SECOND DAY OF CLASS (Tuesday/Third week)

Second day of class

(before the class) 

Before the class I felt a little bit nervouse, but this time I knew that I needed to improve from the last lesson experience. Therefore, I tried to change this time and take advantage of my nervousness, so I had to present the topic that "Body Parts" and I knew that I needed to control my students, so that they could understand the topic.

During the class

During the class, I felt more confident when teaching and presenting the target vocabulary, and I think my students could notice that because they seemed to enjoy more the class; therefore, being confident not only helped me but also my students. I also think that I improved classroom management because my students looked more interested in the class and the majority of them were paying attention to the class. Thus, I think this time I improved many things and I did better than the last time.

 After the class

I could appreciate the other teachers' work, so I had the opportunity to learn from their experiences and learn different activities that we can use with children. Such activities can be considered really effective because they demonstrate that children enjoy them and even more important they learn. In addition, I saw a big change with different difficulties we had last time that in this class we as a group improved. Therefore, I believe that all the feedback that we received last class was helpful for our teaching practicum, for we make our students learn more. 

Of course after we all finished teaching, we received feedback again from that lesson, which is very important in our process of learning how to teach children. Once again, this feedback was excellent, so we can improve in the next lesson different details that I am sure our students will notice the difference. 

My case of study

Today, my case of study was as always paying attention to class, although there were some moments in which he got distracted, but I think it is normal at his age. Nonetheless, I could notice that in his cognitive skills or development, he is able to create strategies to complete tasks like answering the worksheets, or when working in groups or pairs. I also noticed that he is very active, so I could say that in his physical development he is well-stimulated, for in his gross motor skills he shows to use them a lot, but in his fine motor skills, he shows to have some difficulties like in his handwriting that he cannot write different letters correctly or in a good way. In his psychosocial development, he shows that he is still in the negativism stage in which he is a little bit close with others, for example, I asked him if I could take a picture of him but he did not want to, so I think because of his age he is still in that stage.