MY LAST CLASS...!!!HAPPY OR SAD..??WELL..

Today`s class was my last class with this group, and I think that many things worked well today. First of all, the students came on time, so I began my class and I think that is was really nice for me and also for the students. The first activity was the warm-up I gave them a verb in present tense and they had to create a sentence using the present prerfect. The real class was with a little bit of grammar. I really liked the way they worked today. I reached my objective and they understood the class.

Maybe something that did not work well was that one student was saying in the whole class "I don`t understand teacher". but in Spanish. He always did that in every class, I don`t really pay attention to him because he likes to call everybody`s attention.

Today we worked in a semi-circle and everything was in pairs. They just had to change the partner in order to work with other people. I think that the students worked more when they are in couples, because they feel confidence about themselves than when working alone, and they also make a good job when working in pairs. One thing I know now is that I always have to correct students`mistakes and monitor them all the time in order to be not only usefull, but also to check their work and the understandable ideas they have from the class.

I think that students knew and got the most important things of the class, not only because all of them worked with the exercises, but also because if they had any doubt I tried to explain again.

MY SECOND CLASS...!!!! BETTER THAN THE FIRST ONE

Today was my second class with Intermediate English I with Teacher Karen. This class was really interesting and rewarding for me. Everything worked well. I coudn`t believe this, but it is true. For the warm-up activity I brought a crossword about the topic we were studying (prepositions of place) My objective was pretty clear students had to create sentences using the studied structure. All of them arrived to class, late, but they appeared. I felt really happy with this class because they worked in every activity I brought even the teacher participated with them. Something that didn`t like about this class is that they came late as I told you before, but the teacher told me to begin the class and I did. I used one classroom management such as semi-circle. I also used different interaction formats. For example : pair- work, group work and working in trios. They really enjoyed working in trios today. They had to create sentences by looking at the chart I brought and then read them.
I really liked the way in which my students worked today because they spoke more english and the teacher noticed that. When I asked them to say the paragraph they wrote.
I think that today was the day that these students worked the most. I brought more than 3 activites and they were writing,asking,paying attention,answering and also participating in all the activities I presented.

The activity in which the students used more English was when they were describing the given picture by using there is/there are and a preposition of place word. They did it well.
Something that is very important in order to reach the objective of the class is to set activities according to the objective for that day.

LAST PERIOD...AND FIRST CLASS...

This was my first class of the last period, and Iwas not so happy as I wish could be...but anyways I have to work hard to get not only new experiences,but also good grades. Today`s class was kind disappointed for me because when the class began the students were not there. It was hard to begin a normal class. I think that this was not my best time and my best class. Some things that did not work well were more than the good ones, but I know that we learn something new in every class. I brought 4 activities to be developed, but I couldn`t because of the time. I began late and then I didn`t have those minutes because they had to do something else with the teacher.

These particular students don`t speak much English just like 2 or 3 and they were thirteen. It was hard to begin with the warm-up activity because I only had the half of the class and they had to order some sentences it took more time to do this and they didn`t know several words, anyways I tried to explain the words and they read the sentences the were supposed to order. Something that called my attention was that they didn`t have the pasion or the feeling, not only to learn, but also to teach. They were kind of "calm" in the class or maybe because it was a little bit of grammar phase they got bored. In this class they only worked in pairs because of the activities I brought and since the beginning of the class I arranged a semi-circle as a classroom management.

I hope to do a better job and get better results for the next class. I felt really sad at the end of my class not only because of my class, but also because of my grade. I know that I have to accept and improve my teaching techniques and methods.