I REALLY ENJOYED IT :)

Hello dear classmates! This is the report of my second teaching practicum class. As the last class I arrived to the classroom some minutes before the class in order to organize everything.  I started the class just in time and all the students were there. I started with a greeting and as a warm up I planned a chant because the class topic was “indirect questions talking about childhood” I was a little bit nervous because in the previous class the warm up did not work in a right way. So I read the chant and I encourage the student to sing the chant three times after that I asked them to stand up and do some movements with the hands at the moment to sing the chant. At this moment I was really excited because everybody was enjoying the warm up. After that I passed to the free practice and it was some question about the childhood. They worked in pairs and discussed the questions that they chose. Examples: Who was your favorite teacher at school? Did you have your own bedroom? What was your favorite place in your neighborhood? And so on. I gave them 5 minutes to discuss the question with a classmate and after that everybody share the information that they interchange with the whole group. The activity was really nice because everybody participated. Finally I developed the wrap up of the unit and It was some role plays. Students did it in the best way and in my opinion everybody enjoy the role plays some of the situations were: 1- your friend broke up a relationship. 2- A couple talking with a travel agency, etc. I really enjoyed the class because the environment was really nice everybody participated, sang, shared information, and had fun with the role plays. The feedback of this class was exactly that; the teacher told me that he saw that I had good rapport with the students and the class had a friendly environment. So this was my second class. See you next week.

MY FIRST TEACHING PRACTICUM CLASS

Hello people! I had my first class of teaching practicum ll. I am teaching in Advanced English l in the afternoon shift, and I have around 14 students. I arrived to the classroom (B24) some minutes before to start the class in order to prepare the environment, I arranged the desk in a semi-circle, and I wrote the date and the agenda on the board, and I stuck some papers on the desk to students write their names. I started the class with a greeting and introducing me myself and asking the names of each student. The first activity was the warm up and in my opinion it did not work in the way that I planned it, so I resolved the activity on the board in order everyone could see the answers. After that, I did a review of the grammar notes and the topic was “Tag Questions”. I used a chart to do the review and the students passed to the board to write the main points about tag questions. After the review we did the controlled practiced. I had 15 sentences written in a chart without the tag questions. The students wrote the sentences and the tag questions, we checked the answers with the whole group. Finally I gave a piece of paper with sentences to each student and one by one were reading the sentences and adding the tag question and it was my first class. The feedback that I received was why the warm up did not work in the way that I planned it? The teacher told me that it was because I did not give them enough time to resolve the puzzle. He corrected me some grammar mistakes and that’s it. I appreciate if you give some pieces of advices in order to manage the time. Thank you to read my post. See you next week.