WEEK 1: Vocabulary (The Alphabet, Greetings, and Classroom Language) David and Jocelyn

My Self-Assessment!

What i like from the class: 
I consider that my attitude was good for kids due to that they were engage in the activities even though we did not use real material only slides, i think is a point in our favour, the other thing is the energy our energy was really authentic, i think we were just being ourselves presenting the class and that was excellent because, we did not have to act being another person. the slides i consider were well design, I took my time to prepare them and they work well during the class. our tone of voice was good because children could understand some words even though they are beginners they were really interested in the class. In spite, it was our first class we did it well. Now it is time to be focused in the upcoming classes and try to learn as much as we can from our mistakes and from the other groups.

Things I did not dislike:

I interfered in the presentation of Abigail and we were teaching at the same time, it was kind of confusing for children to follow or pay attention only in one teacher because we both were talking at some points in the same moment, i think that some activities would have been done in a more interactive way where students could be stand up and in movement instead of being sat in the whole class. it was not something good because as we all know children get boring easily and faster than teenagers or adults. I think that we have to be really careful with this in the upcoming classes. The last thing a can remember was the materials we did not use physical materials only the ones we use to make them work in the practices.

Things to improve:

Well at the beginning we start the class with the delaying of the lack of students. I got clear in my mind that I need to improve more and that is going to happen only practicing more time. I need to make more mistakes, but we have to clarify what a mistake is. The most of us think that making mistakes is the worst ever and it is not. The mistakes give us lessons, the experience of something new, something that we have to remember not to do the next time when trying again. The beginning of the class was not too bad, we did not ask them to stand up and I know that the warm up had to be more exciting, warm ups are ice breaker and to make a background. I will learn from this mistake. The interaction with the class has to be more dynamic, my enthusiasm perhaps was good bad if you got one teacher excited, and the lesson is not enough amusing; it does not matter the energy of teacher unless the teacher improvise something different, but that is not the objective. Improvising all the time is not the solution though if students learn, we are doing the greatest part of our job!

In conclusion:

I know that I could completely finish the production; I learnt that I got to have a second plan all the time, and this is for all of us. We cannot predict the issues that can turn up in the moment of teaching, but being prepare for something unexpected is going to be another part of our job. Having a plan B can solve our problems. We made many mistakes but will learn from them. I took my notes and now, I know which are the things; I do not have to do next time what i will do for next class is not to interfere in my partner performance, prepare physical materials and being as happy and energetic as i was in the first .

How to Motivate Children

One of the most important things when teaching is how to create motivation in children but the thing is deeper because we see the surface of things and the motivation is inner of each student and the job of teacher is to create the best environment to bring up the motivation even there is a formula that show us the integration of it.

  Activity + Satisfaction
      = Motivation

Thing we have to avoid:                                Things we have to do:
 1-Never compare                                              1-Listen them                                6-Encourage them
 2- Do not judge                                                 2- Give love                                   7-Take interest
 3-Disconection                                                  3- Appreciate                                8-excite them
                                                                                          4- Find you own style to teach
                                                                                          5- Dismissed any doubt

My self-Assessment

What I love from the topic of How to motivate children, was that it is really linked with the performance of students in the classrooms and the role of the teacher is a fundamental part to dock or to bring up the motivation of each student in the class.

What I did not like is that we as a future teacher do not see this topic a relevant one. Because we think this is no necessary or because nowadays teachers have lost the relationship with students and they are only focus on accomplish the task that bring the book and to complete either a course or a semester, we got to be concerned about this topic because in that way we are going to be able to develop the maximum level of students.

What I will do in my future classes is find the way how to get the complete attention of the whole class because I noted some of them were not interested in the topic, I will find out how to make them get into the real role of students and future teachers to change the things to make them aware of the crucial role that a teacher can be for students’ lives.