Hot Reflexion #3, First Period

Hot reflection paper #3 (My third class in English Access Program)

Describe à It was 3:00 p.m., and I was ready to start my 50-minutes class at UNICAES in the English Access Program. This was my third and last time teaching in this level. I had to do a review about the last topics studied before that were “there is and there are” also ”demonstratives (this, these, that, those).” In this class, I decided to give a different class from the last two classes that I have already given, and I think that my class and all my effort worked very well because as a teacher I achieved my objective. The teacher was seating taking notes about my performance, and it made me feel a little bit nervous. Then, I started the class with a good warm-up, and I noticed that my students enjoyed it a lot. Then, I explain the grammar part. The class before I have used very good materials, very good aids also seating arrangement but this time I decided to do it differently to vary the class. After the grammar part, I assigned practice to my students. I noticed that my students understood the review because they did the practice by themselves. I tried to make the activities a little bit more attractive for the students. I interacted with all my students, and I think we created a good environment.
Analyze à		Plan Actionà So, in the future, I will make some changes in order to facilitate students´ learning.
Interpret I can say that I am happy because I explain very well and the students understood.	Generalize  Based on what I already know about students´ learning is that students learn better when they are interested on the topic.
I know that on some moments of the lesson I was a little nervous, and I know that I have to regulate the TTT and let students talk more than me.	Based on what I observed, I think that I talked more than my students. My students participated in every activity, but they had to produce more.	In the future lesson I will implement more practice to encourage student to speak more and produce the language.
The students´ understanding is the most important fact that the teacher has to take into consideration at the moment to explain a topic or simple give directions.	Based on what I know about students´ learning is that the teacher has to carefully observe the students´ response. Also, At the moment of giving instructions the teacher has to make them as simple as possible.	The next time I teach this lesson, I will practice giving instructions because in that way students can understand easily and work better.
In every class happens good and bad things. I consider that my class was good, but I know that I made some mistakes for example, the use of the board. But, in general the students understood because they developed all the activities by themselves.	I believe that the development of all the activities that I already used in this class can help my students a lot because with those activities I could see how much my students have learned.	In future experiences I will also include more speaking activities in order to know how much the students can produce. Also, I will improve the visual aids because I already know that I all the students have different kind of learning.