My third teaching practice

Hot reflection # 3

well, in this opportunity, I will explain you how my last practice was. I started the class with an energizer called "ZIP, ZAP, ZOP. This activity ran really good because the students developed it with a lot of energy, students enjoyed it. Then, I moved on to the review step about the simple past and the past perfect by writing an example on the board, so I explained the students about how to mixed the two structures in a sentence. The students undertand faster.

Later on,  I developed a filling in a blank exercise in which the students were going to chose ither to write simple past or past perfect according to the sentences, but right there, I realized I had made a mistake when writing the example on the board, instead of writing an example on the past perfect I was using the present perfect, so I apologize the students for commiting that mistake. At the time of checking the exercise, I could notice that some students were having some problems related to this because they did not know what structure to use, but finally, all of them finished the activity. 

After that, I gave them some pieces of paper to write an ending for a paraghrap using the simple past or the past perfect as much as possible. I had them working in pairs in this time so that they can help each other. It was a really good activity because they were alking about it, and they made up good endings for the given situation. In this activity, the teacher adviced me to do  a pre-reding activity or introduction of new vocabulary, I also made some mistakes of pronunciation when reading the paragraph, but the students had the opportunity to practice the main subject. All students gave their ideas in this activity.

Finally, I gave them some pieces of paper with some questions written on them. I told the students to pass in front of the class, and get in pairs to talk about the situation provided by the teacher. It allowed the students to be practicing the language by interacting with each other. The activity went pretty well.

In conclusion, I really liked to be in a real context teaching English. The group was nice with me because they developed each activty with a lot of enthusiasm, and they participated a lot during classes. My mentor was a great advisor during the development of my fisrt practices because he gave me feedback in a very kind way. Above all, It was an amazing experience. I can't wait for my future practices.

MY SECOND TEACHING PRACTICE

HOT REFLECTION # 2

In this opportunity, I will tell you about my second experience when teaching. I started the class talking a little bit about valentine's day, so the students were enthusiastically participating as I asked them what  they would do for that speacial day, then, I developed the energizer called  "earhquake" with them, this activity went pretty well, and students had fun with it.

Later on, I introced them new verbs in the simple past by pasting some color sheet of papers on the board with some verbs written on  it, they seemed to be interested with this activity because they were discussing about the possible meaning of these verbs, after that,  I gave them the definition and an example of each verb, and then I told them to write a sentence per each verb, as I was monitoring, I could realize that they were writting what I told them to do. In this activity, I took more time  as I have planned.

Then, I told them to write five questions in the simple past on their notebooks about things they wanted to know about the past of their classmates, after this, I told them to stand up, pass in front of the class, and get in pairs to talk about the questions. Finally, I chose some students to share their answers for the whole class. In this stage, students did not have any problem because the activity followed a good pace.

I could not finished my last activity  because I ran out of time, so in the next class, I will be very carefull with the time I assign to each activity because sometimes they take more time as we planned, and I also need to minimize my talking time. I really enjoyed teaching, and nerves went away completely.

MY FIRST PRACTICE, HOT REFLECTION # 1

I gave my first class on Tuesday, February 7th to Advanced English II  section "D". My mentor is Roberto Carlos Flores García. I arrived very early in the morning, misssing 10  minutes to start the class, so it allowed me to be on time, and write the date, objective, and the agenda on the board. After that, the students started to arrive, and then the teacher arrived to the classroom, too, so I started the class introducing  myself. I was a little nervous because it was my first class to that group, but when I started to talk to them it desapaired completely, then, as a way to remember their names, I gave them some pieces of papers so that they could write teir names, and paste them on their chest. 

Later on, I did the warm up activity with them, it was the broken telephone, so I gave them the directions of how to do it, and they got it easily. The activy was kind of funny because they were passing the message of some proverbs, but they were having difficulties with some students  while developing this activity because as you know  for some students are really hard to keep information longer than others, but  at the end they did a good job.

After that, I wrote a question on the board so that they could stand up, get in pairs, and discuss about it, they did it enthusiastically, then, I told them to open their books in order to read an article about telling the truth, so I started to read the article, and later I gave them some time to continue reading one by one until they finished it. I talked a little bit about this, and gave them some time, but the problem was that they didn't participate much.  Finally, I clarify some doubts the students had about  new vocabulary, pronunciation, etc.

I continue with the grammar explantion, I was worried in this part because I am not so good giving explantions, but I tried to study as much as possible to avoid problems in front of the students, so I felt secure when I was explaining the grammar point, and I could realize that everybody understood the topic. I remmenber that just one student asked me sometning in this part.

Finally, I gave the students some sheet of papers so that they could practice about the topic we had studied in that class. In this part I was in a hurry because I didn't have the time to develop this ativy, so I asked the teacher for five minutes more, and he cordially gave me more time.

Indeep, all ran well in this class, but I think I need improve a little bit  in the time management. I felt secure while developing my clas, and I know that next class can do it better.