Third Teaching Practice (First Period)

February 26th, 2015 was the day of my last class of this first period. First, i came to the classroom 15 minutes before for preparing the classroom and get out all the material i was going to use for that class. That day i only was going to develop activities for helping them to review the previous contents for their partials.I started with the warm up PHONE CALL they had to see a sentences i had in a piece of paper and then they were going to tell his/her next classmate the sentences until the last student got it the complete sentence and he/she had to write. The group who had more sentences correct they was going to be the winner. After that i made two very controlled exercises about fill in the blanks i gave them around 3 to 4 minutes to complete each of them and then we checked the answers. The following step was a listening because i could not develop the two i prepared for them that was not enough time, but i realized they understood well the topics previous to the partial test. After the listening, i made them to do a conversation based in the listenig they heard.

Pair Observation I

The pair observation was to me another beautiful experience because i could realized some ideas i did not see before to perform my classes. I liked the warm up that william did because he used the web tool ardora to create this matching activity creating pairs. He was nervous but he tried to did the best way as possible and he developed activities according to the topic and activities which involved speaking. i liked he wante to use the cd player but this one did not work so he moved to another activity. I could observe he gave good and excellent directions for them and they responde good to his instructions. He made a grammar mistake but the students did not realize of it. While he was developing the las activity, the students were sharing their answers about some questions he put on the wall, the students disscused them and he moved from one group to one another. and during the activity some students called me teacher and asked me some meanings about some words and questions they did not understood well. Thus, i think my partner William did his best in the last class he had with those students, and he only need to changed the seating arrangement and something related about pronuonciation and control of nervous.

Second Teaching Practice (First Period)

That day, i was nervous because after my first feedback i wante to fix all of those mistakes i made in the first practice. I started the class doing an activity called CHARADES i did with  a lot words but my failed was the words were not connected with the topic. After that i developed the presentation of my topic that was the closed questions with the simple present tense. I did a variation with the explanation, for example first i showed some examples how they could make the questions and how they have to answer and then i made an excersice and after that checked the answer they had and finally i fnish with a review of the explanation. I was able to answer every doubt that the students could have about the topic and they got confortable asking me. because the time wasn't enough, i could not developed listenings but i performed with them many activities of speaking. That was an incredible experience thata thay because when i had my feedback i realized that i improved some things that made wrong in the first practice and kept and improved the things i did well.

First Teaching Practice (First Period)

Friday, February 20th was my first time in the basic group of Teacher Ovidio Torres. First i got to the classroom with a lot expectations about the group and the way i could to cover the content, but i was afraid because it would be my first time with collegers. After to went into the classroom i started to give them the pieces of papers i got for their names, then i talked with some students traying to get along with them and feel confortable with the group. I started the class with tha warm up called SHARADES.

The development of this activity was a little bit different i imagined before to prepare the class because i imagined more active and the students were to passive for doing it, but they participated well. after that i did the presentation and they got the idea of the topic. When they had questions they asked me and i was able to asnwer them. I only performed two activities because the time was not enough but after every activity i checked their answers for knowing if they understood clearly.

I felt more confortable 5 minutes after started the class and my nervousness flew away and i fell right now i  am going to perform following classes better than this. the feedback of my tutor was the perfect help i need for knowing what i need to improve and what i need to keep, but was an amazing and incredible experience that help to realize that i love my major and i want to work giving classes as soon as possible.

English it is not only a language but also it is culture and i love my major.