My first Teaching Practice !!

 My  first teaching practice was on February 14 , in basic level and the topic was "Prepositions of Place" it was really nice and important experience for me, It was so difficult  to prepared the class, because I wanted to do the best of myself as a teacher but I had never teach in the university and I look so young and that really worried me, because I am 1 or 2  years old than them, I felt that was a disadvantage; however, I was completed wrong.

First, I wrote the date, the agenda and the topic, but they already knew my name, because my tutor asked me to introduce myself in the previous class observation, however, I introduced myself again and greeted the students asking them how was their week. Then, I started the class with a warm up using a game called "Running Race" in which students had to make groups of 5, they developed a very dynamic activity. Later, I presented the topic by using a listening conversation, students had to listen and practice the conversation in pairs and change the roles, I decided to ask them to work in pairs for the students who are shy or don´t like to develop dynamic activities and also because It´s successful for listening learners and students can practice their speaking. 

Then, I continued with the grammar explanation, I tried to explain them many times in order to they could understand that I didn´t realize that I took more time, I have to improve don´t waste a lot of time in the grammar explanation for my next classes. In addition, I gave them simple examples to facilitate students learning. For the control practice, they had to look the city map that was in the board asking and answering questions about where were the places in the city map?. The semi practice was one of my favorites activities, because I invented it by myself, I thought about what I could use for semi practice and I had the idea to make students to participate not just in speaking, so I made a chart in which students had to pass to the front and write one sentence using prepositions of places according to a city map, students passed to write to the chart on the board. ,I really liked this activity because makes me feel great that students took the marker and passed to the front to write a sentences by themselves, that´s meant that they understood very well, and that was my best satisfaction.

 Finally,for the free practice, I asked students to draw a map of their neighborhood describing the locations of the places around their houses. 

In the feedback, teacher told me that he liked the use of visual, because get´s students attention, and the activities were very nice, also told me that the use of charts avoid me to waste time in writing on the board and that was right to monitor my students when they were working, but what I need to improve is the seating arrangement, because it was kind of difficult for me to walk around and monitor them and he also told me that I needed to have more self confidence, because I did it well, he told me, but I guess that it was because I was nervous to teach my first time. I know that I could do it better the following practices and the mistakes that I committed this time, I have to avoid for the next time.

Good luck for all my Classmates!!!