First Teaching Practicum (3° period)

Describe What I saw during this slice of lesson is that my students were sitting and talking about a soccer match. And I started talking with them while we were waiting for the teacher.  When I started the class, I gave a piece of paper to them in order to write their names as it was the first class. Because my tutor started with a pray, I did the same. Moreover, I did a bingo as a warm up, they really enjoyed it. For the presentation, I had to explain new vocabulary like “peeled”; so I showed them 2 potatoes, one peeled and the other one half-peeled. That helped me a lot because I also taught “Adjective Clauses with subject Relative pronouns & Object relative Pronouns”. To explain the grammar part, I made a chart reflecting the differences of the clauses. And I created a sentence that said: The potato that is peeled is really big. I knew that my students had understood because they gave me a lot of examples.  This time I arranged the desks in a horse-shoe and I incorporated groups of work. I am really glad with my new students and myself as the teacher told me that my class was enjoyable!
(Analyze)		Plan Action
Interpret	Generalize
I think that students seem the grammar explanation interesting because they are an upper level and they know that if they pay attention, grammar will be easier. To avoid being so boring when explaining the grammar, teachers should use colorful and short charts. I absolutely think this is important because this make the environment more enjoyable and interactively.	Based on what I already know about giving a good presentation, I am sure that using pictures and dialogues is a nice way to make them participate in the whole class. Based on what I observed, I think students generally like to participate when they are praised. I believe that confidence helps if the teacher starts since the very beginning smiling with the students, so they will feel nice being in the classroom.	So, in the future, I will include more colorful charts, pictures, and some different activities to teach this topic. In future lessons I will incorporate kinesthetic activities because this time I did not use them so much. The next time I teach this lesson, I will incorporate groups work as well as I would change the students who talk too much with their classmates.