Last class in the first period.

Life is a challenge, live and overcome it. (I am the author of this :P)

I started with a phrase because my class was about challenges not only for me but also for the students. Today, the class was about practices such as a reading and a listening practice. I also reviewed the simple present tense with them. They understood that very well, and it makes me glad since they are moving forward in their studies. The reading practice was short but nice, and they are very good at reading as I could observe. Also the listening practice was a little hard, but they did their best. I suggested them to watch movies on English with English subtitles to get used to the vocabulary. I had some problems because as we know, nothing is perfect although we must look for perfection every time we perform or do something. The only problem I had was that some students did not understand so well the recording for the listening; anyways, they are in the Basic English level, but I know they will do their best to overcome that issue. I am glad because the group was very nice.

This time, they were not so participative, and it makes me think that I must find a new way to motivate and make the class more dynamic. So if you have any suggestion for it, let me know please :). Cheers.

Second class.

Well, my second class experience was a little harder than the first one, but as future teacher, I must be aware that unexpected situations will always come up wheter you are ready or not. I cannot complain about it because I know I did my best, and somehow, I liked the adrenaline hahaha. Well, I started with a dictation about family. The teacher uploaded the material for the students in moodle, but they did not get the material, so in my mind, there were so many thoughts at the same time lol. What was I to do? Well, if I had not my classmate and friend in the classroom, I would not have done anything well. I told him to photocopy the material since the students did not have it. Meanwhile, I was dictating them. When I finished dictating, George came back with the photocopies just in time! Anyways, I had to draw a family tree which was in the material that they did not get. I drew it as you can see on the picture. I could have a very nice experience even though it was a quick reflex that I had to continue with the class as if anything happened.

Well, we can never predict what will happen in a class. You give the material to your students, but what if any of them did not take it to class? You have to play with your mind and find a good way to fix and move on. I learned it, and I am proud that I could manage it very well hahahaha.

First class experience

Well, I am in the basic English group with teacher Alex. Today, Friday, February 8th was my first teaching experience. It was a very nice experience for different factors. I would like to point out what they are. Also, not everything will be always perfect, though; I know I must improve in many areas in order to enrich my way of teaching. It has been great to teach in this group for so many reasons, but I will talk about two specifically.

First of all, the group has a little knowledge about English, and they speak English most of the time. This is something that I like because they know what they have to do in order to acquire a very good level of English. Also, there are some students who find English hard, but they do their best in order to learn how to develop themselves in the target language. Besides, the students of this group are doing their best on every activity assigned to them. 

Second of all, they are always willing to participate in every activity. There was no need for me to ask them to participate because voluntarily, they raised their hand and performed with my activity. This tells me that they are willing to learn leaving shyness aside. I really like this because this group is very close and participative without caring about making mistakes, which is common to learn. They performed the activity very well. The activity was a dialogue, which they learned and later performed.

As a conclussion, teaching in the university is a great opportunity since you have the chance to interact with adults who know what they want in life so that they are aware of what studying in college means. I am eager to teach next week, and I hope I can do it even better than I did today.