Thursday.19.2012.
Finally, my last class of the period. I have to say that with practices I have gained a lot of experience and I learnt a lot about basic students. When I started to work with this group I treat them as I used to do it with intermediate students but imediatly I noticed that they are quite different. Since they are begginers I need more patience to work with them because they are slower and for some of them is very hard to understand everything. Another thing that I learnt was that with them I have to be all the time checking if they are speaking english because they LOVE to speak spanish.


When I started the class I was afraid that the warm up I had was not good. I had a teddy bear and they had to invent a story about it. At the beggining the students didnt want to talk and were making faces  :-s :-(.I started wondering and thinking: Oh!! I shouldnt bring this activity!!! but later they started to participate and talk more. At the end everybody was laughing and talking about it which was great because they were practicing english.
Teacher told me that she liked it a lot because those activities pushed them to speak, which is great.


I continued with the rest of the activities and everything went so natural and I finally get over nervous. At the beggining I was nervous because someone else was there observing me (Xavier hahaha) but than I tried to relax and ignore that the tutor and my classmate were there and I just develop the class. I really liked this experience it is more difficult to teach basic students for me because I needeed to be really patience and to repeat a lot of things but I liked it and enjoyed it I felt by the first time like a real teacher :-). Let`s expect next period will be as good as this one or better. Good luck and best wishes for everybody.

Thursday, 12,2012.
Today was my third teaching practicum in basic english course. I recieved what I was suposse to teach one day before the class but I had enough time to prepare my class. The topic irregular verbs in past tense and it was focused in sports so I finally could use my flashcards. Flashcards are a great help at teaching time I observe how students respond to it they were very motivated watching the draws and paying attention to me that was really nice.


 Later, I had to read a long list of irregular verbs for the students know the correct pronounciation of each verb. Tha was kind of hard and boring because they were repeating the same but that`s the only way they can get the real pronounciation. Since they are begginers its hard for some of them to understand directions and I need to repeat a lot of times what they will do.It was also hard to encourage them to speak english they love to speak spanish. But I felt a big satisfaction when saw most of them understand what I was talking about. The teacher told me that I just need to be more enthusiastic with them. I thought I was, but maybe I need to be more enthusiastic.


When teacher gave me feedback there were not big mistakes or things to correct just lillte details some words that I misspronounce but in general the class was good and Im happy because it`s been hard but Im finally feeling like a teacher. I think that tutors had a big role on our develop because they encourage us to continue and to be better its really nice to know that you are doing good and that Im not as lose as I thouhgt. The last class in this grupo is coming and I hope I will do good with it.