It is my last journal about My Teaching Practicum Experiences at UNICAES in 2010. I will never forget this time of my life not only because it means a huge step in my learning process, but also because it represents an infinitive amount of new methodologies that I am challenged to implement in my practice as a teacher. I have learned from every tutor as well as from every single student to see my weaknesses and work to improve them to teach English. My classmates have taught me to be a better professional,too.
This class was developed through the activities suggested by my tutor who is a great professional and that has a great responsability. The topic was about " Traveling" and the target structure was Present perfect. I guided a practice of the verbs through the warm up in which the students got involved easily. Then they identified some tenses of different verbs on the wall and they remembered through a review of the principal tenses ,the changes in structures of the irregular verbs. I showed them a poster with different forms of the structures in Present Perfect ; they analized the sentences and check the forms changes in the auxiliaries.
At the end of my class, they gathered in groups to create their own sentences in a chart placed on the wall to fill in the blanks with the parts of the sentences that were missed... They took a tour around the classroom to check their classmates´job. I think it was a nice activity because the students finished very fast and they didn´t have many error corrections. Time managment was better than any other class .The sitting arrangement was acceptable because there were only 9 students in the class, they could work in a semi circle. If I had to teach this topic again I would probably provide more flashcards instead of the words of the verbs.
This class was developed through the activities suggested by my tutor who is a great professional and that has a great responsability. The topic was about " Traveling" and the target structure was Present perfect. I guided a practice of the verbs through the warm up in which the students got involved easily. Then they identified some tenses of different verbs on the wall and they remembered through a review of the principal tenses ,the changes in structures of the irregular verbs. I showed them a poster with different forms of the structures in Present Perfect ; they analized the sentences and check the forms changes in the auxiliaries.
At the end of my class, they gathered in groups to create their own sentences in a chart placed on the wall to fill in the blanks with the parts of the sentences that were missed... They took a tour around the classroom to check their classmates´job. I think it was a nice activity because the students finished very fast and they didn´t have many error corrections. Time managment was better than any other class .The sitting arrangement was acceptable because there were only 9 students in the class, they could work in a semi circle. If I had to teach this topic again I would probably provide more flashcards instead of the words of the verbs.
Iris, I really liked your class especially the last activity. I guess you had a very active class. I have something to tell you: WE FINISHED THIS EXPERIECE!! but, remember that this is not the end. This is the beginning of our teaching experience. I always loved the way you worked. Believe it or not, i learned many things about your teaching style. I will try to use some of the activities you shared with us in your blog. Most of the activities you mentioned were always interesting and funny.
ResponderEliminarNice job, Iris!!!