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.

teaching experience with Basic

                MY FIRST TEACHING EXPERIENCE WITH BASIC

Today it was my first teaching experience with Basic English and it was very nice because I arrived just on time, so I could set everything before all the students arrived and I started the class some minutes before it was supposed to.

The warm up was very nice because students looked interested on what they were doing and they enjoyed it. This group of students is kind of difficult to deal with sometimes because they do not like to use their English even though they know in English what they want to express or unless you understand what they want to say.

Something that happened is that it was kind of difficult to call their attention after developing a speaking activity because they continue speaking even though you ask them to finish the activity; and based on that the teacher suggested me to look for a strategy to call their attention, so next time I will do something.

As it is a group of 24 students, it is very difficult to have them all participate, so I just have to ask questions to some of them. The activities I developed were very nice and something that I liked was that at the end of the class I heard some comments like: good teacher, it was nice, etc.

As a feedback, the teacher told me I have to push students a little bit more to use their English because that is the only place they can practice it.

I can say it was the class in which I had less observations from the tutor and I come to the conclusion that it could be because it is a  lower level and the topics are easier than in Intermediate English

fourth experience

My fourth teaching experience was the best one as I had enough time to investigate about the topic and that’s why I was ready to answer students’ questions. The topic was Phrasal Verbs, and I know it sounds difficult but I was lucky and I had just to develop some activities related with that topic. As I said before, it was the best experience I had and there was not that much feedback. I developed a reading and hen, I asked some questions related to the article but I didn’t give them time to think about the answers and the teacher told me that I have to ask them the question and give them some minutes to think about the possible answers and then, all of them can participate and here won’t be any problem. I think it was a good feedback.