UNIT 4 .
PARTS OF THE BODY
Since we had three units teaching, we expected that
now is not more difficult than before. We had been acquiring more experience
and the feedback has been helping us a lot.
Talking in
general about the vocabulary class in the unit 4 as first hand, the class was really nice, children catch
the attention and nice flashcards was presented. Teachers make the effort to
prepare materials using their hands and it helps us to support them in the
lesson that they are teaching. Additionally, teachers should make short
questions to the students in the moment when they are presenting new topic,
because it allow them to keep activate. In another hand, is important to take
in account that students need to work together. The teacher is the responsible
of controlling all students working at the same time, because sometimes
occur that teachers assign an activity , but not all of them are working .In my own experience , I
provided some worksheets to all students, but a girl was in the trashcan with a sharpener and a pen , I
saw her but unconsciously I though that she was working,unfortunaly all of them worked in the ejecices but
no was the case of the little gril. Some students are distractive .It often happen . Now, I learned for the
experiencie that teachers need to be
conscious that all students are working in the task assingned.
In grammar class the experience is different
to the others class, the aim is different but is as important as others. It was
our second experience preparing grammar classes . Therefore, teachers should show more security
presenting grammar structure.I kn
ew that is important pay attention when
students are in practice , because in this stages they are internalizing
,recognicing the grammar structure, so that , depending the quality that they are
acquiring , they will produce .If students make something worng ,such as
misspealling , pronunciation we should correct them.. Kenneth Beare , a a ESL trainer and
content developer explained that :“If I don’t allow students to make
mistalkes,I will take away from the natural natural learning process required
to achieve competency ( ).”This means that teacher should allow those mistakes
because is natural .However, I consider that teacher need urgentely correct
them but corrections should only made when students will recieved the most
benefit , because if we don’t do that , their will acquire the target language in
a wrong way ,and as a teachers we are
not competent and need to be more prepared because as a Audiolingual method
says in the page 43 that teachers acts as a facilitator reinforicing and helping
students to acquiere the language.
Listening
class, probably could be one of the most difficult skills to teach.For this reason,we
need to be careful and to be focus in the results that we pretend to get .In
adittion, in this class good activities was provided, the audio was really
good, how the activities was related to the audio and it was the key why
students understood the listening , the process in which all of the activities
had been working was effectively . Students were active and respond to all
activities .Also, I would like to mention as I said before, teachers should
make short questions.Teachers need to take in consideration that we don’t try to
ask questions that they don’t know because they not understand us. “Speak less
and modeling more” is a phrase that always we should be taken into account .
Finally, reading
class is interesting, now we are familiar preparing reading . The class was well prepared and the
activities was well made.Primarly, there are some essential things related to the
teacher’s profile. First, talking in the apareance teacher should look like a teacher. The clothe item is
important , because it project the image and the profile of the teacher, I
found an interesting information that show us somo tips to how to dress like a
teacher: https://www.reddit.com/r/femalefashionadvice/comments/2135ly/dressing_like_a_teacher_some_considerations/
Second, the
teachers attitude is important. Teacher’s attitude and actions can leave
lasting and impressions.Effective teachers genuinely care, like, accept and
valued their students.These teachers demonstrate kindness, share responsibility,
accept diverse,foster individualy instriucture and encourage creativity. As a
result to this, students feel confortable and they will show respect to the
teacher.In another hand,I knew that is so important to call students by
theirnames.Tricia Drevets a writer specialized in education and communications explained
that “We feel more valued and respected when someone remember ours names. When
you use someone’s name,it shows that you see that person as individual”.
What I
would like to know is how to provided differnets forms to motive students with
the reading, In my case I condisder that it is one of the most difficult activity.
