WEEK 5: Listening (Zoo Animals ) David, Abigail

What I like from the class: were the materials, I think they were catching the attention of students, the environment was good. There were not many students what makes easier to give the class, the attitude of Abigail was great, she explained well the activities and she modeled as much as she could, she was good at explaining before doing the activities and she used the materials properly, she used a well tone of voice, the energy was not such an impressive bright but was enough. By my side, I think I did it a little bit well, I guess I used a well tone of voice, my energy was not as the first class, but I still could give the stages in the way students could understand at least we could give the important stages which the teacher told us were the most important. Some students were talking and were distracting the others but despite that I think we both controlled a little the situation.

Zoo Animal class / Listening

What I dislike from the class:  the time which we did not controlled well, the moment when we began the class was pretty late, we were delayed the beginning due to the track, I thought I had all prepared, but the things did go as I planned, and that was the moment when I got stressed and with the anxiety I lost control of my thoughts. I could not think clearly the presentation of the new words was not as good as it was supposed to be given and I take the responsibility of my mistakes, the explanation was not clear for kinds to be understood. I know I could have explained better since that moment I did know I had failed in that stage. I did not explain the new words in order, I present the use of (What is it? and What are they) first instead of presenting the new words at the beginning and the proceed to explain the uses of the two questions. Besides, I participate in the class of my partner Abigail and that was not good.

Things we must improve for the next class are:

-The management of time; we started late the class.
-Control of children; when the want to go to the bathroom allowing only one or maximum two and let the other to go later. when they start talking control them but with respect in a tactful way and never let them control the class.
-The material; we need to organize more our material when presenting the class avoiding to delay the other stages for being looking them.
-Things we write on the board; avoid filling out the whole board keep it as clear as possible.
-Check things work; before giving the class, we must check if the devices we are going to use work.
-Give the instructions before giving the material to students.
-Complexity of materials; we have to take into account the kind of activities we are going to use keeping in mind the proficiency´s level of students.

In conclusion, I take the whole responsibility for my mistakes. We must work harder and I hope you learn from the errors we made. I know they are not difficult to recognize so try to avoid making them when you present your class for sure there is no time to lose or feeling self-pity, there is no time for feeling remorse of what we did. We still have the last shot and we will try to improve the things, I am quite sure we will attain it.