Unit 1. My family.
The first
class in teaching practicum started with good expectations. I had had a
previous experience in the micro teaching with children. It helped us a lot with
children. In the first week of practicum I really noticed that preparing lesson
plans and teaching the class is totally different. Naturaly, the first day of class
always create some nervousness and anxiety. Teachers tend to commit mistakes. Some
mistakes was made in the class such as
speaking in advance level because they
don’t pay attention to the English level of the students instead of they should speak less. The activity made in
the the warm up was kind of hard understand to the students, they need to use
gestures with hands and face or use visual materials. We can use gestures and
mime in many ways because of students need to understand the teachers indication.
Moreover, the tone of the voiced was a problem .Is important to project the
voice. Ingrid Viera a blogger teacher stated that: “The
teachers’ voice needs to be effective in a variety of circumstances”.
Teachers need to be audible. Students at the back of the class must be able to
hear them as well as those who are in the front.
In the other hand, we had learned that keeping the
energy high and being creativity with your lesson will make your students more
attentive. To be a dynamic teacher is so important, students feel in a comfortable
environment. Children enjoy the moments when the class is interactive, some of
the teachers in the second class were really dynamic and they catch the student’s
attention in an easier way. One of the teachers applied some words such as:
very good! Excellent! , and one of the principles of Audio Lingual Method
refers that teachers should give a positive reinforment because students feel
motive and they are more perceptive to participle in the class. Those things helps us to improve as a future teachers .I would to like
to known if use of real material sometimes it can interrupt the
activities and get students distractive.
Listening class
Teaching the vocabulary
I still remember our first class was sensational as you get on in front of your children although the nerves of the moment.
ReplyDeleteyeah , is true Beatriz .It always happen. It remind me the workshop where we learned to lose the nerves , but with the experience we learn to control it
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