In my third class in Basic English I faced a new situation. I developed a warm up called "scrambled basket," but I had a little problem. The students had to choose a verb in past and memorize their partners' verbs too, but when we were playing the game most of them forgot their partners' verbs. The game turned kind of complicating, but at the end I explained again and all the students developed the activity.
I learned that sometimes I have to think in many possible ways to explain a single activity because maybe the one I am using is not as clear as I think.
That day, the teacher told me to develop a dictation practice and I have to say that I don’t like those activities at all because I spend many hour looking for an article or important piece of writing. Fortunately, after 4 hours, I found an amazing article which gave students a Little fun.
Something that happened to me is that I was teaching about the endings of the regular verbs in simple past. I said that we pronounce with /id/ when the verbs end with /k/ /d/. At the end, the teacher asked me “how do you pronounce the this “pronounced”?” In that moment I thought that she wanted to prove me, so I pronounced it with /id/ at the end. After that, I realized that I had made a mistake, but it was too late. She made me remember what I had said about that rule.
From that experience, I learned that I have to trust myself because sometimes people ask me just to see how sure I am about what I am saying.
sure there are different ways on how to explain something!!, o if we see that students are not understanding something in this way, that´s the moment in which we have to find another way to say something.
ResponderEliminarAll the time, we are going to be proved about we are teaching. we just need to be sure on what we are doing!!!!!!!!!1