My Third Teaching Practice

Hello there, this is Nery, once again! Now, I will explain you how my third and final teaching practice with my Basic English Ss was. This was a very meaningful class because I could developed all the activities on time. It is important to mention that I was teaching how to give instructions of places by using some prepositions of place (in, on, at).

            I used a common, but still effective, filling in the black activity in order to make my Ss reviewing about the topic. Since many of the Ss were still having problems to uderstand the usage of the prepositions, I provided them with a piece of paper that contained extra information about the usage of prepositions. After that activity, I had the Ss working in groups of four. Then, I provided them with a sheet of paper that contained information about a public event so that they will have to use wh-words to make some questions for them to investigate about any of the events. The following activity was a dictation practice, which was very short, but related with our context.

   

Finnaly, I ended my class with a very nice wrap up where they just had to count from one to ten, for and back, and then all together, but one at a time without repeting any number because in that case they will had to start the game, again.

My second Teaching Practice!

     Hi there! This is Nery, once again, to report how my second class was. I will start saying that I was kind of nervous, but ready to teach. Once I reached the classroom (A35) at 8:25 and started writing the objective on the board and, suddenly, one of the Ss approached me and asked if I could tell him about my beginning of my major. "Of cource," I said and started to tell him that it was not that easy but if you love English you will do it just better than I did. Why am I writing this? It is because rapport between T and Ss is really important in the classroom. Actually, one of the suggestions made by my mentor in the first teaching practice to be more enthusiastic.

     The activities for that were pretty simple, but still interesting for all the Ss. I developed a warm up called Awake, Alert, Alive, Enthusiastic. It goes like:

Lyrics:

I am awake, alert, alive, enthusiastic!

I am awake, alert, alive, enthusiastic!

I am awake, alert, alive,

alive.alert, awake...

I am awake, alert, alive, enthusiastic!

Mimics:

awake: hands on head

alert: hands on shoulders

alive: hands in front of the chest
enthusiastic: hands up!


     You might realice that the topic that I was teaching prepositions of time and place, so this warm up worked as teaching them inductively, as well.

     A second important fact from my teaching is that when I was developing one of the activities, one of the Ss did not understand how to use one of the prepositions and she asked me to explain it in Spanish. First of all, I said that Spanish was not allowed for me, so she said that she will ask to the T, this is my mentor, but, immediately, I said that it was necessary because I was going to explain it to her. At the end of the class, my mentor told me that what I did in that moment was just what teachers must do in those moments because then they show that they know what they are doing. I felt very nice when listening to my mentor saying that.

My First Teaching Practice    

 Hello everyone! This is Nery Mendoza and now you will see how my first teaching practice was.  It was on Monday, February 1st, 2017 in the room B34 at 8:30 a.m. Well, being in front of 28, or more, Ss might be not really easy for any new teacher. That is what actually happened in my very first class because I was nervous at the very beginning. I greeted all the Ss and started the class praying (one of them helped me). Right after that, I provided the Ss with a piece of paper for them to write their names. It took me around 4 minutes. 

    The following step on my agenda for that day was to develop a warm up. The one that I developed is called "One, two, clap!". It is pretty simple because what Ss have to do is only not to say every multiple of three because if someone do it, that person was going to have a penalty. The penalties were very simple as well, since they just have to answer some reviewing questions.

     Then, I continued with the introduction of new vocabulary about nationalities, birthplace, hometown, and professions or occupations . I consider that part as the best of my teaching of that day, becuase all Ss understood both spealling and pronunciation. Moreover, my mentor told me ( when she was giving me feedback) that vocabulary presentation was the best managed part of my teaching because I did step by step and little by little.

     Finally, I ended my first teaching practice with an activity in wich Ss had to collect personal information about their T or classmates by filling in a small chat on a sheet of paper and write a pargraph by using that personal information. Doing this last activity, I could reach the objective for that class.