MY THIRD CLASS EXPERIENCE

February 21th, 2013

Hello everyone let me tell you that in my third class not everything was nice. I felt worried about my students, because since the very beginning they did not show interest in the class, so it made feel a little bit nervous. I tried to create a good environment for them to participate and speak, but it was not easy. For a moment, I changed the methodology in order to get students’ attention, and it worked because they were more concentrated in the class. Up to now, I have realized that teaching to a basic level is not an easy task because they are beginners, and some of them do not have previous knowledge about English, so the teacher has more responsibility regarding to this. I remember that when I chose the level, I was happy because I thought everything would be easy with this group, but it was not like that because now, I have noticed that a teacher needs to be aware of many things inside the classroom for example, when giving directions, you have to be sure if students understood, you need a bit of spontaneity to make up sentences or any oral practice to see if they really catch the topic, also you must include repetition  for checking their pronunciation.  To sum up, I can tell you that in each class, I have learned something different, and I am willing to learn even more in the coming ones.

MY SECOND CLASS

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 14^th, 2013

In my second class, I felt different because I was not nervous as the first time, so I felt I was more confortable. I could manage the class in a better way and students were willing to learn too. I want to share with you that this time not everything was nice because I faced a problem in the warm up activity. I chose a short phrase for students to pass it secretly by whispering at one another, but this did not work as the way I wanted. During this, the first student who I told the phrase did not understand what it meant, and as a result he was thinking too much in how he would say it to his classmate, so I decided to start from the other side too, but the same happened, and they started wasting too much time on this, so they did not do anything. I got a little bit worried about this, and I did not know what to do, so I tried to make something different, in other words, I was improvising for some minutes. Next time, I will be prepared with two activities if something like this happens again because you never know.

1st entry

Thursday February 07, 2013

First of all, I would like to say that I got a little bit nervous a day before the class because I started thinking that this time everything would be different because teaching at university level was not the same thing than teaching children or tercer ciclo of basic education, so I was kind of worry for this, but happy at the same time for the new experience.  The day of the class I prepared everything and I felt more confident with what I had to do, but I did not know why I started swearing that you do not have any idea. This was a problem for me because it made feel even more nervous for some minutes, but after that everything changed because I was not paying attention to this anymore. In general, I can tell you that I am motivated because students were paying attention and participating which was something that made feel confident during the class. Up to now, I have not faced a big problem; everything has been nice with this group. Fortunately, I got a good grade; however, I know that I should take into consideration all the suggestions the teacher gave to me for the next classes.