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Sunday, November 20, 2011

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.


Thursday, November 17, 2011

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.

Thursday, November 10, 2011

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.