TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I know I haven’t written about my teaching experience since September 24^th but let me tell you I’m done with the 60 hours. The second and third week were awesome because as I said in my first entry I had one of the best groups, they are always working and participating, and they understand almost everything without any problem. I did a lot of activities to help them memorize the verbs but they didn’t memorize all, I consider it requires extra effort at home studying them and some of the studnets didn’t do it. Another aspect is that I got two new students in the middle of the module; they came from another branch so they already knew how intensa’s system works, but they were a little behind of the rest of the group, so I tried to help them during break and after class to clarify doubts. By day 12 they had the evaluation and we started module 10 which is about irregular verbs, I only stayed with them in that module for 2 days because it was time to change group (we change groups every two weeks).

This week I had another group they aren’t as a good as the other one but each group is different and I learn new things from each one. This group is in module 4, they are studying wh- questions and to be honest for some of them is very difficult to know when they have to use what, where, when so they spend a lot of time doing grammar. I had two experiences this week: we do improvisations in class; the idea is to test the current extent of the pair’s acquired language skills: grammatical accuracy, vocabulary range, pronunciation, and communicative fluency and effectiveness; since the students don’t have time to prepare the conversations they never want to participate. This week I had a student that didn’t know what to say and she started crying I was thinking if I had said something that made her cry, but then it was just that she was very nervous. The other experience was with an exercise from one of the books we use, they exercise has some questions like “Is kate young or old?” and according to the picture they have to answer, the second day of the activity we include another question to reinforced old grammar or to teach new vocabulary. So I included 2 questions “what is she like?” and “What does she look like?” I did it with 10 pictures and it took the students more than an hour trying to understand the vocabulary and pronunciation. I hope the following week they can improve their grammar problems and fluency.