Seventh class

This time was our turn again to the the children, out topic was clothes, my objectives were clear from the very beginning, surpass my last class and show confidence and energy to the children. So we set up the classroom a long time before the class started, and we did some rehearsals. This is the way the classroom looked.


Also here is our planning for the class.

This time our turns were inverted, in other words Gloria was the first one to teach, this was good because changes are always an important part of life. Gloria started her class with much more energy than last time, she used the song that all other teachers have been using for a long time, she used a variation, she gave the students stick with faces that had different moods, and she told the students that whenever she say a emotion the students that had the face with that emotion will have to raise their stick. This activity was the warm up, and it went smoothly.

After that she introduced the topic, which was clothes, by using flash cards to show the students a picture of the clothes and the name and also how it was spelled. The flash cards were pasted by Gloria in the board when she had already introduced to the students.Also in the presentation stage she used real clothes to make students internalize the vocabulary, she presented the clothes to them and asked them to put the clothes on a line with some clothe hooks.

Next Gloria did an activity that was based on a song, this had as objective make students internalize and remember the name of the clothes and where the clothes should be used. The song was developed by Gloria singing the name of a clothe and making a gesture related with that clothe, the students were supposed to follow what Gloria was doing and they did, they were all very energetic. Is in this point where I would like to remark that the attitude and expressions that Gloria had until that moment were completely the opposite that in the previous class, she did not got depressed nor frustrated in the activities, instead she seemed energetic and joyful to be teaching the class.

Gloria´s last activity was for the children to paste small clothes in small dolls, this activity was done in a way that calmed the children down, it was very effective and I am grateful to Gloria by this, because it gave the opportunity to develop my class in a better way.

Finally it was my turn, long before the class started I had made up my mind to have a great teaching experience, in order to achieved this I had to defeat my past self from the previous class, in my mind I could only think in defeating my old self, to surpass what I had achieved in the previous class, these were my ideas at some point. While Gloria was teaching her class I was awaiting for my turn, I calmed down and remembered my objectives, I knew what needed to be done.

I started my class with a memory game, I did my greatest effort to use a strong voice without screaming in order to make the children following my instructions, at the beginning they were not enthusiastic about the memory game but that suddenly changed when I gave the flashcards, from a correct pair, to the student who had guessed the pair, from that moment on everyone wanted to participate, they were screaming asking for a turn to choose from the memory game. At the end I somehow managed to make everyone participate in an equal way. What I felt in this activity is that the students wanted to participate, they seemed eager to speak to call my attention, it was a heaven to earth difference when comparing it to those students from the first class. In my opinion what has helped the development of the class is that the children have gain experience and confidence from the previous class, making them more likely to participate in class. Nevertheless, I worked a lot to be as energetic as possible to make them enjoy the class.




My second activity involved real clothes, the objective was that the children practice the name of the clothes and also to say what others were wearing. This activity was short due to time, but the objective was achieved, the activity had some setbacks, for example when the moment to choose the clothes arrived, the children went over the clothe at the same time this was a little messy. After that in a semi-circle, the children were saying what other children were wearing.This process was repeated some time. I think that what I could have done better in this case was the way that  the children were arranged in the classroom.

The last activity was using a variation of a song that the students knew very well., here is a video that shows what happened in there, Song

To sum up I think that I achieved my personal goals of self improvement and I also enjoyed teaching the class, so this was my second practiced and I am glad to say that I am proud of it.