TEACHING PRACTICUM II first entry

This morning I had the first teaching practicum with Intermediate English I. First of all, I would like to say that teaching English is such a great experience and I already learned to like it and enjoy it. 
Today was the first time in which I felt comfortable and relaxed before teaching my class although I was worried because the group is very large and kind of difficult to handle. 
I began my class with a very nice warm up, but unfortunately there were just few students, and it was kind of hard to explain each student that was coming in what they were supposed to do, but at the end they were speaking and the teacher told me during the feedback that she had liked the it because I had them speaking a lot.
I was requiered to teach the present continuous tense, it was an easy topic, so I introduced it with a short reading, luckly everything went well. After that, I gave the grammar explanation and I had them doing some written practice with the tense I had just explained; I checked their answers and they did it well. To finish the class, I had them doing work group in which I gave them some pictures, and they were requiered to write a short paragraph about what they saw the people were doing in the image; at the end they had to present the picture and share the paragraph with the rest of the class. 
During the feedback the teacher told me that I did well and that all the activities matched with my objective; she liked that I had them speaking and participating a lot. 

Last Teaching Practicum With Intermediate II

Before beginning my entry about my last practice, I want to say that I really liked this experience even though it caused me to be anxious and nervous in some times, but I learned many things regarding with teaching English; besides, it has given me a great personal satisfaction because I did many things which I thought I would never be able of doing so. 

Everything went well in my last; fortunately the warm up I had prepared worked out as I expected. 

I was required to teach the students the use of MAKE and LET, so it was an easy topic. I explained to them the use of it, and then I had them doing a practice on the book and they did it correctly. After that, I had them doing a listening in which they remembered about childhood memories. 

It was a very nice class, and my grade was good. 

THIRD TEACHING PRACTICUM INTERMEDIATE II

The third class with intermediate was kind of well although I was nervous because I had someone record my class. There was some trouble with the camara since it was meant to record 40 minutes, but in the moment it just recorded like 20 minutes.

I began the class with a nice warm up that my collegue Lupita shared with me; it is a really good one and it worked perfectly for my class.
The class was to be pretty challenging because of the grammar structure I was to teach and the students didn´t know anything about it. It was defining realtive clauses, so I introduced the topic with a reading from the book. After that, I gave the grammar explanation, then I had some volunteers to provide some examples to check if they had understood, and fortunately they did because they gave some correct examples. Later, I gave them some written exercises for they to practice more on the new topic, and I had some other activities prepared, but time wasn´t enough to continue.

This time I didn´t see my grade, but whichever it is, I´m satisfied with what I achieved and learned with this practice.

SECOND CLASS WITH INTERMEDIATE II

My second teaching practice with this group was on the last Friday. Thanks God, everything went well; definitely, I was lucky to be assigned such a great group.

I began the class with which required them to speak a lot and they enjoyed it. The rest of the class was easy since I just was required to do a review of the past perfect tense, so I gave a short explanation of it and how to connect simple past clauses with past perfect clauses. After that, I had them doing an exercise on the book which was using a listening. I also had to teach them the use of some useful phrase which I did it using a listening from the book.

I´m glad of doing this practicum because I´m getting used to using my English in a more natural and fluenty way; besides, my fear of speaking in public is going away.

FIRST PRACTICE WITH INTERMEDIATE II

I had my first practice with the intermediate students on last Friday. I must confess that I was extremely nervous, even more than with the previous groups because this group is very large, but fortunately as the class flowed, I became more comfortable and calm and I even enjoyed teaching them.

My tutor teacher urged me to begin the class with a nice warm up since they had been going through a tedious evaluation week, and so I did; everybody participated and got engaged with what I would do next. The topic was easy: modals of deduction, and probably that´s why I felt it was easier to teach that class. I did a listening, but this time I didn´t forget the pre, during and post activities. Then, i continued with the grammar explanation which I think I did kind of well because everybody did well on the short practice I asked them to do after I had explained. Lastly, I took some flashcards of famous and beautiful places around the worls for the students to make deductions about it ( I gave a flashcard per trio). 

The more I teach, the more I understand and learn the process of teaching a foreign language which at the beginning seemed a huge confusion to me and I didn´t know what to do. 

FOURTH AND LAST TEACHING PRACTICUM IN ADVANCED

First of all, I must say that I feel really proud of what I have achieved and learned during this period of practice teaching the advanced level even though I know I still have lots of things to learn. 

My last class wasn´t that good as the previous ones; I didn´t like that much the warm up I did but anyway the students participated. I was supposed to do a listening, but things didn´t turn out as I expected due to my lack of preparation and probably lack of practice when working with listenings; it was a very long listening and I played it once but then I didn´t know exactly what to do next ( in the second playing) because the during activity in the book wasn´t that appropriate, and I was working based just on that. During the feedback session my tutor teacher told me that I should´ve created my own during activities and the correct way how to deal with long listenings; she also told me that I shouldn´t feel so bad or frustrated about it since it is just a matter of practice. 

Even though it wasn´t an excellent class, I´m happy because I finished with this group and because I gained more confidence.

 

THIRD TEACHING PRACTICUM IN ADVANCED

Yesterday I taught the third class in advanced; basically, everything was alright. 

I began the class late because the techer hadn´t arrived to the classroom. I began without her being there because it was too late already, and I thought that was going to be a problem in my grade outcome, but fortunately it did not affect me at all since during the feedback, the teacher told me that she had liked that. 
During the grammar explanation some of the students were talking and laughing, but I managed to keep explaning without getting desperate and getting them back focused. In general, all the activities were ok since with advanced levels we´ve got to have them speaking a lot, but being careful because they may lose focuse on working in their job and could begin speaking about other matters.
I had some trouble with some exercises because they were too confusing, but anyway they solved them. 

My tutor teacher praised my positive attitude towards teaching the class and she liked it, and I must say that it is something I feel really proud about; honestly, that is a big achievement for me because in spite of the fact that teaching is not my thing, I´m doing it fairly well.

I´m giving my best to improve my teaching skills, so I hope everything turns out alright at the end of this course.