My Second Teaching Practice!!

In my second practice , everything was much better, I could close to my students a little more and I felt more confident developing my class.

The first activity was a warm up in which students had to make groups of 5 and choose one color envelope per group, then they had to open it and read the piece of paper that contained 5 prepositions of place; students had to create a sentences and read aloud one by one in their group, then after some minutes, I asked some of the students to give me an example and they did it perfectly. These type of activities are difficult because you had to spend much of your time to prepare it.

Then, I used a reading to present the topic, and this activity as the previous one, I invented to use it and that´s one of my favorite experiences in my preparation as a future teacher, I felt comfortable to be able to decide to change somethings, for example: many activities in the lesson were about places that students didn´t know, so I changed it and I created a reading about where is the Santa Ana Cathedral? and places from El Salvador in order to transport students to get more familiar and to be able to use it in their real situations. Then, I asked them to work in pairs and practice the conversation.

Later, I developed my class with a listening activity, they listened twice and then students worked in a worksheet activity. I continued with my favorite activity, "sentences strips", because I could notice that they enjoyed it a lot and worked hard in learning and doing the best. Everyone participated in this activity and they helped each other. Finally in the last activity I asked students to describe some famous locations in their hometown. Many of them described Ahuchapan because they are from there. I felt very proud that I could achieve my goals, I mean what I expected them to be able to do it. It was satisfactory and I had never felt that before, its something that  you can feel when you are a teacher.

The teacher told me that he was surprised to see my activities and how I could adapt to our country, this was what he and me most liked about my teaching class.

What I have to improve it´s the seating arrangement, I couldn´t change it in my second class because the students of one class before were receiving the class in our room and it was to late, and they didn´t go outside the classroom. So I have to start to late, but fortunately, it didn´t affect me to much. I expect improving every more time and continue to make more effort and less mistakes.

Good lucky for all my classmates!!