a new experience!!!!

Well, as all of us know we already began our teaching and final teaching practice. But in my case, my first class was not as good as I planned before. Well, actually I considered that the class was good but to tell you the truth I don´t know what my tutor teacher thought about because she didn´t give the feedback as the previous teachers did in the last semester.

I began the class with a warm-up called either yes or no. I asked the students to stand up and I gave them some pieces of paper and I told them to imagine those small pieces of paper were coins. So I told them that they had to go around the class asking yes/no questions and the person who was answering didn´t have to say yes or no because if that happened, the person who asked will take the coin from the other person. So they were asking each other and they enjoyed the activity.

Then, I asked them to work in small groups and I gave them a reading and I asked them to try to order it because it was cut by paragraphs. I gave them some time and they were working and after that, we checked and read it.

After that, I played the song “Have you ever seen the rain”. When I was planning the class, I thought that the student may not like the song because it is kind of old but when they listened at it, they liked it. I gave them the lyric and they sang in the third time. And also, they wanted to sing the song again but the time was at the limit. So I couldn’t play it once more.

At the end, the feedback was not as the ones I had before with the other teachers because the teacher just told me that I had some grammar mistakes and that the warm-up was seven minutes and that that time was good. And that was my feedback. When I saw the evaluation sheet I got in shock because I got only low numbers and that´s going to affect my score at the end and I know that the class was not too bad to get that score. But anyway, I have to do better the next time.