UNIT 4. The body parts

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/

 http://www.wikihow.com/Dress-when-You're-a-Teacher

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”.

http://www.valuewalk.com/2014/01/why-its-important-to-remember-peoples-names/

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.