MY
FIRST CLASS…
On Tuesday 5th, I had my first teaching experience with
Intermediate II, at first I felt kind of nervous because there are many
students in that section but then I started my class with a warm up activity
and as time was passing I started
feeling more confident as I began to interact with my students. Students also
started to participate when I asked something, that made me think that they
were somehow interested in what I was explaining. So I key point that helped me
relieve was the action of maintaining students ´attention and I also tried to
keep them interested all the time. I introduced my topic by talking about
sports, and as students love sports, I tried to active their schema by asking
them about their favorite sports because when they like something, that
something makes them participate and share their ideas in a more confident way.
Likewise, in the grammar notes I implemented what the
teacher told us, I mean I did not give a large explanation of the topic being
study, as I was teaching the PAST PARTICIPLE, I starting by asking them what
they remembered about it. And so they started giving me examples, as this topic
was more a review I did not teach a deep explanation, instead with students´
help, we all tried to come up with the usage of this tense. So at the end I gave
the pattern they use to form sentences with the past participle.
So, at the end I liked it very much because students
did participate in all the activities I developed.
Your are in the right way Mary!!! I implemented the same strategy and it is much better for them to be involved in the grammar explanation rather than pay attention or just copy a lot of definitions!!!! and as you baby, I felt a little bit nervous too....so keep working Mary!!! ;)
ReplyDeleteHello Mary..!!! What you say is just completely right.
ReplyDeleteNo matter how difficult a topic seem to be, you just need to make your students part of the process, actively. They enjoy when they feel part of something. Congratulations Mary!!!...
Mary!!! I feel so proud of you! Keep in that way, and let me tell you that I am glad to know you had a nice time with your students. I liked the way you explained the grammar part, because they learned and did not get bored. Congratulations!!
ReplyDeleteHi Mary, what you did was nice because i have seen how students get bored with too much explanation, so the class turns difficult. let me congratulate you for your first class and wish you the best for the next one.
ReplyDeleteHello! Mary
ReplyDeleteI consider that it is a good idea not to explain so much in the grammar part, and specially in intermediate and advanced levels because they already have an idea of the different topics. So, I like the strategy of making questions about what they already know.