PRACTICE SEASON

This practice season I decided to go to practice in the Federel Numer 6, located in San Baltazar Campeche, because it´s a nice school and it has a calm atmosphere.

MI Inventory

Last class the teacher gave us an inventory to recognize our type of intelligence and also to use it with our students with the same purpose. This inventory will help us to prepare our classes in accordance to our students needs.

I worked with:
Cooperation...Yes
Order...Yes
Cleanliness...Yes
Collaboration...Yes

Multiple Intelligences Theory

Recently, we talked about Gardner´s theory that proposes different ways of knowing, understanding and learning.
He mentions eight groups of intelligences, that are the following ones: bodily-kinesthetic intelligence, intrapersonal intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, linguistic intelligence,
logical-mathematical intelligence, musical intelligence, spatial intelligence and naturalist intelligence.
I worked with:
Cleanliness...Yes
Order...Yes
Cooperation...Yes
Collaboration...Yes

REPORTED SPEECH

Recently we worked with Jenny, making a dialogue between a guest and a receptionist of a hotel. This dialogue consisted in make a reservation. Then we made a reported speech of this dialogue, for example if it was in present simple we had to change it into past simple. It was interesting.

I worked with:
Order...Yes
Cleanliness...Yes
Cooperation...Yes
Collaboration...Yes

CLASS WORK

Recently we were talking about some common cases in the classroom. We specially worked with one that asked what would we do if a student didn´t want to express his self in english. At first we commented that we would ask him the reason of why he doesn´t want to talk, and then undertake the possible solutions.
I worked with:
Cooperation...Yes
Collaboration...Yes
Order...No
Cleanliness...Yes

Class work

Last class, we worked using the internet to describe the activities that we made in classes.
Now we are blogging.
I worked with:
Collaboration: Yes
Cooperation: Yes
Order: Yes
Cleanliness: Yes

CLASS WORK

Recently, we worked in class with a list of activities trying to recognize actions that could be considered as communicative activities. We thought that the following are communicative activities: giving a prepared speech, acting out a scripted conversation, improvising a conversation and describing a picture to other classmates.

I worked with:

Cleanliness: Yes

Order: Yes

Collaboration: Yes

Cooperation: Yes

Class work

Today we were talking about one of the communicative english skills: speaking, which is a productive skill, and also we answered a task about an imaginary situation...what would we do if we were in a foreign language class and we must talk about oil pollution. We had to describe our thoughts and feelings about it.

I worked with:

Order: Yes

Cleanliness: Yes

Cooperation: Yes

Collaboration: Yes

My evaluation

Recently, we worked in class with a list of aspects which helped us to evaluate our performance as teachers, some of them talked of the strategies that we used in classes, and if we could know the type of learning of our students. Up, an example.

I worked with:

Cleanliness: Yes

Collaboration: Yes

Cooperation: Yes

Order: Yes

Checking

One aspect I missed to mention is that we were checking our plannings and evaluations.
Order: Yes
Cleanliness: Yes
Collaboration: Yes
Cooperation: Yes

Essay

TEACHING SKILLS

There are many skills recommended for teachers, but I think that some of them are more important than others. In this essay I would like to talk about some skills that I consider are necessaries in our work, helped by an author that I think is an important figure in the educative field, Michael Saint-Onge.

When we arrive to the classroom one of the main objectives that we have, at first is to introduce the students to our subject and content, and it’s necessary to capture students attention so I think that one skill that could help us would be:
- Prepare interesting classes
But, how can we make this possible? I think that a factor which would help us is showing our content brightly and useful. About the subject Saint-Onge (1997) mentions the suggestions of Klausmeir and others (1973) “Offer new stimulus with preference of using those that are familiar to the student. Raise questions before telling the information immediately. Vary the speed or intensity of the verbal communication. Make the student participate in the discussion or the learning process, more than demanding him his passive attention. Answer to the students interventions with the purpose of take care over their participation” I think that the last paragraph is very important because I could observe in my practice that the students answer better if you as a teacher can offer them known stimulus connecting them with new ones.

Other skill that I consider important is
- To have a good control of our voice
And why do I consider this aspect important? This is because I think that a good level in our voice could help us to make us understandable and because for example a high level of volume in our voice could be offensive to some students and also harmful.

- Be able to manage some stressful situations in the classroom
In this section I referred especially when some students are determined to ruin the existing discipline. I consider that to be able of make our class and atmosphere respectful is necessary to introduce known rules by the students and that if one of them do not obey, it is going to be consequences. This is important because this way we can teach them to be responsible of their acts.

- Develop strategies of planning
I think that other important resource as a teacher is be able of make plannings establishing general objectives of learning and also specific and particular objectives, because this way we could trace a path in the learning process, and also take part in the unexpected situations.

- Build the appropriate didactic material
When we present a content to our students it is influenced by the form in which we present it, that’s why I think the didactic material is very important, so I consider as the first step to prepare it, asking the students interests and realizing the way in which they learn, then we can focus in our activities without loosing our objectives, because it doesn’t matter a nice activity if it doesn’t reach our goal.

I would like to end this essay by saying that there are a lot of worthy skills in our work, that we can develop and that they depend on our needs and goals.


References;

SAINT-ONGE, Michael (1997): Yo explico, pero ellos…¿aprenden?
1ª Edición, Editorial Mensajero.

Class work

Recently, we talked about the four communicative skills in english language: reading, speaking, listening and writing. We discussed that we can classify this skills in two groups, the receptive and the productive skills and also we worked identifying the functions of some expresions in accordance with the context.
I worked with:
Order: Yes
Collaboration: Yes
Cooperation: Yes
Cleanliness: Yes

Back to school

Last week we came back to the Normal Superior and we could share our experiences of the practice season. We discussed some similar situations, specially related with aspects like school discipline, activities to reach our objectives and our plannings. In general we talked about the things that we liked the most and also of the situations that we didn´t like, all of this with the purpose of improve.

I consider that I worked with:

Collaboration...Yes

Cooperation...Yes

Cleanliness...Yes

Order...Yes

My activities

I decided to use visual material in my classes, I brought two posters of famous people to work with, one of Rey Misterio and the other of the cast of New Moon. At the end of my practice I gave the posters to the participative boys. I have to say that it was difficult for me to capture the attention of the students, but when they saw the material they started to be interested. I also played Guess who? Two students passed at the front with the image of an artist and made questions to their classmates to guess who were the artists. Some images of the material that I used, up.

My job counted with:

Order: Yes

Cleanliness: Yes

Collaboration:Yes.

Cooperation: Yes.

My classes

The topic of my classes were how to describe people physically and in their personalities. The teacher gave me the student´s book to get some ideas from it. I worked with the questions what does he/she/it look like? and what is he/she /it like? and also with adjectives like tall, short, thin, fat. slim, pretty, ugly and more. I used two posters of famous people to let the students describe them. Up, my plannings:

My job counted with:

Cleanliness: Yes

Order: Yes

Cooperation: Yes

Collaboration: Yes

How was my experience on the Practice Season

Now I´m going to talk about how was my experience in the last season of practice. I went to give classes in the Federal No. 6, located in San Baltazar. My group assigned was 2° "B", with a total of 14 students, I mean very few students. The first day that I went there, was on Tuesday and I did observation of my group to prepare my classes and I also observed my classmates Gaby and Mary. Up here the evidence.

My job counted with:

Cleanliness: Yes

Order: Yes

Cooperation: Yes

Coollaboration: Yes

Planning

Yesterdary we started to review some ideas about our plannings. For example my topic is describing people so I´m thinking in bring to the class some posters of known artists, to let the students describe them.

My job yesterday was:

Collaboration....Yes
Cooperation......Yes

Order................Yes
Cleanliness.......Yes

Practice Season

Well, practice season is about to start...we have gone to Federal No. 6 to ask permission for working there. I´m happy to be able of practice in this school, I haven´t gone there for a long time. Now I know that Im going to work with second grade, and that my topic will be how to describe people physically and mentally...Now I have many things in mind to make activities for my class :)
I have worked with:
Order...Yes
Cleanliness...Yes
Cooperation...Yes
Collaboration..Yes

WHAT DID I LEARN?

Last class we discussed about some real class cases, like if a boy doesn´t want to work or if the time of class is not enough for us and we have to pass to another activity, and the things that we would do in this cases..Now a view of my notes..

I think that my job in class was:

Order....Yes

Cleanliness...No

Cooperation...Yes

Collaboration...Yes

WHAT DID I LEARN AFTER THE CLASS?

Yesterday, we dealt with the types of teaching in depth and also we considered elements that a good teacher needs to have, like listening the students, showing respect, giving positive feedback being patient, amongst others.

Also we talked about the concept of "rapport" that means to be in tune with our students, creating an atmosphere of cooperation, respect and confidence.

Now, the consideration of my fulfillment.

Cooperation...Yes

Collaboration...Yes

Cleanliness...Yes

Order...Yes

CLASS WOK...WHAT DID I LEARN?

I consider that my perfomance in class yesterday was the following:

Order.................Yes
Cooperation......Yes
Collaboration.....Yes
Cleanliness........Yes

Yesterday we talked about three common ways to carry out teaching and over all we discussed in accordance with this clasification how could we call our own way of teaching, for example:
The explainer: is the teacher who`s method consists in giving to the students a presentation of the contents using the rhetoric, sometimes accompany with enthusiasm and motivation.
The involver: is the teacher who`s method consists in asking questions, make activities with the students colaboration, etc. all this with the main purpose of involve the students.
The enabler: this method is using by teachers that knows his students, the way in which they work and their needs. This teacher is not scared of sharing the responsability of learning with their pupils.

I consider that the method I use more often is the second one, but definetly I would like to improve and reach the last mentioned.

CLASS WORK

First of all, let`s check If I fulfilled the following aspects:

-Order...Yes
-Cleanliness...Yes
-Collaboration...Yes
-Cooperation...Yes

Now in relation with the class reading I think that three competences that I have are the following ones:
1. I try very hard to capture my students attention using specially visual resources.
2. I motivate my students with activities that contain the concept/pocedure/attitude that we raised previously.
3. I use daily life situations to introduce a topic.

And now, in relation with the competences that I would like to learn and improve in my practice, I consider the following ones:
1. Undertake peventive actions in relation with learning poblems as attention difficulties, etc.
2. Organize better my time class because sometimes I don`t have enough time.

JORNADAS DE OBSERVACIÓN Y PRÁCTICA DOCENTE

RÚBRICA

10-9

• Planea actividades de E-A congruentes con los propósitos y acordes con el enfoque del programa de estudio.


• Diseña actividades de E-A tomando en cuenta las características de aprendizaje de sus alumnos.


• Analiza situaciones imprevistas y de conflicto en el aula y hace uso de sus conocimientos previos para recuperar el control del grupo.


• Emplea el tiempo y espacio eficazmente en el aula para la E-A.


• Analiza las experiencias adquiridas en la asignatura de OPD y apliza las mismas en el aula y en el diseño de sus planes.


• Debate con sus alumnos las posibles situaciones en que les serán útiles los conocimientos a adquirir e ilustra con ejemplos los miasmos, así como los posibles escenarios cotidianos.


• Evalúa la práctica docente de sí mismo y la de sus compañeros.


• Propone y asimila experiencias que le permitan a él/ella y a sus compañeros mejorar la práctica docente.


• Propone alternativas de trabajo.

8-7

• Planea actividades de enseñanza con propósitos formativos, acordes con los planes y programas.


• Diseña actividades de Enseñanza e identifica situaciones imprevistas.


• Emplea el tiempo y espacio para la E-A.


• Reconoce casos similares en experiencias pasadas y planea en base a esas experiencias.


• Indica a sus alumnos los objetivos de clase.


• Comparte sus experiencias con sus compañeros y evalúa su desempeño docente.

What do I know? (Before the class)