Reflection

This is the last entry on this semester on my Practicum I class and I would like to say that I enjoyed a lot.
At the begning of the course I thought that woring with kids was going to be difficult because I had not worked with kids before and even though I had a son and I spend a lot of time with my cousin and niece, managing a big group was going to be difficult. Working with kids is a difficulty for teaching and I can tell that it is not since working with with kids is the most rewarding activity I have ever made.
That feeling that you got when you see those kids pronouncing words in english cannot be compare with anything.

When we started the first lesson I had some difficulties mostly with my attitude toward stidents, some flashcards that did not meet the size required and the organization of our group was not that good.

In our second performance we lacked organization and this was a bit problem at the time of performing since it affected us a lot because we had to skip the wrap due to lack of materials. 

In our third participation I feel that we did a great job and I overcame most of my problems since I showed a very good attitude toward students and as a group we were really organized; However, I still have to improve my voice projection.

Throughout the course, we have been getting ready for our kids by having some talks with an expert on coping with stage fright and how to speak in public and I believe that it was very helpful since Improvement was shown on the performancecs.

It has been an amazing experience since I learned a lot about kids which is something that is going to be very useful for me not only because I am a teacher but because I am a father of a beautiful 11th moths child. This is a learning experience for all my life and I hope to keep increasing my knowledge in order to be a leader in the classroom.

Lesson 10

This class took place on november 11th, 2015 and this gruop was assigned with a PPP framework since they were required to teach vocabulary and writing skills. Everybody noticed that this team took the time to prepare this class since they had a lot of materials to perform the class and kids apprecciated it!

I could notice that the group was tired and this affected a little bit their performance since I did not see a very good attitude toward students; however, their material offseted everything.

At the end, they enjoyed with the kids and kids were happy and even thougn explanation was not that good, kids understood since they practiced some professions last class.

On the one side, this group needs to improve their voice projection and they need to show a better attitude. On the side, their materials were amazing since they brought some sort of muppets and flashcards were big enough.

Lesson 9

This lesson took place on november 9th, 2015 and it was the time for our group to perform this class. we were assigned with a PDP framework in order to teach the topic "My dream job" for listening and speaking skills. this was the last opprtunity that we as a group were going to have and according that what we showed in prevous classes I think that we improved a lot, mostly in our organization since we had everything ready and even though the classroom was  a total mess because an University event took place a couple of hours before, we were able to overcome that uncomfortable situation.

Kids were ready to start so we started with the wellcome song and after that I was in charge to start with a wrap up activity called "find the place" in which students were playing with a ball a goal and the one who did not score was asked to find one of the places in the town that was taught in the provious class. 

After that, Eunice was in charge to perform the pre listening and the during listening and we decided to use "realia". We wore some customs in order to show the way that professionals dress and we used very attractive materials.Then professions were described by using realia and studenst were asked to complete a worksheet with the name of the professions.

Bryan was in charge of the post listening activity and kids were asked to play the musical chairs with the purpose of practcing the sentence "I wan to be a ____"

The wrap up was in charge of Willam and Eduardo who did a very good job by making students play the crazy hat. Students enjoyed this activity since they were dancing and running around the chairs.

At the end we sang the goodbye song and snacks were given to kids.

I would like to infer that in this class our improvement was shown since we were more organized than before, our flashcards were big enough for kids' eyes and our attitude toward students was good; however, we need to iprove in our voice projection a little bit more.

Lesson 6

This lesson took place on wednesday october, 26th and this group was assigned with a PDP framework in order to perform activities with the purpose of practicing listening and speaking skill. I would like to infer that this group was very organized and their materias were the best for the whole course, Although their materias proved that they took the time for the kids and they were willing to participate, their performance could have been better.

When they started the class, the sang the welcome song and what amazed me was the materials they used to perfomed the song since every single child had a muppet and they were doing mimics.

After that, on the presentation pat I would like to say that the way Yaneth performed was good and even though she lacked voce projection, she sat down in the floor and share her knowledge with the kids and again visual aids were great!
Then, the during stage took place and the idea they had was interesting since they recorded themselves in order to play the audio for our kids; however, I realized that there were some pronunciation mistakes that can make students confused later on. Then they played a game using some dades and that was catchy and interesting four our kids.
Class was about to finish and it was time for the wrap up activity and they did something that I loved which was an interesting game that every single salvadoran child knows, guess which one it is?, it is "mica" of course. I loved this activity since kids were running all around and enjoying as much as they could.

I think this group did a very good job since their performance was great and most of the activities were well planned.

Lesson 2

It was wednesday october 7th and our kids were ready to learn. Students were going to face a challenging topic that was: " There is /There are". The second group was asked to use a PPP framework since they were required to teache vocabulary and writing.

Even though people from this group were nervous, the group showed very good skills at the time of working and dealing with kids. the materials they used was very catchy and flashcards were big enough.

They started with a warm up activity in which kids were asked to play with a Hola Hoop in order to break the ice and I personally think that it was an amazing way to catch the students' attention from the very beginning since they were motivated by playing.

In the presentation stage, the use of there is and there are was taught by making groups in order to make some questions. In the practice stage, students were asked to do that same that they did in the presentation but this time they were working individually. In the production, students were required to ask and answer sentences by using flashcards.

The closed the lesson with a wrap up activity asking students to play the hot potato. After that, they sang the goodbye song and snacks were given to our kids.

I sincerally think that this class was very well designed; however, teachers could have shown more rapport with students and they also could have shown a very good attitude toward studets but again this was their first class and they did a very good job.

First Class

It was the time for our group, group number 1 to start with the course; Although people might say that being the first one is difficult, I can tell that being the first one this time was rewarding because it allowed us to learn a lot of positive things that can be corrected through feedbacks.

As a group we felt that we were ready to teach but nervous can be a weapon against us; However, we were willing to face any difficulties and to overcome them as well.
In the diagnostic class we decided that classes were going to start with one song and that song was going to be used dutring the complete course.

Our welcome song is called "Hello, Hello" and we choose this song because this is a very simple and useful song since kids will like it and their attentions was going to be in the class.

I was the one in charge to start with a warm up activity which was sharks are coming and in this activity students were asked to make groups in order to complete a word that was given in flashcards with some pictures.

After the warm up Eunice continued with the pre listening stage by presenting the present continuous structure with some pictures. After that, Bryan continued with the during listening stage in which the structure was reinforced by acting the verbs. Then, in the post listening stage, we played a game involving acting and guessing with students in order for students to perform the action on the verbs. to end we did a wrap up activity.

After all the stages in our lesson, students sang the goodbye song that we have chosen, that song is called "after a while crocodile" which is a catchy song with easy lyrics and vocabulary. Students loved it.

After singing the goodbye song, students were giving a snack and the were all set to go home.

By the end of the day we got our feedback and we realized that we needed to improve our voce projection and our attitude toward students.

Diagnostic Class!

A new experience was just begining a group of teacher that have been getting ready for this was going to be challenged by teaching a whole course with young learners. it was on september 30th, 2015 and everything was going to start, our kids were ready to be tested in order to see how much they know about english. this diagnostic class was made with the purpose of evaluating the student's development throughout the class in order to base the whole course on that previous knowledge.

Our surprise was that most of the kids performed really good in all the activities since the exercises and activities did not trouble them. Even though for most of us it was the firs experience teaching kids, a good interaction between teachers- students was shown throughout the whole class. kids were willing to participate and they seemed to be excited about this course.

This class was helpful, not only because we had the opportunity to evaluate students but because we got to know them and have an idea of the way that they behave and react. Also, when the class was over we discussed about how kids were in terms of english´s basic knowledge and we took a decition of the way that the course was going to be taught