My last class with Intermediate:

This group was a really challenge because their English accuracy is quite good. It has been necessary to scaffold and pick some knowledge that was already passive in me.

My last class was amazing because it was the first time I didn’t teach grammar. I really wanted to have them develop free activities in order to experiment the behavior they would present when production from what they have learned. They had been studying the modal verbs, and they knew the most common uses of them; the accompanying topic was jobs advertisements and as we had got into the topic of jobs, chiefs, employees and costumers, I had them persuade a classmate to buy a product as warm up activity.

I really liked that activity though my tutor suggested me a better application of such warm up; he told me I should have given them certain time to think of the reasons why the product must have been bought; my conclusion is that as it was a warm up activity, it was not that necessary to do; I would have applied it in that way if it had been a FREE PRACTICE ACTIVITY.

There was an example of Job advertisement in the book. I thought I was enough for them to create a new one, but the tutor told me that I must provide more examples for them to prepare a great advertisement. What I did is that I gave the students oral directions in addition to the example they had. I said how I wanted the advertisement and after that I had them come to the front and present their advertisement as if they were in television. Some of them were brief and shy but some others did it well. I learned a lot through this experience and I am now thinking about my next challenge, Advanced English.

Third class with Intermediate

My third class
I had an extraordinary experience today. Students were late and I had to develop the warm up activity only with three students. I was assigned to teach all the modal verbs as an overview. The wonderful part is that the students had already read about them.


 It was a challenge but it was satisfactory to accomplish my class normally. Being honest, I learned new things when I was preparing my class and later I had the chance of shearing it with the students. In previous feedback, my tutor made me some suggestions that I have to implement when teaching grammar points. For example, he told me that when teaching grammar, I don’t necessary have to make sure if the students understood the explanation properly because we have them solve doubts during the practice.


 We all know that teaching grammar can be monotonous and students can get bored, so by knowing this, I tried to include some funny examples as I was explaining the use of the modals.
I sometimes laugh because my tutor points mistakes I make which I don’t remember to have committed. However, I appreciate what he suggests me every time. 
My grade also improved and it makes me feel confident to go on. 

my second class with Intermediate

This class was pretty good! I enjoyed developing one more Reading activity and explaining grammar structures. I put into practice the pieces of advice my tutor gave me. I did it better and I love it because my identity as a teacher is becoming more solid.

The students were kind and cooperate to develop my class. They sometimes ask questions but as I read before teaching, I have never had troubles. The only difficulty I had when teaching was that I had to explain grammar related to prepositions of place and have them practice, but in addition to that I developed an activity related to a different topic which was phrasal verbs. Though it was unusual for me, I managed to do it well.

My tutor told me I had to cares the content of a reading and that I have to be careful with the time I give the students to digest what they are reading. I told him that since he me the number of activities to be done, I have limited time for each, otherwise my time is not going to be enough. He told me that that is not a problem; I can make use of the time I need to develop my activities as I desire. I like this part because this mean that I won’t be so worried about overcoming 45 minutes; however, I won’t abuse.

first day with Intermediate English

In this particular experience, I felt more nervous. I had the idea that this Intermediate group was going to be a challenge because the students have more knowledge about the English structures.

Before starting the class, I was trying to get relaxed. I arrived to the classroom early and I arrange the desks; students started to get in the classroom and the tutor allowed me to start the class. It is a nice group of students; they are not troublemakers.

I had a great view of what I was going to explain. I had to develop a reading and I had to explain grammatical content which I introduced with a reading activity.

My view of my work was that I didn’t have to spend too much time in the reading activity otherwise my time was not going to be enough; that’s why I just have the students read the text and identify some vocabulary and to answer some questions. However in the observations that my tutor made to me, he told me that I had to spend more time in the reading activity.

I always try to be sure about what I say, especially in my practice, but I did something my tutor considered it was a hesitation. I don’t feel bad but I probably never do that again.

Definitely we learn everything in the practice; but practice has to be taken in a reflexive way. At night I reflected on what I could have done differently, and what I concluded is that experiences reward us anyways because what we do is to learn from them when they don’t go as you would like, or we feel confident when everything goes right.

As a conclusion, I would say that this class was not so good for me; however it motivates me to do it better. I am sure I can.

My fourth practice!!

My last practice was very meaningful because as ever, I gained knowledge and I could see how the students achieved the objective. They were studying the use of Wh-questions. I introduced this topic in my third class and they had been practicing along the week. I had the chance of developing more practice with them because they had had some troubles at understanding the structure of questions with Wh words.

Of course they had some previous knowledge about the topic but let’s remember that they are basic students and not all of them come with background to start this major.

At this time, they were able to make oral and written wh questions with a low degree of difficulty; however, they needed some more free practice.

It is gorgeous when students start walking on the way of learning. These students are very smart and they have a great potential. I really appreciate that they let me help them to grow. In my y last class, I had them develop free activities in which they could practice what they had been studying and they did well in this practice.

My tutor told me that my activities were appropriate for them to practice, which made me feel proud.

THIRD PRACTICE

My third class was amazing because I had to teach a more complex topic. The grammar focus I taught made me think of easy ways to teach it and to make the students understand my 45-minuts class. I really enjoyed the class because all my students participated and they seem to like the way I teach.

What is very satisfying is that some of my students have told me that they like my classes.

In this particular class, the warm up I developed was success because they enjoyed writing commands for being performed by their classmates. The explanation of the grammar focus started with a diagnosis of the knowledge they had about Wh-questions. At the end of my class, the students clapped and showed satisfaction.

My tutor congratulated me and highlighted the positive aspects of my class. He said that he liked the way in which I approached some students that were not paying attention. I approached them and asked them a question gently about what I was explaining and they felt lost because they didn’t know what to say. After that, they were paying attention and I explained it again.

I had my students do lot of practice so they could internalize the topic we were studying. As they are very smart, they grasped the new content in an amazing way. I really like to work with these students because they really love studying English.

My 2nd day of practice

Hi, I want to share with all of you what my second day of practice was like. 
Of course my nerves were more controlled and my confidence was high. I started the class with a warm up that   the students really enjoyed. They had the chance of asking questions to their classmates to make then say yes or no. I taught the use of "whose" and to do it, I specially did it through examples. I engaged them in lots of practice and at the end of the class they were able to ask questions using WHOSE.


I particularly liked my class; however, my tutor told me it was just a little bit better than the first. Believe me that I really care about what the teacher tells me, but I am more concerned about satisfying myself and making the students like and understand what I teach them. We teachers are not perfect and our flaws are at the mercy of the sight, but I really learn new things in each class. My class became sort of distracted at the end, but I didn't call their attention becase my class was over. I already deduced the source of their distraction; it is because of the nature of the topic; it is easy to understand and students thought I was repeating the same thing along 45 minuts. However, I kept the majority of them focused with fun activities.