The Thirth and Last Class

     My last class was very good because of the activities I developed. It was really nice to teach my last class because I already knew my students and the way they behave during the class, which I love because they love participating. This time teacher Salvador told me to teach about second class from the lesson, and it was just practice about TOO+ADJ+FOR PHRASE+INFINITIVE; he also said I was free to change anything from the activities in order to adequate them as I preferred. I developed my class into a grammar practice, a Tip Ranking Activity, and an Impromptu Speech activity about Global Warming.

     Before starting the class, I had to wait an hour because I was supposed to teach at 3:00 pm, but there was no one to evaluate my teaching, and so I had to wait until 4:00pm. The grammar practice was not so difficult to manage because students just have to open their books and complete the sentences from the activity. First of all, I tried to make a review of the previous class in order to get students familiar with what they were going to do; then, I gave the directions and wrote an example on the board for them to follow the same structure in their books. When they were done, I checked with all of them the answers. There was no problem with the exercises.

        During the second activity, I was nervous because of the space, so students were supposed to be moving around the classroom stopping by different stages; fortunately, it went well although my directions again were clear at all because I could say everything in just some words, but they understood because I asked someone to retell what they were going to do. Before the activity, I had already pasted the tips for helping the environment to decrease global warming around the classroom, so I saved time with that. After that, I counted until three and they had to read and to start discussing about the tips and sharing if they would apply those tips. Then, they had to move to the other stage and continue doing as the first time three more time. I monitored and it was pretty nice because I could notice they were interested on talking about global warming, so they were even sharing some other tips to decrease global warming.

     Finally for the impromptu speech, I got them follow me to the basketball court. I asked them to form a circle; then, I gave directions. They had to pick a piece of paper containing a statement or a sentence about global warming and start taking about it. I decided to number them from one to two, and in the first time number ones had to start talking and then number twos. It was good, but I know I could have more advantage of the activity, and again I was thinking on the bell which was about to ring, so I got the activity finished and say good bye to students. I felt satisfied because they could learn something from me, and I learn and had experience at teaching from them.

  As a conclusion, the opportunity to teach at English Access was wonderful because I learned a lot from the other side of teaching English because it is not the same as in the major because there we are dealing with children and not teenagers or adults. Based on my experience, I can infer that every time you are teaching you have to be well prepared in order to succeed with your class and set the goal or objective, so in the future I plan to dedicate more time for preparing the activities to develop. I will also try to learn on how to give clearer directions, because this time I had some problems with that; I will also try to manage the time very well for not missing teaching time and for not taking more time to finish. To sum up, the first teaching practicum gave me a lot of experience, and I am sure that now I can go any classroom to teach English without problems, so I have known how to manage the groups and also how to develop a lesson successfully.