Education Autobography

Probably my story didn't start like many of you who decided study this degree because you liked English or because you wanted to travel around the world and you want to learn the language to communicate with other people.

Well, I will tell you how I decided to study this degree but first I am going to explain my experience with the English subject. I studied in a public school until ninth grade where the teacher could know a lot about English but his teaching methodology was not the best; he dedicated to writing sentences in Spanish on the board and students will translate to English that it all. Also, the grade note in English depended more on the behavior and how to relate in a respectful way with the teacher, instead of what you know about English. It is the reason because in ninth I still did not know the verb to be. Then, for ten and eleven grades, I changed from another school. So I entered to media technical in English, but I did not present the admission exam. When the first class began I remembered that the teacher spoke most of the time in English, and in my previous school, my teacher did it in Spanish. Which affected my performance in comparison to the other students, I did not understand almost anything. 

Even if I try and review I never really got good grades, I confess that I hated English. With the passing of the time, I remember that my teacher called my parents for a school meeting, and she told them that the best thing they could do was retire me of the technical because I could fail the school year. I looked at my parent I said I hadn't been striving for a year and a half so that I finally had to give up everything. So my parents supported me and paid me a private English teacher. Ironically, I improved considerably, and in the icfes tests, it was the most hight scored. So as a personal challenge I decided to study English. But in the process of learning through the degree, I discover that teaching it is something that I love, obviously, there are moments inside the classroom like class management that become desperate but I would not change for anything to be able to give a little of my knowledge to my students is really satisfying.

Teaching vs riding a bike.

Teaching can be compared to learning to ride a bike. First you ride the bike with the wheels, and it is like the process of acquiring theories, then you take the wheels off and it is when you start making small observations in the schools and gain confidence with the context, finally you are ready to pedal alone and it is when you start doing the practice and enjoy the teaching trip.

Journal 7

It was hard to get back to the routine after vacation especially when the students arrive more talkative than normal. However, with 603 it was very good to have started asking how they did, what they did on vacation because it's something than like and excited them to talk about. After this, we socialized a task to close the topic of body parts to which the students were very participative. Then in the second hour after recess, I used a video to explain the parts of the house in relation to the furniture within this. In general, it was not complicated for them to understand because some students knew the vocabulary. Also, the images in the video helped in the process of associating new words.

The same day I had an hour with 701, I implemented questions about the holidays. So students would do in pairs and speak about it. But it didn't really work out in the way I expected. While they talk with their classmates, no one was quiet, but when they had to go in front of the class they didn't feel so confident to say it in English. 

The next two hours I continue with module 3 that make emphasis on the care of the environment. So I use a video about water pollution in order to students identify the causes and consequences of this environmental problem. And finally, students listen and sing a song about the importance of water. This song would charm them in addition to raising awareness of saving water.

Journal 6

This week I feel it was heavy, planning, qualifying recovery workshops, and taking out notes. One thing that really helped me was to leave some workshop to reinforce the last topic while I called them individually to know the final note. In both grades, the classes were based on finishing activities that were not achieved to perform the previous class.