved it.