Describe
My last class was really good because I felt so
confident and exited because I was about to finish my practicum. For, I try
to make a different warm up. What I did was that I took them to an imaginary
scenario; they closed their eyes and I was guiding them into a trip in their
mind. At the end I made them questions about specific details of their
imaginary trip. The next activity was a reading about meetings in different
countries and they made groups of four ss and the last activity was a
presentation based on the reading.
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I could
notice that the students were with their eyes closed and enjoyed the
imaginary trip.
I could see that at the moment of the reading activity they were very attentive, they payed attention while I was reading.
When they
were in groups. I was explaining to one group what they were supposed to do and
I was focus on them; then I notice that a group started to speak of different
topics they were not on task at the moment
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Based on what I saw warm up activities can be
different once in a while. Because they were very active in the class despite
the activity was not about to be moving.
I could observe that it is very important to give
them time for them to read and look for new words in a reading and write them
in the board and explain the meaning.
Monitoring is very important because if I pay too much attention to one side of the classroom the other side will be chaos. |
In future lessons I will consider to include this activity
without over use it.
In the future I will try to include inside the
reading a glossary of probable’s new words.
Next time I will try to provide indications in more
simple ways. In that way I will monitor the classroom the whole time.
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lunes, 23 de noviembre de 2015
Describe
The second class I felt really good because this
time the classes were in a different classroom. The place had a lot of space
and the weather was fine, the environment was very appropriate for learning.
The warm up was very good because students really liked it. Students made a
circle and I gave them a ball, one ss was in the middle of the circle while
the students forming the circle were passing the ball behind them. The
student had to guess who had the ball, if he did not guess he had a penalty.
The following activities were very good because ss were on task all the time.
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I could
notice that the students really enjoyed the warm up. Their attitude was very
enthusiastic because they did not want to finish the activity.
The second activity required that students were facing each other and asks questions about animals.
The next
exercise they did it in groups of three and they did it in their seats.
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Based on
what I saw, students enjoyed interact with each other while they speak,
laugh, entertain, and practice English.
Based on what I observed, I could notice that having
two activities that require students be standing is not so suitable because
the interest diminishes.
I could notice that they were on task all the time and their attitude toward the activity was very nice. |
So, in the future, I will do prepare activities in
which students have more contact among them.
In future lessons I will try to combine the activities
and not having TPR activities in arrow.
Next time I´ll provide them activities in groups
because they seem to like this kind of activities.
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domingo, 22 de noviembre de 2015
Describe
I can say that my first class this last period was
good because I had a previous teaching experience with that group of students;
so, it was very nice working with them again because I felt very confident. The
warm up activity was very nice because all the students enjoyed talking about
animals. I made a review about passive voice and all the students were
attentive in class.
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I could
notice that the students were very excited in the warm up activity.
I could see that at the moment of explaining the grammar about passive voice many students have doubts about the topic.
When they
were doing the exercise I provided them they were a little confused.
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Based on
what I saw, I think that students really enjoy interacting among them.
Based on what I observed, I think that I did not
provide the appropriate explanation to the topic; in which the students could
understand the topic very well
I could notice that my grammar explanation was not enough to cover the students ‘need of knowledge to apply it in the practice. |
So, in the future, I will do many activities like
this one in which students talk and interact among them paying attention to
provide them interesting topics.
In future lessons I will try to explain the topic in the simplest way, I will try to provide them only the necessary information to understand the topic.
Next time I will try not to complicate at the moment
of explaining grammar; I will try to do it in a concise way.
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miércoles, 7 de octubre de 2015
Describe
The topic
of my second class was Quantifiers. I arranged the desk in a horseshoe form,
in that way I could have more contact with students. I greeted the students
with enthusiasm, they were very active. As I prepared everything beforehand,
I think this class was good. The only problem that I had was with the time I
set to the activities. I always ran out of time. I believe I this is my main
problem.
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I started the class with an activity in which
the students were in a circle and the ss that was inside had to guess who had
the ball; if he did not guess he must say an example of the quantifiers. In that
way I made a review about the previous class. The students were motivated
playing and at the same time they were learning.
Then I made pairs and gave them fill in the blank
exercise.
After that they have to create a story based on
quantifiers.
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Based on what I observed, I think students generally
enjoy activities in groups where movement and thinking are involved. Because they play and have fun and at the
same time they can learn something new or clarify something that was not
clear previously.
I believe that this kind of exercises are good to
practice, but is not so good to overuse them because students get bored.
In this activity the students took too much time so
the teacher started to look at her watch, which made me feel uncomfortable so,
I was rushing the students.
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In the future, I will try to include more activities
like this one, in which fun and knowledge are together.
In future lessons I will try to create another
activity because this activity might result somehow tedious for the students.
In future classes I will try organize my time,
and make sure I give the appropriate time and importance to each activity
because I always prepare many activities which I cannot develop.
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Describe
In
general terms I can say that my first class was very good, I felt happy because
I felt comfortable with the students, for sure that gave me the confidence to
develop my class in more dynamic way. At the beginning of the class, I
introduce myself to the Intermediate I students later on, I developed a warm
up activity in which they have to spell a word without making the sound of
vowels; instead they had to mimic, they performed the activity with
enthusiasm. After that I started the class with grammar explanation of WH
questions using Past Progressive. Later I provide them some fill in the
blanks practice. Finally ss had practice rearranging the sentences and they
have to run to the board and write the sentence
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I could
notice that some students participated actively in the warm-up. Although in
the practice they were less active.
Some students had problems with the pair-work.
When
explaining the practice for them, students were a little bit confused.
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Based
on what I saw, I think they need to fell motivated to learn, if not they
would could not pay attention to what they are learning.
Based
on what I observed, I think that these students need to feel comfortable with
the person they are working.
I believe that I should explain practice in a better way so I would have to waste time by repeating the same explanation. |
So, in
the future, I will try to transmit motivation to my students because I think
it will help in the comprehension of the class.
In future lessons I will prepare more risked tasks for the students to think, and analyze rather than having a simple conversation
The
next time I will try to explain the activities in a less complicated way,
with few words and be more concise
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