TWELFTH TEACHING EXPERIENCE

My last teaching experience was very exciting because the activities worked well and the students were motivated participating in the different activities i carried out. I tried to do my best as in all classes and I could see students’ faces of satisfaction and also the teacher was satisfied and he told me that the class was very nice. He just gave me some pieces of advice.

These experiences were very meaningful for me because I have learned many things which are going to be useful in my life as a teacher.

I HAD MY ELEVENTH TEACHING EXPERIENCE LAST WEDNESDAY BUT I DID NOT LIKE IT THAT MUCH. I WAS EXPLAINING THE GRAMMAR FOCUS AND IT WAS ABOUT HOW MUCH, HOW MANY, COUNTABLE AND NON-COUNTABLE NOUNS. BUT I HAD TO EXPLAIN MANY DETAILS AND I THINK STUDENTS WERE CONFUSED BECAUSE I COULD SEE THEIR FACES. I THINK I EXPLAINED IT AS CLEAR AS I COULD BUT I DO NOT KNOW WHY THOSE THINGS HAPPEN. I BELIEVE THEY WERE GOING TO UNDERSTAND THAT IN THE PRACTICE PHASE. NEXT CLASS I THINK WILL BE BETTER BECAUSE I WILL TRY TO DO IT THAT WAY.

MY TENTH CLASS EXPERIENCE

This experience was very nice because I arrived on time and the teacher also arrived early, so I could stasr the class early. Everything went ok and the students enjoyed the class because let me tell you that Basic English is a group that enjoy talking a lot but in English, and they also like to participate a lot in the different activities. That behavior helps me as the teacher because almost all the activities work. 

I only had some comments or suggestions from the tuttor but in  general he told me that the class was very nice.

NINTH TEACHING PRACTICUM EXPERIENCE

Now that we have experienced teaching to different groups, we are more confident about teaching, and it is not difficult to get accustomed to different groups. This teaching experience was great for me because everything went well and I just have some recommendations from the teacher. He told me to it was okay and he didn’t have many comments.

I was explaining the different adjectives to describe people’s age, height, clothes, accessories, etc. what I did was to explain a category for example then, I told them a riddle. After that, I continued explaining the other category, and at the end, I told them another riddle. The teacher told me it was very nice because students seemed interested about what I was explaining.

I want you to answer these three riddles:

1)      What is the letter of the alphabet that is a verb?

2)      What is the letter of the alphabet that is an insect?

3)      What is the letter of the alphabet that is always complaining?

I hope you to answer them…

LAST CLASS THIS PERIOD

On Wednesday, it was my last class with Basic English. It was the best experience I had and it is because of the results and because with that class, I advanced a lot.

As arrived on time and prepared everything I was going to use. Then, I was a little bit nervous because my class was going to be recorded and observed by a great teacher and friend   from whom I have learned a lot. 

I started the class with a warm up reviewing the last topic studied and students participated doing what I wanted them to do. The teacher congratulated me because of the warm up activity and he said it was nice because it helped them to refresh the topic which was the base for the one I was going to teach.

I continued explaining the pronunciation of the simple past regular verbs. It took me long to explain because I provided the rules and one example for each symbol. After that, I developed some activities including two very controlled and one semi controlled activities. I did not have enough time to deal with the free activity but with the activities I developed, I could notice students managed the topic.

 

At the end the teacher told me it was the best class and he just gave me some recommendations to improve my development as a teacher.

My third teaching practice was very nice as I arrived late and i could not start the class on time. I developed the grammar part and I also had students develop some practice which was very nice because students were interested on doing that and they also were asking many questions. It happened to me that one student started asking questions and I answered but he insisted asking again almost the same questions. His problem is that he has watched English movies and he has seen the uses of the prepositions of time different from the uses I explained. What I answered is that the English used in movies is not in agreement with the grammatical rules of it, as when we use Spanish inappropriately, and we do not care about the rules.

I couldn’t finish the activities because a practice I carried out was very difficult for them to finish, but the activities I developed were very nice and the teacher congratulated me because of the warm up activity I developed.

At the moment of the feedback session the teacher told me the activities I developed were very nice. Something he told me is that when you present a chart containing something about grammar, and then you have students practice what you have explained; you have to leave the chart on the board because some students do not take notes and they need the chart to see if what they are doing is okay. He also insisted on constantly encouraging student to use the language.

For me this experience was very nice and I enjoyed it.

second experience

When you have more time to prepare your class, everything goes better than when you do not have enough time to prepare the material you need to use.

Hi colleagues I am back again writing about my experience in the second teaching practicum this second period. Let me tell you that it has been my best experience because almost everything went excellent except that I did not teach the forty five minutes I was supposed to.

The teacher just told me that I had to push more students to speak English because as I said before, students can use their English but they do not like to use it. Another thing the teacher corrected me was the pronunciation of just three words.

I can say it was a nice experience and I tried to do my best but sometimes we cannot deal with unexpected situations unless we are already prepared to deal with those situations.