Fourth class

In this fourth week the class was given by Raul and Juan, I had the feeling that because they were the only pair of teachers which was formed by males only the children would somehow react different, yet it seems that there was no difference. From my experience I can tell that students, including myself, develop better in the presence of a female teacher, so this is the reason of my feelings.

The class started with some exercises of encountering new words, counting the number of letters, spelling the words, and pronouncing letter by letter the words. This was a great way to review what the students have previously learned. They used a lot of visual aids which gave the classroom a nice atmosphere, furthermore the visual aid also became tactile in certain activities, this was great because it keep the students attentive to most of the activities. The complete class was greatly planned and I felt that the students were really focused in the different tasks. If I were to teach this class again I would not touch the planning yet I think that some changes of the way that the teachers delivered the class could be improved because at some point there was some confusion about how to continue certain activities, this was due to nervousness in some extend, but the teachers manage to cover it from the students, but this was the only flaw that I will change if I were to teach this class again.

For my case of study, in this class Alan brought a toy from his house, this made that he was a little bit more energetic than usual, also he was showing his toy to the other children, this happened before the class started so there was no problem with the toy, Alan was still energetic though. When the class started he payed attention and in the activities from the beginning he did as he was told, however in the later activities he started to move around, he had too much energy, I think, and that made him move around. Alan answered all the questions that he was asked. At the end he behave properly because the class was doing the activities properly so I believe that he followed the example of his classmates.