Today was not a good day in my practice. Where can I start from? Well, I prepare a good warm up and an excellent presentation; grammar? it was so so.
I arrived early to the classroom and prepared some material I was going to use in the class. This time, I arranged the desks in a semi circle. I started with the warm up. Students made three lines and I explained the activity. They had to "write" a verb on the back of their classmates, and the person at the front of the line had to write the verb on the board in order to get a point for his/her team. To tell the truth, the activity sucked. Some of the students made a lot of noise and were tricky.
The presentation was the only thing that was nice. I use a reading that was in the student's book. I read the text the first time; the second time the students read along with me and after that I made two teams and asked for 4 representatives from each group. I pasted some strips on the board; such strips had verbs in the simple past tense that appeared in the text. I read the text again and the representatives from the groups had to pick up the words from the board. My tutor liked this activity a lot because it is a good way to have a reading practice.
The worst part of this session of practice was the grammar part. I started teaching about the simple past tense, but my ideas got mixed in my head and I taught (well I tried to teach) a lot of things at the same time; I started with the past form of the regular verbs, continued with the past form of the verb Be, and finished talking about voiced and voiceless sounds at the end of the verbs. It was a disaster! I continue stating that I do like teaching grammar, but this time I don't know what happened. I think I got nervous because of a strange and unknown reason that I am still wondering how could be possible. I guess I don't even have an eight as a grade; maybe I got a seven, a sad seven.
Conclusion... I do have to do it better next time because this time I sucked. That's what I learned.
Ayayayyy Sandor!!! but yeehhh that`s part of life, things do not always go the way we expect but oh well ,, nothing can be done now :( but do not worry there is still a last chance to bring up your endless capacity and i know you will redeem yourself next week!!!
ResponderEliminaranimoooo!!!
hay chicken...sometimes what we have prepared for the class did not work as well as we wanted but from those bad experiences we learned more and the next time we try to do it better. I know how you may feel because I had the same experience in one of my classes but don´t worry, you´ll have a nice grade!!! =) and for the next time try just to talk about one or two things of grammar and try not to mix or give all the grammar at the same time, go step by step...=) you´ll do better next time...=)
ResponderEliminarDont worry chicken you know we have good days and also bad days,a mean this is not the heaven this is teaching and well we all are learning from the bad and good things.But I relly like the way you described the class because you were so sincere that I can feel what you felt at the time of teaching. And if you see I dont know all just describe the bad things but It is hard to accept the things that did not go so well.
ResponderEliminarNext class you will get a ten I know just work hard and good luck ok (=
You just had a bad moment Raul. I know you can do it better. Don't worry, the important thing is that you learned something.
ResponderEliminarDon't worry chickensito, you'll see next time will be better. Just try to relax and maybe you should write down what exactly you are going to teach so in the moment you don't teach more than you should...
ResponderEliminarI know you are a good teacher and not because you had a bad day, it means that it will be always like that.
Keep working...