The last observation.

The last Friday 13th it was the last class that I had to observe. They used an activity for had the control of the class and their students. The activity consisted in to paste a poster with the student's names with a long space in each name because if a student was paying attention and was very participative during the class the teacher would paste an star and the student with more stats would win a gift at the end of the class. That activity help to teachers to develop their class without problems but, like other activities this just can be done for 1 hour because students can may feel too much pressure and while time passes they forget the purpose of the activities and then they do not care because they feel boring or exhaust. In the other had, what I observed about the the development of the classes. Firstly, I had to see the first group with the listening class. Gaby Peña developed the warm up and the presentation. In the warm up she make an activity where students had to say verbs in order to mention activities that they do in their free time. That activity's purpose was to break the ice and review the last topic. Also, she made the presentation, she used 2 posters in the first one contain all the previous activities  that students told her and in the second she had 2 types of answers according to the topic present perfect she had " yes, I have and no, I have not" what she did is to ask students the question "have you ever...." Using the previous verbs. In addition, she created a short story using some verbs and she show images that represent the action verb. That activity helped to students to be involve with the new topic. But, something that I could observe that I could not differentiate the warm up and the presentation because I did not when exactly the warm up finish and when the presentation began and also I do not feel that she present something new. Nonetheless, she developed her class with a good attitude and she spoke correctly to her students. Moreover, Natalia Gregori  perform the two durings. In the first during she gave a worksheet per student, each worksheet contained images of some action verbs; she putted an audio and student had to to put a check if they heard  the verb that the images represent. This activity helped to students to develop they listening skills and also this helped the teacher to know if they remember the verbs presented. What I could observed that she could challenge more the students because it was easier for the students just check if they heard the verb action and the audio was good for challenge them with both parts grammar and vocabulary. Further, she made the second during she gave to students some pictures and sentences and students according what they heard in the audio they had to match the sentence with the images. The purpose of this activity probably was to know how much students remember about the listening. But, students do not putted a lot of attention to all the sentences because the first practice they just paid attention in the verbs that the image represent, and could put one more time the listening just for refresh their minds instead of that everything was good. Finally, Maria Nuñez developed the post and the wrap up. In the post she gave a page and students had to draw their favorite part of the listening. Then, the wrap up was a bingo. Students had to choose 5 different images and the teacher said sentences and the students who had the picture that the sentences represent had to made a cross and when they had the five images with a cross had to said bingo for be the winner. That activity was good for close the class and de-stress  them. But,something that I could said according what I observed is that she was a little bit rude with the students, she had to moderate the tone in which she speak to the children and she did not used praise. Maybe because she said that she does not like kids but she had to forgot it an got in to the teacher's role. Nevertheless, I think they concreted the objective and students caught something about the listening class.

Second, I had to observed he group with the reading class. First, Liliana Corea develop the warm up, presentation and the during 1. In the warm up she putted her students to work on the floor to put together a puzzle but individually and the students who finish first it will be the winner. This activity help students to recover energy and begin the new class with other attitude. Then, she made the presentation. She pasted some super heroes images and she said what was the ability of each superhero then, she gave an action verb to each student and they had to pass to paste the verb according to the ability of each superhero. This activity was really creative because they used something that students really loved. But, students began to lose the attention  and Liliana remembered the activity of the poster with the stars and that made them to pay more attention. Also, Liliana made the during 1. Sat students on the floor  and beginning to read a a very creative story with the superhero and using the grammar and the vocabulary of the lesson when she finished she putted to their students to read one by one. This was my favorite part of the class specialty when she left student to read because children excited for read. This was an amazing opportunity for children to be involve with the story and this helped them to develop their reading skill. Furthermore, Melody developed the during 2, during 3, the post and the wrap up. In the during 2 she wrote 3 different tittle for the story and she asked to students what was the best title for the story, they chose the right one. Then, she gave a worksheet that had different sentences with images and students had to organized from 1 to 6 the sentences according to the events in the  reading. This helped to teacher to know how much they remember and if they caught what the reading was about. In the during 3 she gave a worksheet to students that had sentences about the story and they had to write true or false according what they read. Then, for the post she gave a worksheet to students that contain superhero images and students had to write some characteristics of each images according to the reading.  This activity was really challenge for students but, the explanation it was not very clear maybe she could used the board to make an example about what she exactly wanted instead of this students did it. Finally, she developed the wrap up. She used a very creativity game using a hold fish, she made a circle with students and in the middle  she threw some verbs and when she mentioned one verb students have to fish the verb. Definitely this activity was very creative and students enjoyed to play it. To sum up, they developed a really entertaining class, students learned and objective was met.

Finally, those were the last class I could observe what I can say it that we learned a lot from our students and I hope they have learned from use. First, we learned to know our students and according to they behavior we have to create new activities for get the best of them. Also, we learn from our mistakes. Not to be so rude and not be so flexible we have to have a balance. To finish, we learned to accept the critics of other people because this aid us to  improve  ourselves. To conclude, this was an unbelievable experience that left a mark on each of us and new knowledge that we can use in a near feature.

Thanks to read.