JOURNAL #1
TEACHING PRACTICUM II
ADVANCED ENGLISH I
TEACHER GIOVANY BLANCO
In this class, I was really motivated about teaching. I liked being with my students as always.
Something that I want to describe about the lesson that went well was that I tried to transmit enthusiasm to the students during the class. At the beginning, all the students were able to participate in my class. I tried to do my best when teaching as I learned from my teachers, and that is why the class was nice. We were working in two speaking and writing activities
Something that didn’t go well was that some students arrived late to the class and that´s why they could not understand some activities we did at the beginning of the class. Another thing that didn’t go well was that there were only five students in the classroom.
The students were bored for a while because they had to work in the exercises that were in the appendices. At the beginning some students couldn’t do the exercises, but later on, they understood the exercises and continued working in the following exercises without any problem.
I used some activities in the class, and some materials, but I didn’t use the board too much. I used charts, but I didn’t use pictures. They were working in their notebooks. They were performing a conversation in pairs, and then they passed to the front to say the conversation they created. They were also working in groups to develop an activity related to a reading I carried out to the class.
Students were on the task. They worked on oral and on written exercises practicing the structure taught in the previous class. They showed how much they had learned from the topic.
I could manage the time correctly, and I could work in all the activities I planned. The students worked in pairs. There were some students that had some problems at the moment of doing the conversations, but then they could finally work on it.
If I teach that lesson again, I will use more materials to make the students understand better. I will also vary the activities to do with the students because they weren’t enough. I will also try to considerate the space to do the activities, if it is enough for doing them or not.
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Hello teacher Edward, well i can see that you are still sharing your enthusiasm with your students. I consider that it is very important to transmit your positive attitude with the group of students you have. The time they attend classes is kind of tiring because they can get easily bored, but if you work with them in the way you started this time, i guess you will not have problems.
ResponderEliminarI guess that students arrive late because of the time, too. Take into account that sometimes they are kind of bored or tired. That's why they arrive late to your class. This is something that not only happened to you this time, but also to all the practitioners and teachers have had to deal with the same situation almost all the time.
I guess you must start your class with the ones who are on time in the classroom, and don't complicate your life. You must do what you have to do. Remember that your students are not children anymore. They are adults, and they already know about their responsibilities. I am pretty sure that you worked as you usually do. Nice class, Edward.
As I told Elizabeth, what I do with latecomers is that I don't include them in the warm-up that is taking place while they're entering the classroom. Why? because it takes time to explain again and also the activity is interrupted, which is not good at all. I think that is healthier for our class and the development of the rest of it...
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