Our third class

Hello, now I'm here to talk about our third experience teaching classes as a group. The topic we taught was food and the skill was grammar.

In general and being honest, we could have done this way better than it came out. But let's talk about our performances.

Daniel:
It was my first time giving the first part of the class, it was kind of dufficult for me for many reasons. The first one was that the warm up implied me to take balls off the ground and I'm kind of silly but at the end, it was good in my opinion, very funny activity. My biggest issue came with the presentation part in which I did well (at the end the kids demonstrated to catch everything) but perhaps at first they could not understand me, because I didn know how to simplyfy the information for them. But more than that, it was cool.

Xenia:
She developed the practices and in my opinion it also was cool but there were some little details, for example the time management since she took little time and the other one may be the voice projection which was lower than other times. But she helped a lot to discover that the kids did actually understand the topic, and she acomplished her duty.

Astrid:
She also did quite a great job but her mistakes were unfortunately more noticeable, she got quite desperate to see that a kid was not giving his cooperation to do an activity and in this moment I could understand her, because it is frustrating, but since they are kids, we must be carefull on the things we say and the gestures that we do. But she also knew what to do when she ended the activities and the time was still available, and I guess that's a good thing, we with Xenia thought it was a good idea to leave her alone in this moment because sometimes when we interfere, we may get nervous and confuse each other.

Things to improve:
-Tone of voice
-Face gestures
-Ways to leave the kids alone if they don't want to do something
-Time management
-Ways to simplyfy topics

In general that was my objective opinion on our class. Hope you guys have a nice week. See you later.

Paola, Lidia and Sarai's class

Today, I'm gonna be brief since we in general have improved a lot and each time there's less and less to enhance. I guess that's a good thing.

The class was about the reading skill of the professions and they did a very good job in general.

Saraí
She started with the first part of the class with very good activities and the thing I want to remark the most is that she taught a lot of vocabulary. At the beggining I was afraid that the kids would not memorize all of that, but at the end the kids learnt all of those and it was great.

Paola
The only thing I guess she has to take into account is that for kids it is kind of boring and exhausting to sit down time after time in the floor and in the desks again. But im general the activities were just fine. She also did a great monitoring.

Lidia
Her tone of voice was great and the activities were also well developed, but she made the kids draw, that is something that, again, we should avoid at any cost. But at the end she did a great job with the kids and the timing was just good.

Things that I liked:
•Their voice projection
•The monitoring
•The activities
•The vocabulary

Things to improve:
•Avoid the drawing activity
•Standing up, sitting in the floor and in the desks over and over

I guess that's it. Great job girls. And peace to you all guys.

Our second class. Professions vocabulary!

Hello everyone and it's time for the review of the week. Today I'm going to talk our second class that Astrid, Xenia and I developed last Monday. It was the time for the professions vocabulary to show up and it was a great opportunity to show our best sides. In general oppinion our class was just perfect, we developed and plan this class in a very organized and satisfactory way and let me explain you why.

Xenia
The first teacher that showed her potential was Xenia and she did a great job, we noticed a way better performance than last time, since she had practically no time to develop her part. But, this tume was different, she gained the kids' attention and hard work even more than the last time. Here it comes one of the most controvertial situation of our clas which was the size of the images. Let me tell you that they were indeed small, but it was not the end of the world at all. Teacher Xenia did an awesome job by showing the picture personally to every kid so that they would be able to see them. That's definetely a resolution that only great teachers can think of. The way she explained the new vocabulary was also great. I wish there were more teachers like her in that aspect because even though it was too repetitive, that helped a lot for the kids to keep that information on their minds.

Daniel
Then, it was my turn to perform my part. In my case I had to use the images again, but there was no problem even for me, because the kids needed to walk towards the board to develop my first activity. No wish to show off, I demonstrated that we can save some money by not printing this kind of works and doing them on the board with recycled images or flashcards, which I did, and again it didn't represent any problem. Then I had a hard time by checking the letter soup activity (which I wronged called crossword, I'm sorry avout that, but I am a human, things happen, let's move on) but I thought I could finish the checking so I tried to do it as fast as I could. And then, the memory game was good, I just didn't know how to keep the items uncovered, but nothing serious. I personally have to say, that I really enjoyed my class, it is not a secret that kids are not my favorite kind of people, but in this opportunity I forgot everything about that. I kind of loved them this time.

Astrid
Then, Astrid demonstrated again that she is a great teacher by making the kids work and speak about their favorite professions, thing that I considered impossible at the beggining, but she made all of them pass in front of the class and show what they learnt. She lasted 2 minutes more than planned with the wrap up, but it was just a moment, the parents were not there at the time (except for one) and kids were having fun so hard that they forgot about the time.

Things that I would change.
Now, I see that we would have changed three things and everything would have been perfect. The amount of words in the objective. The size of the images and two minutes less.

I think that we'll have another opportunity to do this in a better way. See you next time my friends, love.