Teaching Practicum l - Third Reflection

My last experience

 

My last class was on February 14^th, 2017. I started the class by greeting my students; then, I started my class with a warm up activity called “pass the dice” in which they had a lot of fun while playing. Then, I split the group by using numbers in that way they could interact with someone different. After that, I presented the grammar point by using one conversation that was on the book. I also tried to include a short listening. After that, I explained the grammar by using a big chart. I could notice they had lots of questions related to the topic; I tried to clarify some doubts at the end.

After the grammar explanation, students were developing some activities. For example, a fill in the blanks in which they had to use the correct preposition. The second activity was a matching activity, and before starting the activities I gave them examples, and at the end, they shared their answers. My last activity was a chain speaking activity “Where on Earth are you?” I think this kind of activity was helpful for them because they could express their ideas, they were interacting in couples, and they presented to the class.

As a conclusion, I really liked my last experience as a real teacher because I could notice they enjoyed every activity as much as I did. On the other hand, they themselves could see the importance of the language points discussed in class and the satisfaction that most of them showed when using them. Overall, I learned a lot from them and I am pretty sure they could learn a little bit from me.

Teaching Practicum l - Second Class

My Second experience was on February 7^th, 2017. This time was a little different because I was not nervous at all. I started my class by developing a warm up activity ‘’ninja hands.’’ They understood the activity, but before starting the game I modeled an example. After that I made a review about adjectives and nationalities, so I pasted a big chart on the white board. I tried to explain the chart as clear as possible; then I gave them pieces of paper that contained the ‘’BINGO GAME,’’ in which students had to mark the nationalities with an ‘’X’’ just if they had it in the paper.

In my second activity, I asked them to open their books, but some of them did not have books yet, so I made groups of three, so they could share and work at the same time. My third activity was a speaking activity in which they had to practice a dialogue. At the end I chose some of them randomly to perform in front of us, I think they did a pretty good job because they were willing to participate; also they asked me about the words they did not know.

My last activity, was ‘’who is your famous person?’’ It was a speaking activity in which I tried to include famous people, so my students could describe by using details, adjectives, nationalities. I think they had so much fun trying to guess who the famous person was.

Finally, I can say that I really enjoyed this class, and while I was teaching I felt comfortable. On the other hand, there are many aspects to improve that I will try to do it in my future classes.

Teaching Practicum l - First Class

My first experience as a teacher it was on Thursday February, 2nd 2017. My first Group was Basic English and the topic was WH- questions with verb ''BE'', at the beginning of the class I was very nervous, but when I started the class my nerves disappear very quickly because my students were nice during the whole class. The atmosphere of the class was appropriate since they, with their good attitude helped me a lot to develop the activities. I felt very motivated while I was teaching; also I tried to give clear directions so that students could understand better. The problem that I could detect is that, the girls are very shy, so in my next class I will try to involve them even more so that they can participate.

  

Finally, my first experience as a teacher it was nice because I enjoyed while I was teaching. I hope my next class will be better, so my students can learn more.