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.
Time management can be an issue even for experienced teachers. I also noticed that most classrooms seem small for the large groups that usually attend basic english classes. I wish we all do better this week!
ResponderEliminarI like to read that everybody is doing well in this experience Keny. In fact, you don`t have a lot of students; let me tell you that in my group there are 30 and in lili`s group there are about 32 I guess. So be happy :D hahaha
ResponderEliminarOhh, and for sure that this week everybody are going to have a better class, including you and me, of course!!!
I think you have to see the positive side. The more students you have the more experiences you learn from them. I know much of the time is really challenging to manage a class with so many students, but remember that in the learning process we as teachers acquire experiences from the different situations that take place in the classroom thanks to the diverse circumstances the learners develop during the teaching-learning process.
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