This day was completely awful!
First of all, I don´t have the feeling to write my entry because what I´m about
to describe as my second practice is a mess! I was going with all my feelings
and sure that everything would be very good. I also was prepared mentally in
case the teacher Cristian arrives to evaluate me! But guess what!? I was not so
prepared hehehehe I know it´s not the worst thing but I got really nervous and
I did everything no so good. Also, Silvia Salinas was doing her peer observation
and my tutor was evaluating me, too!
I was assigned to explain the
grammar phase but as an introduction there was a listening, beside the warm up.
OMG! My warm up was a disaster! I often
invent most of the games that I bring to the class maybe that is the reason why
I don´t know how to explain them. But this time was worse! I brought a big and
a short dice; the big one had letters in each side. I asked the students to
make a circle. I passed the dice and the person who got the big dice had to
throw it and say 6 words with any of those letters however the students didn´t
get the idea and I had to explain it for many times; since that moment I felt
as if I shouldn´t be there hahahaha I just wanted to run away!!
Well, I did the listening. First,
I asked the students to work in pairs and talk about the last time they bought
someone a gift. Then, they listen to Eddy talking about the last time he bought
someone a gift. After, they listened to it again and underlined the correct
sentence on an exercise from the book. I played it for the last time just to
have them check their answers. I wanted to do the listening activity deeper but
I had to focus my class on the grammar part and as my tutor arrived around 12
minutes late I must hurry up because I know she stops me at 7:50 a.m it doesn´t
matter if I started 10 or more minutes late because of her fault!
Afterward, I started explaining the
grammar with a chart using a sentence about the previous listening. It was an easier
topic “direct and indirect object”
but I did it kind of complicated at the beginning. Then, I tried to concentrate
and not to have doubts about what I was saying since I made a review yesterday
night. At the moment that I was explaining I asked the students to help me to
find the “direct and indirect object.” They
answered very well, actually it seemed as if they had understood but I was not
sure about it. So, I thought; ok, I´ll know if they understood in the next
exercise they have to do but in that moment my tutor told me that the time was
over. I really like that however, at the same time I wanted to have more time
because I felt I hadn´t done anything as good as I wanted.
My feedback was so funny! I told
my tutor how I felt and it was so frustrating for me that I not even remember my
mistakes, I just remembered that each time I saw the teacher Cristian I was thinking
that he would think the is the way I am used to teaching and everything that I write
on my entries is a lie!!
My grade was so down, I mean in comparison
with the first one nevertheless, I felt ashamed not of my grade but of myself
because I know that is not my teaching style and I could have give more as I usually
do. I know that today I deserved that grade but next time I will be the same
again hehehehe
5 comments:
Well, you have to learn that sometimes things do not happen as we plan. It is difficult to overcome those situations, but I'm sure you learn many things from that messy class :-)
I know how you felt since that had happened to me many times. When we feel everything is going to be right, everything ends in a complete mess. I liked your warm-up, I would just suggest you to give instructions by showing students how to do it. It would help students to understand better.
chiquitina dont feel like that, I know it is hard to teach when you have observers in the class jiji Now I know why teachers dont like when we are in their classes observing jiji.
Keep working hard, just remember that this class was just a bad experience that you will overcome tand It will help you to learn even more.
Next class will be very good you will see and dont give up Zuly (=
Poor Zuly!! I can understand you... It´s very hard to teach a class knowing that someone is evaluating you, but in this case is worse because you have been evaluated by three persons. And usually, we feel bad because we know that we can do it better and not the performance that have done. But the most important is that you know that you cna do it better, and I know that you will do it!! Go ahead!!! =)
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