My second teaching experience

                                                       Monday, February 11^th 2013

Hello once again!

I’m so excite it to tell you about my second experience because everything went so well; it was wonderful to me, I didn’t have any problems with anything, of course, my tutor and peer gave me a couple of suggestions for the things that I need to improve, but I feel very, very satisfied with my performance of that day.

Some of the things that really help me to be less stress and consequently teach better were the facts that I could work on my lesson plan as well as rest during the weekend; in addition, I applied all the pieces of advice that my tutor gave me in my previous feedback.

What went well after all?

Everything went well thanks GOD. I began the class with a mimic game and I gave all students a candy to motivate them. Then, I used a short reading, which had many pictures; students listened to the audio's reading and then I asked some comprehension questions about it. Finally, students underlined the sentences that had the target grammatical structure, which was the simple present tense. For the next activity, students stood up and worked in groups of four to discuss some questions for 5 minutes. The last two activities were the ones that students enjoyed the most since I developed them outside the classroom, on the basketball court for being more specific. For the penultimate activity, which was called “find someone who…?”, I asked students to make a circle in order to give them directions about it and then to check their results. For the wrap –up, I developed a TPR activity in which students needed to speak and listen to their classmates too; it was called “Swap place if you…”.

About my feedback:

Well, I’d like to share it because I think it can be very helpful for you too guys. Among the positive observations that my tutor gave me were: enthusiasm, good CCQ, good transitions among activities, good activities, good interaction with students and he also liked that at the beginning of the class I gave students a piece of paper so that they could write their name on it and paste it on their chest. On the other hand, my tutor advised me to do not give too many directions at the same time; this is something that I already knew, but that I couldn’t avoid at the moment of teaching. Hence, my tutor shared with me a technique to give directions better; he told me to use only three verbs at once, for example: “Stand up, come to the board and work in groups of four”.

So, this was my second teaching experience at UNICAES and I really enjoyed it; I really hope that the rest of them can be even better and I wish the same for you too.