Hi everyone this week was amusing, we learn new things from the teams and this week was the time for Daniel, Xenia, and Astrid team, they were teaching Grammar and the topic was Food despite there were not too many children the class was given as usual.
What I like from the class: First, Daniel´s performance he was confident, he did not have problems to start the class, he had a well control of the time, gave clear instructions. In spite that the presentation was pretty difficult for children and something striking was that I thought It had not been so clear but there was no problem in the other stages so it means children understood the explanation and the uses of is it and are
What I did not like: well there were certain things which I noted when the group developed the grammar class first the problem with the tape, Astrid was looking at the teacher quite a few time when she was giving her part. She seemed as if she was expecting the approval of the teacher with her eyes or maybe with gestures, she seemed at first like a little anxious or concerned about something, she had one of the hardest part and I am not talking about teaching a tough topic but facing an unwilling kid to pass in front to do the activity, at the end she took the decision of replacing the kid and did it by herself with the other girl. This is the first time I saw this awkward situation, but I think she handled it well.
Things to improve: in this section, I would say that there a few things which they have to improve. They are not the big deal but I know they will improve them. First the explanation of grammar was little confusing, it could have been done more simple, the other thing is related to grammar using the question ( is it) Astrid ask in her part of the class this little mistake she said to the children (it is cheese )
in form of question and the correct had to be (Is it chees?) furthermore, she had problems with the masking tape, I think that we can use other type of tape, one more resistant to avoid this kind of inconvenience.
In conclusion: the group was good at giving the grammar class, I consider they showed us a well way to teach this skill, in my opinion I think that this skill is the toughest to teach but they did it well of course we have to learn from this class and the team have to keep on working and trying to get a better level than today, up to now I believe that we all in the class have learned from each other and that is completely magnificent this is the purpose of the class and it is being attained.
Hello David !
ReplyDeletethank you for your opinion and your recommendations, teaching grammar is not easy but I agree with you that we had problems with the instructions, I think some were not clear and others had a very advanced language considering that they were for children I think we should be more careful in that aspect. and well, a thing I want to clarify is that I was not looking for the teacher for approval or to know if I was doing well, what happened and ¨clarified this is not an excuse¨ is that since I started to develop my part the child you mentioned It was a problem, I do not know since when he started with a bad attitude and with his tantrum, I was very nervous with his attitude because I had never had the experience of dealing with someone like that, so I turned to jocelyn to know if someone was realizing that the child had a tantrum but apparently no one noticed until I called his attention, serious mistake because I should have ignored him.
thank you for your opinion i really apreciate it , we will take your recommendations into account! :)
Hello David
ReplyDeleteI wanted to read about your blog, and let me tell you that In the whole aspects you mentioned, I share them: You said that "grammar is the toughest to teach" I could say that it is true because you know the process we need to face at teaching that skill, and I consider that those capacities we are enriching them through hard working. Also in the part when the kid was like disobeying the instructions. I could add that we can just leave the child, but that is something that could happen to anyone, so We cannot say that in real life we will be avoided for that, so I think that everybody learned about that, even though this group did a quite interesting job beacuse their attitude, and the participation of Xenia, Daniel, and Astrid were good enough. Talking about the masking tape, Perhaps it is a matter of brank let say (I´m not talking about stop buying that xD), or even the wheather, we cannot be really sure about it. To conclude there is a though which says that we should learn about other´s mistakes, but even for the ones we commited. Good job!
I agree with David when he says it was the first time a child refused to participate. Therefore, Astrid must have felt nervous. On the other hand, what I can contribute to the comments is that when a child has a bad attitude it must be because he has a problem at home, so the role of the teacher is to change a negative attitude trying to show the positive of everything that it is taught for example: if a child says I do not like mathematics, the teacher should ask him what he wants to be when he grows up and tell him that mathematics will help him in his work, or business. What I want to say is that as teachers we must transform the way of teaching by interesting and useful things for our students. I hope my advice is useful.
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