FOURTH TEACHING PRACTICE IN BASIC ENGLISH

Today I taught my fourth and last class in Basic English. I had to teach grammar of the simple present tense; although it was basically a review, I had a hard time because teaching  grammar is what I like to do the less since I feel as if nobody understands me. I felt nervous and I guess it was noticeable; it is so frustrating not to being able to control nervousness yet.

The warm up went wrong because it was a survey that the students had to answer according to their tastes and believes, but I didn´t clearly know what to do after they answered.

I´ve learned a lot through these first practices, and I´ve tried  to follow the advices given on the feedback; hopefully with time, I´ll do it better.

My 3rd teaching practicum

I definitely felt more confident and calm in my 3rd teaching practicum although at the beginning I thought everything would go wrong since that day there was a catholic event exactly at the moment that my class would start and almost all the students were there; I just had three students, and I had prepared a warm up for all the group together (30 or 31 students), so I was kind of sad and worried that my warm up wouldn´t work. Anyways I began to develop it, and while the few students were doing it, the others were getting in the classroom. Even though it wasn´t as I would´ve wanted, the students developed it correctly and I got them remember the topic studied previously, and I could notice that they liked it. 

Luckly, my class was to be developed just by checking some exercises(homework) in their handouts. I used different strategies to check and correct mistakes having them involved so that they wouldn´t get bored; besides, I had them practicing their pronunciation. 
After this experience I can say that just checking exercises or homework is not as easy as it seems; we must check and be aware that every single students is doing it corectly, and if not, we must be showing and explaining the correct way to do it which sometimes could be exhausting.

Second teaching practice in Basic English

I guess my second class went a lot better. I tried to follow all the suggestions my tutor gave me in the previous feedback, and they helped me a lot. Everybody participated in the warm up since I gave clearer directions (I provide an example on what they were to do written on the board); I was satisfied because I had them writing and speaking and they seemed they enjoyed doing the activity. Regarding with the speed I did the activities the previous class, this second time I took it into consideration so I was doing each activity more camly. It helped me to realize that the class flows more naturally if I do so. I think I did well teaching the grammar explanation since I involved them a lot during I was explaining avoiding to get them bored; after that I did a short exercise to check if everybody had understood, and most of them did well.
I guess with more practice I will assume my rol and believe in myself that I´m a teacher.

My first teaching class experience

Yesterday, I did my first teaching practicum in Basic English. Unfortunately, many things went wrong; I wasn´t nervous, but since it was my first time and I don´t have experience at all, I forgot to do some things. First of all, I didn´t write the date and the objective for the class I was going to teach, and I made a mistake when doing the presentation. It was a reading and I forgot to do the pre-activity; in other words, I ran too much when I was doing the activities. I definitely got an important lesson which I´m very sure I won´t forget; not even in all my years of studying how to teach English I´d have learned what I learned yesterday, so I´m positive and sure that it will help me to do better my next classes.