Journal 4

My first class was with 603. I started reviewing the homework of the family tree. But before, the cooperator teacher who is the same course director had to take a few minutes of the class to scold the students for the constant complaints of the teachers because of they are so talkative in all the class. The two hours were used in the presentations due to indiscipline, I made some interruptions to control the class behavior. Also, I had problems with the resources room because the woman in charge did not separate the implements on time for the class. The next day class with 603 was not possible due to the celebration of a Eucharist in commemoration of memories of the armed conflict in Colombia the class.

In 701 the cooperator teacher suggested working in the Tuesday test (retos). I used for that some balloons with questions inside of it and play the game hot potato. Most of the students felt motivated to participate. In the choosing of the correct answer was some mistakes of comprehension of the questions but in general, it was a productive class. 

Finally, the two hours with 701 was not as I expected, the students were talkative. The time I planned for the activities was too long so I had extra time which students took advantage to talk more. So I had to improvise to complete the 10 minutes with the hanged game with the previous vocabulary. As an aspect to improve to have another plan if things do not come out as expected.

Journal 3

The first hour with 603 was missed because it was Tuesday of test. In the next hour, I start checking the homework "word search" about family members. While I reviewed, the students had to develop in their notebook an informative chart about four members of their family taking into account vocabulary of physical appearance. The next day I began the class carried out the hangman game to review the spelling of certain words related to family members. This activity reinforces the alphabet and vocabulary. Then I present my family tree and make a short description keeping in mind the name of my family and age, in order students follow this model to make their own family tree.

With 701 an exam was carried out on the past simple in its three forms affirmative, negative and interrogative. In the end, I did the feedback of the answers. For the next class, I delivered the results and explain what students will do to make-up the exam. Then, in order to reinforce this topic students listened to two audios. The first audio about five short biographies of famous people which students identified the regular, irregular verbs and match the information with the corresponding picture. For the second exercise, they had to complete information according to the audio and answer some questions. In this part, there was a bit of indiscipline because a girl answered me it is already made in the book. This is because the books given by the Ministry are shared and at the end of the year are returned and some students write about it. To which I had to answer that the exercise was already solved in the book but I cared that she did it and learned.

What makes a good teacher?

A good teacher impacts the lives of his students. He/ She is the result of a combination of qualities. He not only dedicates himself to impart knowledge but also inspires, motivates, listens, creates. He is patient in the training of integral students.

Journal 2

During this week, in the first hour of Tuesday with 603 I applied an evaluation. It covered topics as daily routine, present simple and physical appearance. Where the results were not as I expected. Only eight passed the exam of thirty-seven students. In the second hour, I introduced the topic of family members for which I use a video. The class was going very well until one student lost her pen. I started to persuade them so that freely who had found a pen that was not her or had taken by mistake to deliver but not worked. So, I decided that the girl who lost the pen will pass through the desks to review. But this unleashed the chaos because two students ended up using rude words, so the cooperator teacher had to intervene calling attention and making a notation in the observer to these students.

For the next day, students will bring the homework on page 11 of the workbook that was related to family members. We socialize the answers. Then I delivered a photocopy with different exercises where students will put in practice the vocabulary learned.

With 701 we carried out a reading that included the use of the simple past. This reading was about the experience of a girl named Melissa who visited Barranquilla. Then, the students answered some questions related to the text. Students were divided into groups so that in the next class they exposed about a city taking into account aspects such as food, festivals, weather, clothing and the most representative places of this city. This activity left me surprised and proud of the skills of my students. Many of them had mistakes in pronunciation. However I saw their motivation, they investigated and did the best.