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.
Hello Daniel, I just read your blog and although I was not present during your class for what you wrote I think that you all did a really good job. You know I havn't had the oportunity to teach grammar and I kind of afraid of it because I consider grammar the most difficult skill in English, but I'm glad that children were able to get the information. I think that the voice management is important when giving a class. And I also think that we must be patient since we are teaching kids and they don't always want to participate in the class but we must always keep calm. I agree with you sometimes for trying to help our classmates we tend to confuse them at the time of the class so is best to leave them alone.
ResponderEliminarI think that despite of the inconvenients which you have you did a good job and you achieve your goal which was for kids to learn the grammar, so congratulations.
thank you for sharing your experience with us.
Hello Daniel!
ResponderEliminarLike my partner alexandra, this time I did not have the opportunity to see them, but according to what I read you did a good job and that's good. I want to tell you that our group had the opportunity to teach gramar and the truth is that this skill is a bit difficult, but from what you say, the children learned the grammar and that it amazing. On the other hand, I agree with Alexandra, I think the main thing we should have as teachers is patience, as there will be times when children, teenangers and even adults who do not want to participate, but we must motivate them to participate. However, leaving that aside, I believe that you achieved your objective, which was that the children comprehended the grammar. Congratulations. :)
Hello Dani!!
ResponderEliminarI just read your blog and I want to tell you that unfortunately I could not observe your class, but as far as I can read, you and your group did a good job in spite of the details or mistakes that you mentioned, but remember that the important thing is to learn from them, that is why, I am very happy to know that you have improved and learned from each experienceis. Congratulations Dani!