Well, the second period is done people. Let me tell you that this time I
felt comfortable with my job in the classroom. The communication with my tutor
was better than the last time, much better. This time, I was only in charge of
the practicing part about narrative tenses; nevertheless, I had to study the topic
again since I just remembered a little and I wanted to be sure and, mostly,
prepared in case that a student came up with a question. Fortunately,
everything went on well. The last class,
I had had problems with discipline. So this time, I was very clear with the
class and told them to please respect me. I told them that the fact that I was
doing my practices did not give them the right to disrespect me.
I got into the classroom and as I know my tutor, as a warm up, I just
asked questions about narrative tenses to which the students responded me
wisely. Right away, I started the class
checking a homework they had in the book. To solve this took me like 15
minutes. Afterwards, I developed a fill-in-the-blank activity (all of the
activities were written as they had already been practicing speaking). For this,
I gave the class 15 minutes as the page contained several exercises. Right after,
I started to check. I did the first one and then, I tried to include everyone in
the class so that each of them could tell me his/her answer. By the moment a
student was telling me the last answer, I had spent 50 minutes of my time, so I
knew that it was time to finish. I decided to start the last activity that I had
for them which was a reading. I gave directions and they started to work. The rest
of the activity was developed by my tutor, hopefully. It was in this way that I
developed my last practice of the second period. It’s been a tough period with
the practices and I’m hoping to have a better one next time. Thank you for
reading. Blessings.
Hello Georgy!!!!.....
ReplyDeleteI've been reading all of your entries, and it is nice to see how you've become a teacher. Difficult and nice moments are expected to happen in a class. Sometimes we can have certain advantage when we have knowledge of any experience, content, or students, but still I believe that are some variables we can't have control of. That is why as teachers we learn from each lesson or class.
Teaching is not as easy as it seems. There is a lot of hardwork into a class before the class itself.
About this class...
It is nice when you are sure or when you have everything prepared for a class...you feel confortable and confident with the topic. Reflecting upon that, we can realize that we are in control of the class, and time somehow flies since we are working with naturality. It is always a good idea to revise the lesson or topic which is to be developed even though we are already familiarize with it. There are always new things to learn and to remember.
We don't have to develop a lot of activities in a lesson. Sometimes you just need meaningful things that make students engaged to the content.
They practiced and worked in your class!! Good job Yorchy!!
Congratulations..!!! Second period is done!!! Ready for the third and last one!!!
Keep enjoying teaching!!!!.. ;)
Hy hi, so nice to know you could communicate with your tutor and saw the things you were to cover in your last class before you taught. Good way to start the class as they are advance students asking questions help them practice their speaking. lucky you as you just provided them with practice. It is always important to involve everybody when checking the answers because they feel part of the class, i always do it as well.
ReplyDeletehere we go for the last one!!!
Nice job teacher!