Teaching Practicum Period 3- Group 1

Class 1

Date: September 7th, 2012

Group Members: Carlos, Magaly, Iris, Mauricio

Topic:  School

Part  1

Grammar:  Question:  What’s this? (What’s) Answer:  This is (It’s)

Vocabulary to present - School items: bag, pencil, book, ruler, pen.

 Part 2

Grammar:  Question: What’s that? Answer:  It’s a/an

Vocabulary to present:  desk, chair, computer, eraser, window.

We know that being the first group is not always easy, because you have less time than the other groups, and you have to like “brake the ice” in terms of teaching, but despite all that, you as a group did a very nice job.  The classroom was very well decorated,  and activities like the hot potato were really appealing for children .  Also, during the first part of the lesson, the first thing we liked was that students did and activity about drawing school items on the board. We liked that activity because it was the first time that students did it in class, and at the beginning we thought that it wasn´t going to work, but actually Ss did a very good job. Also, we liked the activity with the roulette , children really liked it , and we could confirm that Ss like everything that implies movements or activeness. Moreover, you had Ss running a little bit and working in groups , and we really loved the way you group them by counting from 1 to 2. At the beginning they seemed not to understand, but at the end they got it and everything was fine.  Finally,  for the first part of the lesson everything went very well, except for some little details like, some pronunciation problems with the word “pencil” and instructions were not that clear. We think that with clearer and shorter instructions your activities could have worked even better.

Talking about the second part of the lesson, we really liked how Magaly improvised an activity that you, as a group, hadn´t prepared. What we learned from that, is that if an activity doesn´t seem to work we, as teachers, can change the activity at the moment, and it´s not bad at all, but it does require to have a second plan with you all the time. Moreover, we were really happy to see the improvements in the way  you teach. Now you have more experience, and the most important thing is that you used all the things we have learned in class and all of you have improved a lot , and are becoming more experienced teachers.

VERY NICE JOB GUYS! CONGRATULATIONS!