My second chance as a a teacher

The last Friday 6th it was the last chance for my group to perform a class but, this time was a little bit different because we were working with other group of children. They  are around ten to thirteen years old it was more challenged for us but, we asked  to our classmates how was their behavior; they told us that they were very energetic, they liked to make jokes and put fanny nicknames to their classmates and to the teacher too. We were really nervous but,we tried to think in one method or activity that can help us to control them. I found an activity called the behavior box. For develop this activity we used three different boxes with different color for identify them and different gift could be candies, chocolates or cookies. In this case we used candies but, what it is about?  We divide  the class in two teams, each team  had a box and in the box we put some candies, if a team had bad behavior or was not paying attention the candies would be taken to the other group or if both group were not paying attention or doing a lot of noise the candies would be taken to the third box. The purpose of this activity is to make them work together and obviously to make them pay attention and to have a good work environment. But, this activity can be only carried out for about 1 hour.

Back to the  Friday 6th, I gave the instructions and I explained the behavior box activity. Then, Esmeralda was the first in passed developing the warm up that consisted in: she wrote fifteen different words and she gave one minute to students for memorize as many words as possible then, she gave a piece of paper were students have to write the words that they remembered. What was the purpose of that? To break the ice with student and to know how much information can they retain. This work properly they wrote at least 10 words. Moreover, Esmeralda continued developing the presentation. She present the vocabulary that were 10 simple present verbs, those are: play, visit, ride, see, write, run, do, eat, dance and drink. She presented those verbs with a complement. For instance, eat tamales, dance salsa, ride a bike and so on. But what she did in order to teach them the vocabulary? She putted all the images one by one in the board and began to repeat the name of each verb with the complement then students began to follow her. Then, she eliminate one flashcard and continue repeating the verbs with the complements but, when she got to the empty space she asked them what the missing flashcard was and they answer correctly. She repeated this 5 times again. The purpose of this activity was to make students memorize the verbs and what each verb consist in.

Later it was my turn,  I developed the 3 practice. Firstly, I make the game called  finding words. I divided the class on to group and per group gave them an envelope that had different letters of the alphabet and they had to find the letters to create the verbs that they learned in the presentation. The purpose of this activity was to know how much they remembered and if they remembered how to write each verb. Furthermore, i develop the second practice that was called what do you see. I divided the class in two groups and per group I gave them a little board and a marker, I showed a picture and they had to write what the picture represent. For instance, I showed the picture  with a guy riding a bike they had to write in the mini board the verb ride and the complement a bike  because that was the picture represented. The purpose of this activity was to make them to internalize with the new vocabulary and know if they could recognize the function for each verb. Finally, I directed the last practice that was called guess what. I divide the in two groups the class again and each student per group have to throw a dice and the student in each group with the lowest number had to pass in front and I put a diadem that had a verb pasted and his classmates had to make mimics about the verb and he had to guess which verb he had pasted. The purpose of this game was to know the pronunciation and if they could recognize the verbs.

To close our class Ronny developed the production and the wrap up. First, in the production Ronny gave to student a worksheet  with different activities like play video games, drink soda, ride a bike etc. where students had to make a cross in their favorite activity then, he made pairs and the students have to pass in front to share which activities they choose. The purpose of this activity was to know they pronunciation and if was necessary to correct them, to made them to use the vocabulary and know the fluency. Also, Ronny make an activity for the wrap up that is called bing. He gave a worksheet per student that has different verbs and he said a verb and students had to make a cross in the verb that he heard and the student in fill one line had to say bingo for be the winner. The purpose  of this activity to identify misunderstood, review the vocabulary and close the class.

To conclude, this was our class at the beginning we were nervous, anxious and afraid but, we could control our feelings and everything went as we planned. At the end the teacher gave us some recommendations like we have to be more confident and speak louder. However, everything was okay and our objective was concreted.

Moreover, other group had to pass developing the grammar class with the topic present perfect. First, Nancy developed the warm up she made mimics using the verbs and the student had to guess what verb the mimics represented. This activity was good for break the ice and for review the previous class. Moreover, Isabel made the presentation part where students have the fists contact with the new topic. During the presentation Isabel using a poster that contained  7 seven sentences in negative form and 7 in positive form presented the topic. In this part they could not teach the structure of the sentence and one sentence did not has sense. Beside, the aim of this activity was good but, she could not developed correctly and the poster did not help her a lot. Further, Isela develop the first practice where she gave a mini board to students were they had to write a sentence using the pronouns that she gave them, they leave the poster in the stage that  had the sentences. This make that students did not produce or write their own examples they just copied what was on the poster. The idea of the practice was excellent because has the purpose to challenge the student create their owns sentences but, they did not know how to do it. Also, she developed the second practice, where she made two groups  and she gave to each group a pieces of paper that had the parts of a present perfect sentences and the students had to organize the sentences following the structure of the poster. Students can developed perfectly this activity, they really known how to do it because the were following the ideas of the poster. The aim of this activity work properly instead of the previous  teachers mistakes. Further, she developed the las practice where she gave to student a verb and students have to write a presents perfect sentences using the verb. The students did this activity instead of they were tired and boring. Finally, Natalya developed the production and the wrap up. In the production she gave to students a different picture and the students had to create a sentence using the picture then they had to pass in front to shared his sentence. At the beginning students did not understand what did they had to do but Natalya explained again and made an example clarifying all the doubt. Also, she did the wrap up. Using a ula ula she make groups of 4 and students had to hold their hands and while the teacher is counted they had to pass the ula ula but when the teacher stopped the last person with the ula uka had to said a sentences using the pronoun and the verb that teacher said. The aim of the activity was to identify any misunderstood. And this activity made students wake up. To conclude, despite all the problems the objective was concreted maybe they do not learn in the part that has to be but, they learned.

"We make mistakes but we must learn from them for not to commit them again"

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