TEACHING

 

PRACTICE 2

As time goes on I am getting more and more experiences in my teaching practicum, and I feel like every day there is something new to learn. In this second practice the topic was “music tastes”. I really liked this topic because when students hear the word MUSIC they get excited, and they want to say their likes and dislikes on music. Well, first able, I started with “hot potatoes’ game”. I could say that it was an excellent activity. I included questions related to the topic, and I must say that they enjoyed it. I really liked when students like something because they got fun and learned at the same time. Then, they had to read Music Taste in which people describe what they  do when they are listening to music, what they do not like about music, etc. After reading this they worked on a true and false activity, based on the reading. Then, I asked for the respective answers.  Then, they had to compare their likes based on the reading, as well. In this last activity that I mentioned students had troubles on comparing their likes because they have to follow a pattern, and they did not get what they had to do until I explained again, and I made an example by my own. At the end, they did it which is the most important thing. The next activity was that they had to answer some questions about their music taste individually. After doing this they shared their answers with the class and then, we finished with a comparison activity in which they had to compare likes with their partners, and share with the class, too. What I really did not like is that I did not finish all the activities. There was missing one in which they had to make a conversation. Sometimes we expect to do all the things that we had planned, but just God knows what will really happen. Now, I must say that the students that I am working with do not understand when I am giving a direction; therefore, I have to teach or explain step by step the examples and writing them on the board, or if it is possible make gestures as much as I can. In that way they will know what to do, and what I am trying to say.

TEACHING PRACTICUM 1

This was the first time that I teach at the university. I would like to say that it was nice because it is an experience that none forget in life. To get nervous is common for most of us, but in my case I am admired with myself because I did not get nervous, and that`s good. So in this practice I taught “Prepositions of Place”; I developed some activities such as sentence strips, city map exercises and some listening comprehensions. In the city map students were giving me directions, and they were asking and answering questions in couples, as well. While I was teaching something happened I made a listening comprehension in which students had to follow the conversation and write the correct numbers, and just few students understood the listening so what I did is that I paused the conversation sentence by sentence, and in that way they got it. I did another conversation in that way as well, and they did it better. Therefore, i think that I need to improve in this in order to have better results. I think that it is an experience that I will never forget, and that I have to put it into practice whenever I make a listening. This is the only bad thing that happened but them everything went great. What I really like is that I managed time in an excellent way I finished what I had to teach. Another thing that I also liked is the last activity that I did, it was an activity in which they have to say the direction that I was asking for and they did it in a very nice way. They also have a true and false activity and they did it in a correct way, too. Hence, I must say that my objective was fulfilled. I did my best in this class, and I enjoyed it a lot.