Well, to start, I want to say that I am enjoying teaching every time more. I am glad to have this opportunity because besides being a grade or a course, it is a new way to learn by practice and experience.
This Friday, I had my second experience with this group. I started the class by having a fun warm-up which is named Emotional Mirrors. I guess some of you have heard of this. This warm-up is about making your students to talk about anything they want, but they must speak with different emotions. For example, if I tell them to speak angry, they must speak like that and so on. Later, I had some questions about movies which were good for them because they enjoyed them too. At first, I gave them the piece of paper with the questions and asked them to read them for one minute to get familiar with the vocabulary and to think what to answer. Later, we studied the questions all together, and they participating by providing their own answers. The last activity was a dialogue which included new vocabulary. I explained to them the meaning of the words and phrases, and some of them performed the dialogue. They enjoyed the class, and I enjoyed it too.
About the feedback, well, I must say that it was what I expected (even though I do not know my grade yet), and I could see some points in which I failed, but what class is perfect? You must always have to deal with every detail that may not be as you want, but you must adapt yourself to overcome it. Well, this was my second experience with the English Access group. I wait for your comments and suggestions. Thanks.
Wow, as you said my friend....which one is the perfect class???? there´s any...there´s no perfection in world, but the most important part is to give our best in every single class we teach....well, chele I really like the warm up you did...this is the first time I hear about it, but I will steal it if you let me of course....I know that Ss enjoy a lot when the teacher includes this type of activities....When we let the ss to participate a lot in the class, they have fun and learn as well as we do...congratulations my dear!!!
ResponderEliminarHello my sweet friend,
ResponderEliminarIt's nice to know that you are with the guys of the English Access Program; they are very nice and participative, you must know.
First of all, I'm totally in agreement with the way you see teaching in this subject inasmuch as it really is more than just gaining a score, it's about gaining valuable experience.
Second of all, I totally liked the activities you developed in class; they were very interactive and dynamic, and that's what ss need to feel happy and interested in class. So, well done!
I'm glad you like your job and to see that you are improving with every new experience :).
Hello guy, i like the activities you developed because they help students to interact with each other, likewise, you brought some questions related to movies, i think students must have talked a lot in that moment because those are topics they are really interested in and if they know about those movies they will feel free to make any comment!!
ResponderEliminarblessinga Gus..,
Hello Gustavo!!!!
ResponderEliminarI like the warm up activity you did, it was very nice. I am sure your students enjoyed it a lot.
As you said in your comment there will be always some details that will change our plans for the class, but through this experience we are going to get ideas about how to deal with those things.