viernes, 27 de mayo de 2016

Myt third experience with basic English students third period


Describe
On May 26th, it was my last teaching practice with Basic English students in UNICAES. Students were around 24 in total. It was around 09:10 am. The sitting arrangement was in a horse shoe way. The classroom was appropriate to the number of students. My tutor was sitting at one side in classroom. I was developing the last activity. Students were looking at me, and I was asking them to write five sentences on their notebooks, by using the vocabulary that we had already studied in the class. Some of them were not so happy to do some, and I had to push them to do it and they tried. I give them enough time to do the activity, and while they were writing their sentences, I was monitoring them. When most of them had finished, I asked them to share their sentences with the rest of the class. I gave the chance to each student to share at list one sentence, so one by one were sharing their sentence, and I was correcting some grammar mistakes when one by one finished to read his/her sentence. There were two students that did not write anything by the moment I asked their sentence, so I pushed those to do it meanwhile other students were sharing their. At the end all students shared their sentence and they used the vocabulary that was taught them.
(Analyze)
Plan Action
Interpret
Generalize

I noticed that students do not like to write sentences.

Based on what I observed, I think all students do not like too much to write.


The will encourage my students about the importance of the written practice, and help them to do it.
I observed that two students were not writing anything when it was asked to do it.
It is important that all students get involved on the activities developed.
I will give always push my students to get involved on the activities.  

My second experience with basic English students third period.



Describe
On May 20th, I was in my second teaching practice with Basic English students in UNICAES of the third period. Students were around 25 in total. It was around 8: 40 am. The sitting arrangement was in a horse shoe way. The classroom was appropriate to the number of students. My tutor was sitting at one side in classroom. I was on time to start the class. Students were expecting what I was going to do, so I started the class by greeting them followed by a warm-up activity, it was mimicking clothing items because the class was related with that, and they previously had studied that vocabulary; thus I divided students into two groups, and I explain them the activity carefully by giving them examples about what they had to do. They chose one representative from each group who was going to mimic, and the representative from each group passed to the front. I asked one student to set the time, and the activity started. The group of students was not allowed to speak but the representative. All of them were doing their best in order to help their representative to guess what the pictures were about. 
(Analyze)
Plan Action
Interpret
Generalize

I noticed that the students were doing what was asked them to do.

Based on what I observed, I think all students understood since the very beginning what they had to do.


The next time I teach this lesson, I will try to give clear instructions in order to help student to achieve the goal of every activity planned.
I observed that all students knew all the vocabulary presented in the pictures.
It is important to start the class with an interactive activity that includes something that students already know.
I will give always plan a warm-up activity in order to help students to get involved in the topic that is going to be studied in the class.  

domingo, 8 de mayo de 2016

My first experience with Basic English Students Third period


Describe
On May 6th, I was in my first teaching practice with Basic English students in UNICAES. Students were around 25 in total. It was around 9:15 am. The sitting arrangement was in a horse shoe. This time the classroom was appropriate to the number of students. My tutor was sitting at one side in classroom. I was about to develop the last activity of the class, so I asked students to join in trios (I chose the trios), and to stand up. All student were followed directions some slower than others but all were working. After that, I explained them that they have to develop a discussion about the best clothing item to wear for every occasion. Some of them were kind of afraid to start the conversation, so in some groups I helped them to start the conversation by giving my own opinion, and they immediately did it. They were discussing about five minutes when I asked them to choose the best idea from their trio, and they did it. One by one representative from the trios was giving his or her opinions about the discussion using the target vocabulary.  
(Analyze)
Plan Action
Interpret
Generalize

I noticed that the students were afraid to speak at the beginning of the discussion.

Based on what I observed, I think that probably it was because they were not too comfortable with their trios because I chose them.



The next time I teach this lesson, I will give them the chance to choose their classmates.

I observed that all the representatives were participating and sharing their ideas.
It is necessary to give student the chance to speak and expose their ideas.
I will give always plan on my futures lessons activities in which students could have the opportunity to speak.