My second practice with the advanced group went pretty well. Now I can say that I finally overcome my fear of being a teacher, and I actually enjoyed teaching the class because even the teacher told me that it was reflected on my smiling face. I´m so glad that I finally changed my attitude towards teaching.
Of course, everything went ok because I gave my best planning the class, besides, the topic and grammar explanation was kind of easy. I learned that preparation plays an important role at the moment of teaching.
I hope to do the next practices as well as I did the last one, and to keep learning and improving as much as I can.
jueves, 29 de marzo de 2012
martes, 20 de marzo de 2012
First Teaching Practice in Advanced
Yesterday I did my first teaching practicum in Advanced (my biggest fear); even though I made some mistakes and was kind of nervous, the class turned out to be better than how I thought it would be.
I started the class a little bit later and with few students, but as the rest of the students came in, they were getting into the warm up activity; I could notice that they liked it because they were talking a lot and having fun. Honestly, I was afraid they wouldn´t be quiet or paying attention to me because I know this is a restless group, but the presence of licdo. Melendez helped me a lot.
Again, I made the same mistake when working with the PDP framework; I didn´t do a pre activity, but I´m sure that it was the last time, from now on I know I won´t forget it.
Another mistake I made was when giving the grammar explanation. It was a review of relative clauses, so they already know about it and when a I gave them the examples, I should´ve given them the opportunity to provide examples of their own, but I forgot to do so.
I had them doing a roplepay in which they were to use all the vocabulary they had been studying, and they did it well.
Fortunately, the rest of the class went ok although I wasn´t able to finish due to time issues; I would´ve liked to finish because I had prepared a good activity to introduce new vocabulary.
Of course, I hope to improve my teaching skills in the next classes.
I started the class a little bit later and with few students, but as the rest of the students came in, they were getting into the warm up activity; I could notice that they liked it because they were talking a lot and having fun. Honestly, I was afraid they wouldn´t be quiet or paying attention to me because I know this is a restless group, but the presence of licdo. Melendez helped me a lot.
Again, I made the same mistake when working with the PDP framework; I didn´t do a pre activity, but I´m sure that it was the last time, from now on I know I won´t forget it.
Another mistake I made was when giving the grammar explanation. It was a review of relative clauses, so they already know about it and when a I gave them the examples, I should´ve given them the opportunity to provide examples of their own, but I forgot to do so.
I had them doing a roplepay in which they were to use all the vocabulary they had been studying, and they did it well.
Fortunately, the rest of the class went ok although I wasn´t able to finish due to time issues; I would´ve liked to finish because I had prepared a good activity to introduce new vocabulary.
Of course, I hope to improve my teaching skills in the next classes.
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