LAST TIME!!

Mmmmmmm :) the last time!!!!!! :) yeah!!! Hahahaha

Well, because it was the last time I was happier than the previous time, I had more enthusiasm. I started the class with a “words chain” as warm up. My feedback in this activity was that some of the students did not understand what to do so I have to explain at least twice to make sure they understand. But most of the time some students do not pay attention and they look at you as if they got it jejeje or sometimes they just do not want to participate and you can not force them to do it!! However, the students like it.

Then I continue talking about shopping and I wrote on the board a question “What do you like shopping for?” And I ask to some of the students: they looked interested in the topic and participated. Then I played an interview about some people who talked about what they like shopping for. The second time they listen and read along the cd and I asked them about the listening; they really tried to understand it. Then they answer some questions in their appendixes and share the answers. After, I asked them to stand up and ask to 3 classmates about what they like shopping for. To finish my class I made a chain asking to one student (one that I noticed has difficulties and does not participate in class, since I knew she interviewed classmates who do not participate and are shy so in this way I made the shy students talk) this question: who did you interview? …

Materials that I used: Board, markers, CD player, CD, photocopies and the appendixes the students already have.

I liked all the class because I interacted with all the students. I reached the objectives at the end of the lesson I taught. My grade and feedback as always was meaningful and nice.

What I liked the most from this experience?

I really liked to feel myself as a real teacher; after all I liked the challenge to deal with 28 students and with a tutor jeje

Also, I liked the students´ positive attitude toward me; they are friendly and intelligent. My tutor gave me good and meaningful feedback.

        What I did not like from this experience?

First, most of the time I did not have the complete 50 minutes to do my job because the teacher arrived late but she stopped to me at 9:50.

Second,  I got until the last moment the lesson plan and the part I had to tech.

And third, I did not like to teach grammar!

But, all of us have another big challenge! So go ahead people, good luck for everybody!!!

MY FEAR!!!!!!!!!

Hi again jeje

Almost the last time of teaching, yeah!!!!!!!! Oops, sorry for my expression!! I should say OH NO! IT´´S ALMOST THE LAST TIME  :(  JEJE

First than all on Monday around 6:20 p.m I got the lesson plan because the teacher had not got it yet, so it was hard being thinking in what I would teach next morning! The worst thing was that I couldn´t sleep even I did not prepared to many activities but I couldn´t sleep because I was afraid of teaching GRAMMAR!!!111 OMG I didn´t know how to do it! I guess everybody is afraid of teaching grammar but believe me my fear was worst than yours  jajaja

I looked for games and other activities to explain the grammar but I could not find how to do it :´(

I taught in the second hour because the students had to make a presentation. As always I started with a warm up. It was the same from the lesson plan but I just changed some points to make it more interested and funny. And, effectively the students really enjoyed it. Also the teacher told me it was really nice because it was a game with colors and at same time the students were remembering things they had been studying…

Then I continued with the presentation; it was a chart about shopping survey. The students stood up and ask questions to their classmates. The observation in this activity was that I should read first the questions for them, so they could familiarize with the activity and ask for new vocabulary.

The part that I didn´t like the way I taught is GRAMMAR :( How awful I did it…well I felt it like that but the teacher just told me one observation about it; I said we PLURALIZE VERBS!! Imagine!!! I is not an excuse but I guess that lesson plan had too much grammar notes jejeje and my tutor did not tell me if I should go deep on it or just a review!! So I wanted to cover each point from the lesson plan. Also I did not like that this time I did not have my 50 minutes to teach because the teacher stopped me and she continued because of the time and because she has to cover that lesson plan this week and it is too long, she said. 

Something to do it better; well, I guess find out what the students already know about the grammar I have to teach. Because when the teacher continued with the grammar she did it quickly, she covered just some points and the students understood, so that means they had previous knowledge about it.

For the objectives I could star just one; to talk about shopping… Teenagers like those topics so they looked interested on it and participated.

Materials: one bigger dice with some categories (family, professions, countries, etc) pasted in each side and one smaller (with numbers in each side), photocopies about “shopping survey”, board, markers and eraser. They used a 90 % of English during the whole class. I think they like English class because they try really hard to talk in English..

This time, my directions were clearer because the students did not ask again for what they had to do :). But I do not know my grade yet :(

NEXT TIME WAS BETTER!

Hi everybody let me tell you about my second time =D it was better because since the very beginning i mean the warm up ( a whispering game) the students started to pay attention to what we would do. I guess they enjoyed the activity. However i have a little bit of difficult with one group, i diveded the class into two groups, i saw the same in the previous class that they want and really like to participate but this part of the class doesn´t get very well the instructions. The thing was they had to pass a message with 3 lines about the simple present and the last student of the line forgot the message and he read it like five times while the other group was almost reaching the board to write the message!!!! The other group finished and the message in the other group had not advanced from  the third person on line and they were 10 students!!!! So the other group won!!! ....Well, at that moment I didn´t like that point because i felt as if i didn´t explain well!! :´( ... To improve this activity i was thinking on give the message in a written form to the last student of each line so they can see to the message as many time as they want.
But latter on the students work in groups of 4 with a conversation; i gave them some pieces of paper with the conversation on it and they listened it from the play recorder, the first time. The second time they ordered it, third time they checked it. Finally i asked some of them to read the correct conversation....they are too fast!!!! To continue with my great experience the students were given a photocopy about "family tree", they analyzed the map and completed some sentences, then they were asked to draw their family tree on a separate sheet of paper when they finished they played "snowball fight" - they trew the balls to someone else and after some time they picked up one ball and work with a partner to analyzed the family tree they got. I noticed this activity like them most and they were talking in a 90% of english!!!! = D

well i think i achieved not the whole objectives but part of them since the teacher had not started to work with the lesson plan (what i did was like activities to introduce the topics; that was what the teacher requested to me ) one of these objectives were "the swbat to understand the simple present in the affirmative form" and "the swbat to talk about their family" so as you could see my activities were according to the objectives.

Well i think time passes flying jejeje because i couldn´t develop more than 3 activities!..But i´m sure the students got it because every activity were TPR activities and as student i can say we don´t like being sitting and writting all the time.

My feed back!!! As i have been telling you it was better. The teacher really like my activities and the way i monitored the students´work also my interaction with the students! But the only thing that i have to improve and i have noticed, too is "my accent" jejeje i have to sound as a "gringa" when talking but i don´t know how =´( can you give me some pieces of advices, please???? C(=

My first experience.

My first esxperience with the students was really really nice because they really like to participate and they understand the topic. Also they like to ask when they don`t understand something....

However, as we are in the process of being good teachers the feedback I recived is very important in my process. I had a little bit of problem with the instructions I gave because some of the students didn`t understand at the first time but I explained them by showing them how to do it.