At this time, I already learned a lot of strategies and different ways to teach I can say with properly that I´m not same girl than before starting this subject because I had the opportunity to give classes in basic and advanced levels and now in English access, since many time ago I wanted to know how was it to work with this group, I listened the good comments of my classmates that had the opportunity to work with them; now that I could observe the learning environment, I noticed how nicely is to work with these children because they are so anxious to learn English and that motivated me to prepare a great class for them. No means that I didn´t right before, but this time I enjoyed preparing my class. As teacher, I felt realize to develop the class and how successful was it, not because I am saying, but because I noticed that children loved to work and they were so interesting to learn during all the class that I taught them. All this experience lead me to try to improve my teaching more every time. I realized how much I liked to give classes, specially now that I dedicated the best of me to do it.
Basically, before starting the class, I pasted some pieces of scotch in their desks and pasted the objective , the agenda and new vocabulary, and I had ready the charts that I was going to use in my class. Then, when they were ready, I introduced myself and I gave them pieces of paper to each one in order that they could write their names, I really wanted to call them by their names during the class. Later on, I develop the warm up, I wanted to use something that allows them to stand up, have fun and work at the same time, so I made 3 groups and because they are children I asked them to chose a name for their group and chose a representative, this last thing it had a purpose that I will mention later, after chose their group´s name and representative, I gave to each group a bag which contained 3 sentences in simple past, they had to order and then, the representative had to write the sentences on the board and then the group which had more correct sentences was going to win. I noticed that they were so anxious, I decided to use this because they are children, I know that I can use other strategies with adults, but in this case, they had fun by learning an practice. Finally, when the groups finished, I checked with them all the sentences, I did it in order to involve them in the review and allow them to notice their mistakes too, in fact, they participated in the activity and in the review by telling me the mistakes, they laughed a lot in this activity.
Later, I continued with a practice, I gave them a worksheet that the teacher asked me to use it, it was a writing activity. Meanwhile the students were working, I was monitoring them, it was easy for me, because I used seating arrangement before they came to class, I put the desks in semi-circle in order they could sit better and I could monitor them better too. Some of them asked me for the new vocabulary, but fortunately, I already wrote the new vocabulary on the board, so they noticed and understood the meanings.
Then, I use another worksheet that the teacher asked me to use it, but I talked with her days before the class, asking her if I could use other strategies with the information of the worksheet in order to use not only writing activities, but some other kind of strategies that helped to students to not get bored in class, fortunately, she told me that I could do other things with the same information. So, my idea was to bring a chart in which I put some verbs in different colors in order to call their attention and analyze which verbs were for each sentence that I wrote, some of them had to pass to the front and write the correct verbs in past for each sentence, in fact, I asked them calling by their names, then, together, we reviewed if they wrote the verbs correctly, then I used another chart that consisted in that I gave them a variety of verb in pieces of papers and then they have to pass to the front and paste in the spaces, it was like fill in the blanks, but in a more interesting way because my purpose was that all of them could pay attention not to the person that stand up and write or paste the verb, but to put attention to the mistakes in order to help them to notice the correct way to write the verbs and I´m sure that they will remember that in the exam and later on because they were focused in the activity and pay more attention.
I consider that this class has been the best class that I had developed and the most successful, maybe it wasn´t perfect but I had improved a lot and I hope I continous improving my teaching during this time, fortunately, I put the best of me and I obtained the most successful class that I had taught because students clarify their doubt and they learned the correct way to write the verbs and the most important it´s that I´m pretty sure that they will remember not only for the exam but also it will be meaningful learning.
I consider that this class has been the best class that I had developed and the most successful, maybe it wasn´t perfect but I had improved a lot and I hope I continous improving my teaching during this time, fortunately, I put the best of me and I obtained the most successful class that I had taught because students clarify their doubt and they learned the correct way to write the verbs and the most important it´s that I´m pretty sure that they will remember not only for the exam but also it will be meaningful learning.
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