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.

WEEK 4: Vocabulary (Zoo Animals)

Class of Vocabulary

Teachers: Daniela, Johanna, Alexandra

What I like from the class: this week was incredible, the whole performance of Daniela. She was astonishing

from the beginning to the ending, her attitude, energy, tone of voice, the use of English Spanish, the control of the class with the amusing activities she brought with her completed one of the best performance, I have ever seen from my classmates. Let’s start with her attitude, she was awesome I could not believe she was a student due to the easy way she took students over but was not such an imposing control that get stressed students. it was something with balance. I want to mention something that took my attention was when some students came late to the class and she had already explained the instructions. I think that was in the warm up even though these students came late she did not stuck, I thought she was going to explain again the activity as the first time but she did not and it was perfect because she did not waste time repeating
the activity, instead she gave them a brief explanation and it was magnificent.

 Johanna did a great job as well, she explained well the activities, she use perfectly the materials, she had the good vibe the good energy and she did use English Spanish properly. I love the explanation of matching she gave an example on the board and cardboard was awesome. Alexandra was good giving the class, she had some tough moments where students started to talk and they did not pay attention to her, but despite that she did not allow that they took the control of the class and she got serious with them but not in a bad way that kind of situation when students get frightened by the teacher, I mean in the way that they could respect her, and that was absolutely perfect.

What I did not like from the class: well, I am supposed to write something in this part but honestly I could not see such a big mistakes that one can say that are terrible and that affected the class´s development, it was not like that. Nevertheless,  there are certain things which they can improve such as; the pronunciation of words like ( Tiger), the unexpected problem of masking tape and only those little things which I know they will be more careful next time when they present their second class.

Thing to Improve: In the things which they have to improve I think that they only need to keep on working like they did and trying to do things even better next time. I have always had the thought of taking a self-evaluation about the thing we do. An inner assessment and I know that they did it awesome, but I do know they can do it even better each time they have the chance to give a class. All in all, I can see features of such a great teachers in these girls and something important this has not to be the end, this has not to be the limit of their development. Because when we outdo ourselves we will have to find out where our limits are.


Things which i will probably do in my next class:
Taking the control as Daniela did, the attitude and try to find my own style for teaching, i consider this class an excellent example for us to take into account in the moment to present ours, model as much as possible for students to understand the instruction or explanation of a topic we are required to teach. the activities which were undoubtely engaging for kids, the materials they used in class were really appealing absolutely colorful and catching attention. 

WEEK 3 Reading - Family Members

What I like from the class:

This week we continue learning new things from other teams, we saw the different performance from other classmates teaching reading and listening skills, I will not talk about both teams but I will only say that both did it well and I guess they learn from this experience of being in front explaining the different stages which they have do teach. This time a want to talk about Astrid, Xenia and Daniel teaching the Reading Skill, I think that from the beginning they were excited because it was the first time for them teaching this skill. 

What I like from Astrid is the way she motivate students and besides she made student repeat the words and when there were those who did not, she continue asking them to repeat until the whole group participate and that was awesome also her attitude was in the acceptable level for kids to feel comfortable, I consider the three of them did it great even though Xenia did not have enough time she coped that difficult situation and the most remarkable is that she attained to complete the post, we have to accept that she seemed upset at the moment of teaching , but besides that she was astonishing also I noted that at the beginning of the class there was a girl who came late and she was near the door and Daniel asked her to move to another place but she did not want to, but I observed that Xenia asked her again and she accepted Xenia request then she moved the little girl to another desk where she could see the board this little thing showed me that she has features of a good teacher, the kind of teacher who care about her students.

I did not like form the class:
Nevertheless, there were some things which they can improve firstly we have to be careful in one area which is the word spelling. I noted that the word Nephew was not well written and as a teacher we cannot make this mistakes since we are the person in charge to teach a new language and students will learn from this either it is correct or not. We have to bear in mind that from this age is when they get the most impact when learning a language, as we know the very young age is when children develop the cognitive side of the brain and the development is in a great level of absorption that is why we can take advantage of it, teaching them the proper spelling and pronunciation of the plenty of words in English. the time was the big problem of the class there were some stages that took more time than the expected at some points i could see the hurry from the members of the group due to this problem but at the end they could handle the situation.

Thing to improve:

The time despite this issue, Daniel performance was interesting one, I like what the teacher said that he was concerned about Xenia´s time, he speeded up his activities when noted that the time was running out. He acted as a good friend, he was not only focused on his grade but also on Xenia´s performance and that is what we have to learn, the humanity of working and face the problems together, and I want to highly this because the purpose is not just about getting the best grades, being the best student but being kind a person, helping us each other and grow up together to become not only in excellent teachers but also in good people. we cannot be really tough with this group they handle the difficult of time and could achieve the aim to teach the stages.

In conclusion: 
All in all, there were many good thing which we have to learn from this group and even things which we also have to take into account when is our time to perform our class. i will learn from this group because they experienced something even the teacher would not like to be in, but besides that the attitude and energy of each of them was great the could control themselves and found out a way to solve the problem. I really got that stick on my mind and now it is time to apply it in out chance to give a class.

WEEK 2: Vocabulary (Family Members) Rebeca, Federico, Ariana

What I like from the class:
This week was incredibly useful for me, I want to emphasize only one thing from the class of my classmates Rebecca, Arianna, and Federico. What a control!! I cannot forget the category of teaching from their part. I liked to observe the performance of each of them for sure there would be difficult to have the perfect class but they prove and show me that is possible to do it with a great effort and an excellent energy while teaching we can get anything, all of them were awesome Rebecca with her experience with kids and Arianna with her attitude serious but not to scare children, Federico with his humor even though he was a little jittery, he did it well. It was their first class and despite that they did a good job teaching the Family member to kids, I love the materials and the Family tree, they used for a better comprehension of the new vocabulary. Also, The two girls were awesome I could note that they have practice teaching, I like the first activity, students did not want to participate repeating with Rebecca but she did not stop to insist and to ask them to repeat and it worked. I think Rebecca had the difficult duty of making them feel comfortable after that I could notice they were more relaxed and the striking from the performance of both girls was their attitude Rebecca showed the confidence of being in front of students and Arianna had the total control but not in a strict manner but she gave a little power to students and that was astonishing she include them into the class into their own learning

What I did not like:
I have no much to say in this section because they did not make many mistakes, the only things is the time to start the class, they have to be on time not in time due to teachers need to prepare material, organize the desks in the correct form to take children´s attention since we know the correct arrangement of desk is crucial to develop a good class, the other thing is the tone of voice and energy of Federico but I consider we cannot be rude in this part and despite the little things, we have to remember that it was their first class and it was great.

Things to improve:
 it was surprisingly amazing the class´s development but I think they only need to be careful with the time to begin the class juts that and continue improving and working like they did in this class, despite the well development we have to bear in mind that we have to look different and novelty ways for teaching that is why, they cannot stop improving and not only them but us as well.

In conclusion:
I will take example from their class and will learn from each of them even from their mistakes. I want to tell the person who reads this that this is not about who is the best in the class, I do not mind that and you should not neither, we are here to learn, we are here to change the things if we do not learn from each other, if we do not help us one another, we are not going to make anything worth, the thing is to change the way of learning and teach English, So that we can be able to create new things and not only repeating over and over the same.