Friday, April 20, 2012

Reflecting about my Last Class


 Last Wednesday, I taught my Ss the numbers from zero to one-hundred. I’m pretty sure my Ss understood the lesson because at the end of the class I did an activity which proved me that they clearly understood the lesson. So there were many aspects that help me understood what’s cooking in class.
   
 First of all, I could reach all my objectives; my Ss learned everything I taught them even though everything in the class was going so fast since they have been studying English for many years. However, I also had to face some problem.

    For example, at the beginning of the class, I tried to make my Ss work in groups, but I couldn’t; they wanted to work with the same persons as they are used to.  So I would like to group them differently; that’s one of the things I would like to change in my classes and I also would like to encourage my Ss to participate in my classes.

     Second, in my class, I made use of photocopies which were very effective, my Ss try to use isolated words to communicate in English, and I tried not to speak to much and let my Ss to do it. I think that having done those things helped me to engage many of my Ss in the activities.
    
 Moreover, I developed many different activities with different types of materials, but I think the most interesting activity for my Ss was the dictation and writing activity, and the warm up was the least interesting one.

      So, I consider that I have to improve many things for the next class; for example, my directions were not so clear because I had to repeat them three times, I have to try to make all the activities I will develop to flow smoothly , and to provide more opportunities to my Ss to learn because I think that a good teacher is the one who cares about his or her Ss learning process, so the most important thing I will like to accomplish in every class is to make my Ss use meaningful English.

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