Third class experience

May 16^th, 2013

Well, this day I had to teach about present passive voice, and I really liked this topic because I consider students understood it very well, which made feel satisfied. In the warm up activity, I made two groups and I used two sentence strips related to the main topic, each group had to form the two sentences as soon as possible and write them on the board. Regarding this, the teacher told me that it would be better if I had made more groups for this activity because some of them did not participate and I could see it, but the problem here is that they are too many and the room is too small, so it turns difficult. In the grammar part, I could see how students were paying attention to what I was explaining; also they were asking questions if they had any doubt. After the grammar part, I incorporated different exercises for them to practice; I included written, reading and oral exercises. During this, I was helping them and trying to clarify their doubts. At the end, I was happy because I could observe how students understood the class I prepared for them.

May 9^th, 2013

Hello everyone! Let me tell you that my second class was not the way I planned because I faced a problem that did not let me to be concentrated with my class. On Wednesday night while I was preparing everything for the class, my uncle called my mom and told her that a cousin who was 33 years old had died because of a heart attack he suffered while he was working. My God!!! At the moment, I felt totally devastated and I got sick because of a terrible pain on my chest, so that I did not want to go teaching next day, but I remember the teacher’s words when he said that students do not care about teacher’s problems and that they are there because they are paying and want to learn, so I continued doing charts and everything I needed for my class. Next day, I did not feel ready with all I had to do, but I tried to focus on the class. Well, the class was not so bad I started with a warm up activity students liked; the class was about infinitive verbs, I presented some grammar uses and also some exercises related to the topic. At the end, the teacher gave me some good recommendations which I will consider and put it into practice next classes. To conclude, I can say that is not an easy task to teach a class when you have a big problem and you have to. I learned that the role of a teacher is too big because you have to forget what is happening to you when you are working, and also that you can control your mind when you do not want problems affect you in specific moments. 

May 02^nd 2013

I am feeling so excited because I have had  the opportunity to be teaching  in the three level of the major, and it has helped me a lot because I could  see the differences between them. Teaching to the intermediate level has been a challenge for me first, because they are many and the room is too small, so it is something that will affect me at the moment of developing activities that require some space. Second, because students do not like to participate, so the environment turns difficult for me because I have to find a better way to make them do it. Well, as you could read I have some disadvantages with this group, but of course they will be my challenges during this period. On the other hand, I am happy because during the feedback the teacher told me that he liked the class as I incorporated the four skills in the activities, and also because of the way I introduced the topic during the warm up part. In general I can tell you that I felt confident in this class, and I wish to do my best in the next ones.