second class experience

On Thursday 19^th, I developed my second teaching practicum. This time, I had to continue with some practices about comparatives and superlatives adjectives, also I had to introduce the new topic which was phrasal verbs. To start with the class, I made use of some flashcards about means of transportation for students to compare them. Then, I provided them a reading in order to take out all the sentences in which the speaker was making any comparison through the reading. After this, they were working in oral and written activities that were on the book, and almost at the end I was introducing the new topic.

Taking about classroom management, I can tell you that I did my best because I tried to control the class in a better way, also I was more enthusiastic and I tried to fix all the mistakes that according to the teacher I made previously. Well, I had big expectations about my second class, first because I got a bad grade in the first one, and second because I wanted to show the teacher that I could do a better job regarding this. After the class, I thought I had got a good grade, but when I saw my grade it was less than the first one, so it made me feel really sad; the teacher did not explain to my why I got that grade, she just told me about a word I mispronounced. Another thing I did not like was that she was grading me in front of a student which I consider is not appropriated because students do not need to know the grade of the practitioners as we know, it is something between the teacher and the practitioner only.

Well, all this have helped me to understand that as teachers we are going to deal with many good and bad things, so we have to pay attention to everything we really need and take advantage of it.

first class experience, second period.

On Thursday 12^th, I had the chance to be teaching to the intermediate level I. This time I started with unit number five which is called In Shape. Fortunately, it was the unit Veronica and I did last period, so that I had some ideas about the lesson plan. To start, I introduced myself, and I asked students to do the same by standing up and telling their names and one of the expectations they had from the course. As a warm up activity, students listened to a song named fighter by Christina Aguilera, the students’ job was to underline all the adjectives they found through the reading. After that, they mentioned all the adjectives as a whole class. As a presentation, they were working on their books; they had to answer a questionnaire and at the end, they had to calculate the score and compare it with their classmates. Then, I introduced the grammar part, it was about comparatives and superlatives forms of adjectives; I really liked the way I did it because I could see how motivated students were when I provided some written examples, and also when I made use of realia for them to had a better understanding. In generally, it was all I did in the class. Let me tell you that I felt confident with students because they were participating and asking different questions. In the feedback the teacher told me about many things that according to her I need to improve, even though I know not all she told me is the true. To sum up, I just want to thank the teacher because in this opportunity I could remember what he told us at the beginning of the year, and it was to pay attention to everything we consider is important, and not to those things you are sure you do well in your classes and that some teachers criticize you.