Week 8- Grammar.

Food's Grammar.

Teachers: Daniel Reyes, Astrid Cruz, Xenia Guillén (me).

We are almost finish course, now everything has change, most of the kinds left this project. Maybe it is a little difficult to give the class but anyways we have to. This time we were in charge to developed the grammar class. In our class there were just 3 students maybe was because of the weather that this week's was not the perfect factor. However we developed our class. We were teaching "Are they?" "Is it?" and the answer "They are" "It is". This class was difficult to teach more than what I thought. Every practice we learn something new. For example in this class we learn all of things. 

Things I like about the class: 

• The Wrap up activity the kids enjoyed the activity.
• Students could remember all the vocabulary.
• Child were able to make the practice activity.
• This time the zise of the pictures was big.
• Practice Activities.
• Decoration.
• Good attitude.
• Self confidence.
• When I put the desk close to each other was more easy to monitoring and also the students were more focused in the class.

Things I do not like about the class:

• The grammar explication wasn't clear.
• Grammar mistakes.
• Pronunciation mistakes (me).
• Spelling mistakes (me)
• Kids don't want to help in the production activity.
• Astrid attitude when the students were doing the production activity.
• The class ended a 5 minute after the 2:30 PM.
• The kids get borred and they wanted to go to the bathroom in the production activity.
• We do not clear the board.

Things to improve: 

• The grammar explanation, more clear. 
• Try to be carefully with spelling and grammar mistakes.
• If the students do not want to participate live alone the kid, we  can not force them.
• If the activities we planing wasn't enough try to improvise and do more activities.
• Motivate the students to participate.
• Control feelings at the moment students deny to do something.
• Control of time.
• At the beginning of the class ask if they want to go to the bathroom.
• If we made a pronunciation or grammar mistake try to fixed as fast as we can.
• Be more organized in general.
• Not ignore the students when they are doing an activity.
• Monitoring every moment of the class.
• Clear the board when we finish our activities.

Thanks for reading, until we meet again in another blog. :) 

Week 7- Reading

Professions' reading.

Teachers: Paola Alvarenga, Lidia Artiga and Saraí Ramirez.

Hello, I am here again to talk about the second class of Paola, Lidia and Saraí this time they were teaching a PDP class, a reading class as everybody know for all of us is more difficult developed a PDP class than a POP class but anyways we have to try to do our best in every class no matter what, at the beginning was challenging for the teacher becouse of the weather just came two students so we did the role of students and we are in another level and we are more  demanding but let's talk about Saraí Performance although she have to give us the class she did very good, very creative activities and a good performance,  she was very kind, she was very self confidence, good tone of voice and also she knew what to do, she knew how distribute the teams' activities.

Paola's performance was exelent and very interesting, she did a very good job becouse she developed the 3 durings and that's all of work, she give good and clear activities, clear and short instructions, she  catch atention's kids and also she know how to deal with all the work. Their activities were creative and also unic. I have never seen something like that, she was monitoring and she was looking if the students were doing the job.

In the of the class Lidia was in charge of developed the post during part, her permomance was exelent, I remember the last time she teach she was very sweet and her tone of voice was a little bit lower but this time she was sweet but rude at the same time with good tone of voice, she was calm and relax  even though she did have much time, in this activity she explain a new expression to say their dream profession.

Things I liked about the class: 

• Very creative activities.
• Great tone of voice.
• They took the role of teachers very serious.
• Clear and short activities.
• They were calm.
• They knew what to do in every minutes.
• They were self confidence.
• They were always saying "exelent, good job, great"
• They were teaching two differents skills listening-reading.
• Puzzle activity.

This I don't liked about the class:

• The draw activity.
• They did not ask if the students wanted to go to the batroom at the beggining of the class.
• Kids were talking.
• They give all of new vocavulary.
• Students did not have the change of coppy or repeat the vocabulary.

Things I would change.

• Don't ask for sit an stand up if is not necessary.
• Ask for silence when the students were talking.
• Don't make draw activities.
• Give more time to repeat and internalize the knew vocabulary.
• Tried to be more organize with time.

They did a very good job, we always have things to improve and things to change but with time, experience and practice we will have less things to improve, we learn new things everyday and we have to put in practice new things.

Week 6- vocabulary

Professions' Vocabulary.

Teachers: Daniel Reyes, Astrid Cruz, Xenia Guillén (me)

Hello everybody, today  I'm talking about my first time giving a vocabulary class, in my opinión this was an amazing class but because is my class or something like that I think this class was amazing for different factors, we as teachers always have things to improve and problems to solve but in our second time the things to improve and to solve were less than the first time we were teaching, by my own experience I can say that teaching a PDP class is harvest than a PPP class but anyways we have to learn to teach both because both are importants to students' learning.  AS I alredy say this was my second time giving class but the first time developing a PPP class, for me this class was a different experience and a better opportunity to do the activities and of course to interact with the students. I constantly say "repeat after me" but I use this technique becosuse for me work well I can hear if the students are pronouncing in the correct way and help me to se who is doing and who is not doing the activity. I'm sorry if someone get bored of heard that but as I alredy say for me this technique really works.

In this class we were teaching professions' vocabulary, at the begging of the class was not difficult to break the ice with the students, I started on time even if just 4 students were in the classroom over all the warm up activity was really nice the students could remember the structure and vocavulary of the last classes also they learn two new words "hot and cold". Then I started to show the flashcards and ask of they know the name of the profession the students knew just 3 of the 10 words so meantime I was showing the flashcards I was saying the name in Spanish and English and then I make them to repeat after me, the I put the flashcards and the name of the profession in the board and the students repeat around 3 times then I give a little time to coppy the vocabulary, in all that crosses more students came to the class and didn't know what we were doing so I explain again what they have to do and make them repeat again.  Also I explained the question "What are your favorites professions" and "my favorites professions are..." in that way they will know how to have a short conversation about that. 

Daniel's performance was really nice, his tone of voice was acording to the class, we was modeling and he used exelent materials to the activities, the first activity he played was a matching activity in the board , I could see that the students were so motivated to participate in this activity and they were helping to the ones who were doing wrong, they were focous and the most important thing they were analyzing and thinking carefully in the vocabulary just one or two students get wrong. Second activity, the soup of letters was a incredible activity was difficult to do and to found all the words but they did it, they found all the vocabulary they were focous in their soup of letters, it is true that this activity take more time than others activities but was effective, Daniel was modeling in each activity because of that the students didn't have problems to do any of the activities, the third activity memory game this game was attractive to the students and and the students use the memory could remember the numbers and also they were competing with the other group. 

Astrid's performance I really liked the way she explain the role play activity asking for help to teacher Daniel to show how they have to do the role play as I alredy say modeling is so important if you are modeling in a class everything will be easier. She was constantly monitoring if the students were doing the activity almost everybody was confused so she tried to explain group by group and then she pass them in fort to do the role play, some students were playing and speaking and she stopped that, I really love it. Then the activity of throw the ball to the imagen and say the word was awesome the students could remember all the words we teach, for us that was amazing. 

Things I liked about the class:

• Modeling.
• Monitoring.
• Tone of voice.
• Use of the material.
• We started at time 
• We could developed all the lesson plan.
• The students were focous in all the class.
• The students were motived to participed.
• Was not difficult remember vocabulary and structure.
•  Teacher's perfomance.
• Astrid correct the students after they have finishthe activity.

Things I do not liked about the class:

• Small pictures (even if we found a solutions was a problem)
• We took to more minutes of class.
• Students were talking.
• Confusion of some words.
• Students forgot the answer "my favorites professions are..."
• In the beginning of the class we ask if someone wanted to go the batroom and no one said that wanted to go and then around 5 minutos later a boy wanted to go to the batroom.
• We forgot put our names in a paper (sorry no one realized about it but I know was not okay) 

Things to improve:

• How to give instructions.
• Be carefully with  time to finish the class.
• Observation.
• To make the students play attention to their classmates.
• Production's monitoring.
• Carefully with the words we use.
• Put away the material we will not use after finish an activity (wram up).

To sum up, the class was competed, the objective was competed and we as teachers were more relax than the first time, I enjoyed to teach to the kids. At the end everything was okay and I really like this class, we tried to do it better I think we did it. Thanks for al the people that observe the class and give feedback and as alredy say this was an amazing class!

Until we meet us in another blog thanks for reading. :)