Teaching Technical English, class 2

Thursday, September 9,2010
This week has been full of pivoral experiences that have helped me to be alert during the class taking into account the social circumstances and the enviroment of the students and how it influences in the learning aquisition and levels of attention of the class. Today there were a lot of distractions in the class and one of the biggest was the fact that the whole country is suffering a social disturbances related to violence and delinquence. I could feel the students´fear during the class. Even though there were 12 of 23 students in the class,I had to apply extra effort in order to make them feel comfortable. At least I wanted to make them forget about the danger and try to focus on the class. The topic was about clothes and weather conditions and it was excellent to use adjectives to describe the weather conditions for today because it was raining and it was hot at the same time. During the warm up they had to use their memory to remember different clothes using the letters of the alphabet and running to write first than the rest. After that, they practice a conversation in which they talked about the weather and it was pretty nice seeing that they liked to practice in front of the class. They were active even when some of them were saying rumors about the danger situations that they were also facing. I could notice that they try to feel calm and help their classmates to be positive. It helped us to feel the class shorter. The classroom management was nice because there were few students and they could work in small groups they made collages of clothes according to the seasons and weather conditions. The time management was not excellent ,but acceptable because I could finish with all the activities programmed. I would like to continue with the same group the last period because they are so positive and kind. If I had to teach this lesson again , I would like to use more colorful flash cards because this time I didn´t bring the ones I wished to use.