Astrid, Daniel and Xenia's class

Hello everyone, today it’s my turn to talk about the class that I myself and my two partners and Friends delivered. To begin a little, I have to admit that it was a scaring experience, I know that some of your groups have not received the best feedback ever, but now I understand you. Being in front of a real class is not easy at all, I already know that you did your best effort but we have to give some advices for us to get better, and now I know that it is not that easy at all to have the perfect class.

Our class (delivered with Astrid and Xenia) was about the family members directed to the skill reading. To be totally honest, our activities and exercises were pretty good in my opinion, and they were also well planned. The only thing that I can tell about them is perhaps the fact that they were too advanced for the level of the kids, they didn’t seem difficult, but, for kids that are starting and that don´t understand some topics, it seemed too difficult. Nevertheless we tried to do our best to explain them in the best way.

Astrid

She did such an amazing job. She was just so creative. She always found a way to correct some situations that were against what we planned and she did it in such a creative way. She cared a lot about the kids’ learning. She tried to make them pay attention, and accomplished it with her charisma and even though the lights went out and the kids’ were not able to see what was on the board, she got the great idea to write the words down again for them to copy. She managed it in a good way in general, the only inconvenient was the time that take to solve this situations, time that after that was going to be necessary. But it was an external situation.

Daniel

Being objective, I think that I did a mediocre job trying to express the instructions, and in a big way it was my own fault that some kids didn’t understand what they had to do. Our teacher, Karla, already told us to use some words in Spanish to make them understand, practice that I totally agree on but I totally forgot about. I really hope to do a better job the next time. Other thing was that I over repeated the vocabulary when Astrid already did it in a very good way, and I didn’t achieve to make the kids have all their attention on me. Of course, even though I didn’t catch their attention, I was very enthusiastic. But, being honest. My voice projection, monitoring and modeling were pretty good, also, it didn’t help that the lights went out again while I was delivering my class. I tried my best to hurry up since Xenia had little time to perform, even though it was not enough.

Xenia

She was the most affected by the time factor, BUT, despite this situation she did such a great job. She was direct in the instructions and made all the kids work, she used the right amount of Spanish words to make them understand and decided very well whish activities to do and which ones not to. It was the best example on how you can do more (the best possible) with less (time). Her voice projection was just so accurate to what was required and the things she asked them to do were more realistic that the things Astrid and I asked.

With no more to add, this was my opinion on what we experienced this last class. I hope you enjoyed it and have a wonderful week. Love, Daniel.