Teaching Practicum II is done.

Third Practice/ third period

To be enthusiastic is one of the most important things to motivate students. My lesson plan for this  third practice contained a very nice warm-up to start the class;however, I saw a few motivation in the students`performance, so I decided  to motivate them  by smiling, increasing my participation in the warm-up and telling some cheering phrases  such as: you can do it, go ahead, etc. As soon as I said  and did those things, the students were faster in working  for the rest of the class.After the warm-up, I continued with the presentation of the topic and with the grammar explanation  about  modals, in this part I tried to  explained the rules in a very easy way in order to make students to  understand  faster.Later , I finished with some practices about it, at the end of the class, I thanked them for  being nice students and for having given me the chance to put into practice  what I have learned from my masters.

I confirmed my feelings about motivation in class when   my tutor told me that she  liked the enthusiasm i  had.

I had  a nice teaching experience.

Second Teaching practice/ third period

To begin a class early in the morning is challenging.
 Almost always students are kind of  sleeppy before begining the class ,so I started the class with a warm-up in which they had to stand up and move to the right if  I had to say " ways to the right" or they had to move to the left if I had to  say "ways to the  left", but when I  had to say "storm" they had to  move anywhere. I noticed that they cheered up their felings.Later, I continiued with the  presentation in which they had  to  go to the board and  write down  any word related to the topics   I wrote  on the  board. I made two groups  and the group who had more words well written  won.After; I made i review of the grammar explantion .Then , I asked the students to perfom some tasks in order to reinforced their knowledge. When I finished  my class, the students said" thank you"; also, they said that they liked the class and all the activities .I noticed that they liked to be practicing English  with TPR  activities that helped them to pay more  attention.I felt satisfied , however, when I received my feedback , I was kind of down  eventough  the teacher told me that everything was ok, and she  said  that  I had to be careful with the pronunciation of some words, so she  taught me how to do it , I liked how she helped me to improve  my pronunciation.

Third period

In this third period , I started  my teaching practice  during the mornings. The  first topic to develop was Subject and object questions.My curiosity awakens when  I realized that the lesson plan  was made by me.I  was kind of nervous because I did nto know if  the methodology was going to work I started the class with a welcome; then I continued with the warm-up in which i had to bring a ball with stripes of paper stuck on in; those papers contained questions that the students were supposed to answer as soon as they catch the  ball.The procedure of the warm-up said that the teacher had to throw the ball to any of the students, then the students had to catch it and pick up a stripe of paper and answer the question it had;  after, the student had to gave back the ball to the teacher. I followed the procedure as i planned it;however, during the development  of the warm- up, i noticed that  this was kind of boring,but i  finished it.Later, i  made the presentation of the topic;then with the grammar explantion, at the end with the exercises.

In the feed back that my tutor gave me, she said that  the warm-up was ok, but that it could had been better if the students pass the ball among them, and not from the teacher to them, with this suggestion,  I  comfirmed  my  feelings towards the perception i had from the very biginning.

Teaching Practicum II / 2nd period

Mission Accomplished.

 Well at least today was the last practice of the period.What was good  and bad today?

The good part is that dealing with difficult situations challenge me  to think things over before  acting, that is, to be careful when correcting student´s mistakes in the appropriate time  and  with the appropriate tone of voice.Also, that i never have to  be quick to  give a bad grade to a student just because  there is a lack of communication. I learned that a teacher has to provide rapport in order to make students participate and help them to go ahead  and achieve their goals. You can have a lot of knowledge    in teaching, but it is not enough; also  you have to treat others as you wished to be treated.

On the other hand, bad things , I made some mistakes in pronunciation. I had problems in controlling time  in the activities, etc. However, I know that i gained more teaching experience.

Teaching Practicum II / 2nd period

3rd practice

To teach a difficult topic  it is better to use simple exercises.

Good students want to participate and answer the questions from the very first time, but when the topic is  new and they don´t master it, their anxiety and fear increase. The first class with phrasal verbs was difficult because they were afraid  of the  complexity of the topic, so I tried to minimize their fear by telling them that practice will help them a  lot.In the third teaching practice I had to make a review  of  phrasal verbs,but this time  I wanted  to motivate them by using  simple  strategies like the use of  bingo games , flash cards  showing the vocabulary ,some strips of paper with the vocabulary to make a matching exercise and the use of  pictures of  a  tale named Goldilocks.I realized that they got more acquainted  with the topic.I think that once they  feel familiar  with the topic and after some practice, it would be suitable to go deepen  with more complex exercises.

 On the other hand,  another thing  that I noticed was that the bingo game took a lot of time , so I had to be aware  of it  in order to make things even better.

Teaching Practicum II / 2nd period

2nd Teaching Practice 

 To provide rapport  to students   and to  have a good  communication with them are  some of the most important teaching strategies to make learning easy and not stressful.

In this second practice I had to start  teaching phrasal verbs, at the beginning of the class everything was OK because the warm-up made them  feel relaxed and they  refreshed their English knowledge.However,  their moods changed a little bit  when they read the topic on the board; when they saw it, they scared and told me that Phrasal verbs are difficult to manage; besides, I noticed that  their fear was because there was new vocabulary that they didn´t know, so  my response was to tell them  that they didn´t have to worry, and that while they practice the topic, they will master the it.Also,  I let them know that it is normal  to panic when there are new challenges  ahead,  and that they had to overcome them by  studying and giving  one step at a time.

 To  reduce their fear i had already prepared a matching exercise in which they had to match the phrasal verbs with the right meaning. I asked some of them to go to the front and match; with this exercise  i noticed that they were  stressed  because they  wanted to give the  right answers  in their first try. I  noticed that they stood in front of the board and were thinking  twice to match.As part of the development of the  exercise , I corrected the mistakes.

After, the teaching,  some of them thanked me for the new vocabulary to enhance their knowledge.

Teaching Practicum II / 2nd period

First Practice of the 2nd period


Sometimes experience in teaching  is not enough when some friends  are going to be your students in the teaching practicum.


My First teaching practice of the second period was strange for me because  I  realized that  some firends  of mine were going to be  my students in the  teaching practicum. At the very beginning I thought that  everything was going to be fine because  I felt confident  to  make the practice with my friends, but as soon as I was infront  of them , I started to think that  they were not going to  feel confortable to participate  due to I was  their friend, so I started to shake and felt nervous .
The warm-up helped us to get in touch with the  English class; later, I  made a grammar review of the topic they had started to study, the  topic was the indirect speach; with the grammar review I realized that  my fear  was just  in my mind and that they felt eager to participate because they volunteered themselves to participate.
At the end of the class i felt better and thought that next time   the teaching practice  will   be fine.
When  I had the  feedback  with  my tutor, I let her know  what happened  to me when  I started in order  to  allowed her to  give me some recomendations for next time. Her recomendations  encouraged me to feel more confortable.

Teaching Practicum II

Fourth practice

Today I realized more about that a teacher has to take advantage  of  all the little things  to be teaching  the English langauge in the classroom.

I started my practice with a warm-up in which the students were asked to stand up and to make a big semi circle .They had to say a verb in the simple present tense before throwing  the ballooon. They were  said that  if they throw the balloon first without saying the verb previously, they had to sit down.Later, i continued with grammar explanation about the simple past tense and the past continuous tense.Later, I made  a substitution drill in which I had to  read the sentences in the simple present tense,so they had to change them into past tense. At the end of my teaching hour, I received the feedback.The teacher gave me some tips about the speed of reading  and  about the warm- up in which I had to take care of using  warm-ups where the students didn´t  have to sit down if they fail in the activity because  if they sit down, they don´t practice their English.Eventhough the warmer was supposed to make the students to   get in touch with the Language , I had to be careful on that.

Teaching Practicum II

Third Practice


For this time, I was more confortable than before.
After  a long vacation i had planned to start the class with a warm-up that was not designed in the lesson plan because  the warm- up  for this lesson was already made by  the teacher;also, because the students just came back from a long vacation,so I  told the teacher  about the warm-up, he agreed.
After the warm-up, I made a review  of the topic they already started to study, the topic was  the use of non count  and count nouns. Later, I  asked the students to  look at the classroom and think about the  university  for a while and make   ten questions with  "how much" and " how many";then , the students woked in pairs  as I requested; later, we solved it in an oral way.
For, the next exercise,  the students were asked to  prepare  a list of things they  could use for a trip to an island.Later, they were asked to choose a representative  for each goup, there were only  two groups.The resesentatives  went to the board to write as many things as possible in a period of  five minutes.;then, they were asked to  explain why they decided to carry those things to the trip, the purpose was  to make them  speak.
I noticed that they enjoyed it because most of them  participated by volunteering themselves.

 In the feedback, I was told  that i should take time  into acount when  making a warm-up activity .
I agreed because I  felt  I took me too much time  to make it.

Teaching Practicum II

Student: Claudia Carolina Orellana

 During  my  second  Teaching Practice, I  understood that not all us look things in the same way.

 I welcomed the students, so they  said hello to me, too. Then,  I continued the class  by asking them  about  their weekend, some of them said that everyting was fine, etc. Latr, i  made a short warm-up for they to get in touch again with the English class. At the beginning, they did not feel like like participating,but  at the end, they did things in a nice mood.After, I continued with the  grammar  explanation about the use of    such and so .Then, I made the first exercise related to  the topic.They were supposed to  complete the  information  I  wrote  on the board; for example:  The  weather was so ..
Student : The wather was so  cold that I could not  take a shower.
The  dierction  in the lesson plan  said:  " In an written and oral way"
So I  decided to  let the students to make it  in a written  way on their notebooks,when they finished , I asked them to  read the statement on the board and add their own information  at the same time.
In the second exercise I asked them to listen the  information that I   mentioned, so they had to combine the sentences  by using  such... that, I made the exercise in an oral way because i realized that  it was easier for the students just to listen the information and insert the  words  required  in the middle of the two sentences.
I thought that I was right with the  procedure;however in the feed back that the teacher gave me , he said that things had been better if I  had  done the exercise in the opposite way beacuse the first exercise  was suitable for them to do it only  in an oral way and that for the seacond exercise  in the written form.
At the end I  analized his point of view and I noticed that his point of view was right according to  the needs of the students.

IT IS AMAZING!!!

I AM SURPRISED WITH HUMAN INTELLIGENCE.. THANKS GOD..

teaching is adventurous.

teaching has many good  and nice  things :

All the things experienced when teaching are amazing because a lot of things happen:   1.They make you feel  alive when thy share their ideas or feelings when you are developing a class.

2. The best gift you can receive from your students is to be part of their
knowledge adquisition.








3. It doesn`t matter if your students are kids , teenagers or adults,  you will be part of them because
you will help them  in any way.