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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Plan
Action
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Interpret
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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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miércoles, 7 de octubre de 2015
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Do not worry that much about time, it is better to make sure the activity you do gets the students mind and they learn and apply what you teach. Three-well prepared activities are better than many that you could not finish. What do you think? Set your time, but also give them a considerable time to think.
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