Tuesday,28th,2012.

Tuesday, February, 28th, 2012.

Today was my fourth and last (I guess) teaching practicum from this period.  This day was very challenging. I received the topic on time, fortunately, but there was no lesson plan so I had to create my own which in a way was great because I could do it on my own rythm.

The big challenge for me was the topic “phrasal verbs”!! I was so worry I didn`t know where to start. Phrasal verbs were of those topics that were taught while I was sleeping. (hahahaha) Well, anyways I had to do it. I started preparing everything and looking for information about it.

It was very confusing because one thing takes me to another thing. At the end it was a big map of verbs to learn and to understand. The day before the class I didn`t sleep well, I was thinking on everything. What could they ask me? Are they going to understand me? What will I do if they don`t? L UUfff so many things!!

The day of the class I tried no to be nervous but I couldn`t hahaha. Well I started the class so normal, as usual I developed the warm up and the presentation so well but I was thinking about grammar notes!

When the moment came I tried to look confident, and to explain things as I understood it. I made an effort not to complicate myself at the time of the explanation because otherwise it will be a mess. I guess they understood well because some of them were asking things and they were not so confused. There was only one boy who was there to make my life impossible haha. He was checking all my pronunciation mistakes and saying that he has traveled to the U.S so he knew more than me.(jijiji) that may be true, but may be not!  He was not paying attention in the class but all my mistakes of pronunciation so, what I did? I started asking him things to make him participate and to let him know that he had to pay attention to the explanation. That worked a lot.

Well now I feel relieved. I did it! It was very hard to make my first teaching practicum but thanks God I did it. Now I´m positive for next period and let´s wait things will go better in the next group I have to teach. Good Luck for everyone!

Tuesday, 21, 2012.

Today was my third teaching practicum. I`m really confused about it. I don`t know if what I did was ok. First, most of the class was to check the student`s homework. The teacher gave me the book some days before for me to check which the homework was. But she forgot to send me the lesson plan where it was the exercises. I sent her an e-mail to remember her about it but maybe she didn`t see it. I received the lesson plan just the night before the class and very late I don`t know why. Today morning I was so anxious because I didn`t have enough time to check what I was going to teach.Since I tried to print the lesson plan it became too late for me because my printer was having problems.

I arrived to the class and I founded out that what I prepared was not exactly what I was to teach so I became more nervous than I was because I knew I was not prepared enough and I mixed all the thoughts I had in mind. I started the class and I made an activity that I had prepared. Everything was ok with that but when the part of checking homework came I had some problems. I know it was my fault not to insist on having the lesson plan before and that is the reason I didn`t prepare myself well. I prepared two more activities just in case but checking homework took a lot of time. I only had the answers of the homework and it was very difficult for me to be guessing what they were talking about.

Some students notice that I was not well prepared and started asking many things trying to confuse me. I did my best answering their questions but maybe in some cases they were not completely satisfied. I think for next class I know what I will do and it is to be more prepared  and to do my best at getting the lesson plan on time. I hope next class I won`t be as nervous as I was today and things will go better.

My 2nd teaching practicum

Today was a different that from what I expected. As ussually I was very nervous.I was being really negative. I thought that everything was going wrong.I need a listening but I couldnt have it to take it home to prepare myself. I had to look for the teacher who had it just some minutes before the class started. I was so worry and wondering what would happen if the listening didn`t work 


For my surprise things were ok. The teacher helped to play it and students could perfectly  listen to it. After this activitiy I started to feel better because things were going well. I tryed to be more entusiasthic with students because last class the teacher told me I should. I think I did my best but it was not enough because I had a lower grade in enthusiasm. There may be something missing. For next class I will find it out.


Students were cooperating more than the last class so I felt happy and proud of what I was doing. I still feel so nervous. It is really big I feel like if I cannot control it but I hope next class will be better. I`m doing my best and I try to be prepare for possible questions. In that way I will feel more confident with myself.

My first teaching practicum :-D

Tuesday,7th,2012.

Today was my first teaching experience. It was really nice but I was very nervous. The teacher was really open and flexible with consults before the class.I think that the teacher gave me a lot of confidence and that helped me to do my best. The students are really nice despite the fact that they are a lot(25) they cooperated so well.

I arrived early to place the desks in semi-circle but it was not completely possible because the classroom is quite short.I started the class with a game that for the results I can say everybody liked it. The students were participating and cooperating withouth inconvenients. I think the only thing that affected me was that I forgot to asign time for the activities and I only cover two activites during the hour. That is something I need to keep in mind for my second class.I t was hard to be there but I think with time I will be able to cope with. I`m doing my best for things go well. I hope next class will be better because I know the mistakes I made this time and I will try not to get on those mistakes again.