Concluding "MY TEACHING EXPERIENCE"

On Friday 17th, I finished my teaching practicum experience. I was feeling so nervous by that moment since I really wanted to make a good class for my video recording.

The topic I was to present was “the modals”. This was a review for the students because the teacher had already explained the topic.

I started the class greeting students. As they seem sort of tired, I asked them about it and they told me they had a grammar exam. (I remember those days, so the least I wanted to do was to get into another boring class)

Since I already knew that the previous class was grammar, I wanted to start the class with the “hot potato game”, perhaps they were not used to do this type of activities, but they enjoyed and had a great time answering the questions that were, of course, matching the target structure.

Thanks to it, students got to feel more relaxed and more willing to receive the class.

Later, I started the grammar part by recalling their previous knowledge about modals. Students were given the chance to provide sentences, and construct the ideas all together.

Then, I used a controlled written practice for me to check their understanding. As in all the activities, I set the time to work on it. It was really nice when the checking time arrived because I could see they were analyzing each of the sentences as they were questioning some of the possible answers. This group has an excellent dynamic to work with. This always pushed me to be ready and study for each of the topics as they come up with possible questions. Somehow, it kept me active in my role.

After the practice, I asked them to make groups and discuss about some topics that were in it.

What they did not know was that at the end of their discussion moment, I was to choose two members per each group and make a panel forum, where they were to express their own ideas related to each of the topics to the rest of the class. 

I asked them to place 4 desks in the front for them to sit down. I set the rules for the panel forum and I also told them I was to choose the group with the strongest ideas. Students were really excited as they are very competitive and the rest was really attentive as their classmates were speaking their minds.

At the end of the activity, the winning team was chosen and students were happy about it.

To conclude my class, I thanked students for their cooperation and I provided them some candies. They clapped and that made me feel proud of everything I did in each of the classes. Believe me, it was a great sensation.

This was my last experience for this semester. I had a wonderful time and I enjoyed each little thing I had to faced because this made me realize even more that the teaching job is an ART.

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May God bless you all.