Second Teaching Practice

Describe In this slice of lesson, I could notice students were paying more attention than in the first class I gave. Students were really interested in the topic that I was giving (relative clauses). The environment was really great since they were very active for the class. The arrangement was in the normal way to have a clear view of the board. I used materials such as markers, the board, some charts, and the book summit 2.
(Analyze)		Plan Action
Interpret	Generalize
I think the topic “relative clauses” is not easy to teach since it is sometimes kind of confusing; however, it is not impossible. I can say that is was not too hard to teach this topic since they had seen it in the previous class. Nevertheless, I had to develop a great class about it. This topic is really important as any other topic. And helps students to know how to introduce a description of a person or thing into a sentence.	Based on what I already know about relative clause, I think it is not as complicated topic to teach as others. But we have to be careful when giving the lesson about relative clauses in order to share a good explanation. Based on what I observed, I think students generally take advantage of the lesson by checking their book (summit2) to know more about the lesson. And they feel motivated to listen to the explanation the teacher gives, I believe that motivation can help student learning because this make them feel interested in knowing something new.	So, in the future, I will take advantage of what students know about the topic to save time. In future lessons I will apply an activity to develop an exercise to make the class more active. The next time I teach this lesson, I will prepare in a better way my material to give an excellent explanation.

First Teaching Practice

Describe In this slice of the lesson, I noticed that the students are not afraid to participate in the class. And, the majority of the students are very active. Otherwise, I developed just activities because of the topic “favorite things.” The environment was really nice, and I felt confident being in front of the group of students. For the arrangement of the classroom, I used the groups of four, and then I used the pair work because of the activities. The materials that I used were some pieces of papers which contained the information that they were going to use for developing the activities and also the board and markers to explain some words.
(Analyze)		Plan Action
Interpret	Generalize
Developing activities with students is sometimes difficult because some of the students tend to talk about other things instead of talking about the topic. And I have to be careful when grouping the students since we cannot have more than four people in a group if we want they work well. Working with groups into the classroom is great, but the teacher has to be monitoring students in what they are doing because if the teacher does not pay attention to the students, they are going to be doing something else. However, this kind of work is important to make students practice what they have seen in the lesson. These activities help the students to improve their speaking skill.	Based on what I already know about working with activities, I think it is important to develop some of them into the classroom to motivate the students, also to make them participate. Based on what I observed, I think students generally like to have the opportunity to participate for expressing their ideas. I believe that activities that are applied in a wrong way can hinder student learning because they can misunderstand the purpose of the activity.	So, in the future, I will apply activities taking into account the number of the member of the groups. In future lessons I will give clearer directions because, to be honest, I think that there were certain moments in which students misunderstood the directions.

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