Teaching practicum 1

After my first teaching practice, I can say that it was a nice experience. Though I did not have too much time to plan the lesson, I really took advantage of the hours I got. More than nervous, I felt I was anxious. The day finally had come, and I was ready to teach. I arrived early to the classroom since I had some material to organize. The class started and, at the very beginning, I was a bit nervous but not as I expected to be. I made clear some points I considered to be necessary before starting the lesson. I talked about how discipline and respect are important in a class. Having clarified those two points, I encouraged my students to be self-confident; I told them something I was told by one of my teachers. “The worst thing that can happen is that you make a mistake, and if that happens we just correct”; furthermore, mistakes are proof that we are trying ,I said. Then students notice that sometimes it is necessary to make mistakes in order to learn something.

Afterwards, I started with my lesson. First, my students played “hangman”. I used the game as a warm up activity. I prepared some materials for that class, so I started with a collage since the topic I taught was professions. Then, I use a chart with some information which matched with the collage. I tried to involve my students the most possible I could at the beginning of the class as the next steps were very controlled, and they mostly will work individually. The next point on the agenda was some exercises on determiners. It was a written activity. For that, I gave my students a piece of paper and some minutes to complete them. Later on, I checked the exercise along with them by individually asking some people to respond. In a while, I had passed to the next moment of the lesson. In this case, my students had to participate orally. I asked a series of questions to each of them; however, I was asking them to respond either positive or negative since that was the aim of the activity.

Finally, my part of the session had come to the end. The activity consisted on some drills based on some sentences which the students had to change into questions. I asked individual questions; everybody participated, and it was in that way that my first teaching practicum finished.