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
