JOURNAL #4
TEACHING PRACTICUM II
ADVANCED ENGLISH I
TEACHER GIOVANY BLANCO

Today’s class was really interesting because the all of the students participated in the class, and they were enjoying it because they were laughing and participating a lot, but I was sad because it was my last class in that group. It was the last class in teaching practicum II.

• Something that I want to describe about the lesson that went well was that the Ss were participating actively in the activities I carried out to the classes. I was motivated to work with them because they showed interest in the class. They were creating stories using adjective clauses.

• Something that didn’t go well was that some students arrived late to the class and I felt uncomfortable for it because they were irresponsible. Another thing was that a student arrived to the classroom to ask for permission because he had another activity to do, but he took the material I had to teach that class while I was doing the warm up. When I finished the warm up, looked for my material that was on a desk, but it was not there. Some of the other students called him, but he did not answer the phone. It was terrible for me.

• I felt I got the objectives of this lesson because at the end of the classes all the students were participating creating their stories using adjectives clauses.

• I used to make the students understand the class. I used some copies, the board, markers, eraser, etc. I gave parts of some stories and they worked in groups creating good endings for those stories.

• I could manage the time well because I finished the classes at 4:40 exactly. All the activities I did were measured well and that´s why I did not have problem with the time I had.

• If I teach this lesson again, I will be really careful with the activities because at the end of the class, teacher Geovani told me that there was no connection between two activities I did during the class. And also I will teach grammar before doing some activities related to that topic because I did not explained grammar. I will also be very careful with my material because the problem I had in this class.