My second class

Second class – English Access Program

Class 2 – Monday, August 10^th, 2015

Description

This is my second class in the English Access Program and I had good expectations about the class. I started the class with a kinesthetic warm up; therefore, I developed it in the soccer field, and students enjoyed being outside running and making sentences using adjectives in the superlative form. After the warm-up, we came back to the classroom, and the seating arrangement was as the first class in rows in front to the board. I developed the first semi-controlled activity; the students had to answer some questions using the superlative form of the adjectives that were in the questions; in addition, I checked the activity by asking to some students. For this second class I used more visual aids; for example, I prepared a matching activity where the students had to match an adjective with a picture and make a sentence using both things. I could notice that they enjoyed that activity because many people wanted to participate. Moreover, I developed a wrap-up as last activity. As the first class, students participated in all the activities and the rapport was better than the first class because I perceived more confidence to each other. In addition, I managed the time perfectly because I finish all the activities at 5:00 pm and felt less nervousness than the first class. As last point, the students asked me a lot of questions in order to clarify their doubts, and I really liked the interest that they showed for learning.

Interpret

In this second class, I could notice that students really enjoy the warm-up because it demanded a lot of movements, but I spent a little more time; in addition, I realized that visual aids are a very good methodology in order to encourage students to learn; however, it was necessary to support them with examples and body language, so it means that we as teachers have to use all the resources that we have in order to improve the learning process.

Generalize 

To give clear directions to students is really important because it makes the teachers’ life easier. Some advantages of giving clear directions are students ask less, work faster and save time. In addition, if students do not understand the directions orally, teacher can write them on the board or he can use body language for supporting the explanation, but the best way is to show them some examples about the activity.

Plan action

For future classes, I ‘m going to provide some examples for every activity; moreover, I am going to use more visual aids in order to increase the students’ learning, and I am going to write some rules on the board before starting the class; it will help me to control them better.