Hot Reflection #1, Second Period

Hot reflection paper #1 (My second time to teach English with real students)

Describe à It was Friday 11th when I was ready to teach my first class for the second period. I had to teach just to ten advanced students so it was around 6:45 a.m. when I was ready to start the class at UNICAES but just two students were into the classroom, and I had to wait some minutes while the rest of the students arrived to the classroom. In this time, I had to develop the topic “Subjunctive Mood.” I was a little nervous when I started the class but I was confident in myself. I remembered that the teacher was sitting in his desk near to the door; writing about my performance while I was developing the class. The students were interested in the class while we were developing an interesting activity. I decided to introduce the topic using a video, and I noticed that the students enjoyed the way we did it. I started the activity and played the video, the students' response was very satisfactory for me because they showed me that they understood what the topic was about. This time I did not have any inconvenient with my new students. I arranged the seating using the horse shoe, and it helped me to increase the rapport between students and me. In this class, I used a computer, speakers, LCD projector, charts, and sheets of paper in order to involve my students in the activities and make the class more dynamic. In addition, the use of this material helped to guide the class and to know the different learning styles that my students had.
Analyze à		Plan Actionà So, in the future, I will try to implement new and similar techniques that the ones I used in this class because I noticed that it really worked with this group of students that I have. I will implement a different way of give direction in order to facilitate their learning.
Interpret I can say that my students are so intelligent, and they are focused on what they want to learn because I noticed their interest in the subject. They followed and understood all the direction that I gave them about the activities.	Generalize Based on what I already know about teaching I think that students understand and respond according the level of English they have, and I noticed that my group responded very well at all the activities that I assigned to them.
I know that I was nervous in a moment of the class; especially when I was starting it but while the time was passing I felt more comfortable because I could notice that my student understood and started participating.	Based on what I observed, I think students generally participate in the activities because they feel comfortable, and interested in developing them. In addition, I have to learn how to calm down when I get nervous in front of a class.	In the future lessons I will try to control myself when I get nervous in front of a class. Also, I will try to implement new techniques in order to motivate students to participate.
Follow students' likes and interests is very important for the development of the class because in that way students pay more attention to the class although not all the time it is possible to follow students' likes and interests.	Based on what I already know about make the class more interesting is that not all the time I as a teacher can follow the students' likes and interests because if I do it, the main objective of the class can be lost.	In future experiences I will try to implement different kind of activities in order to facilitate the learning process.
When I develop the activity using a video, I could notice that students were motivated because of the activity. I noticed that the vocabulary that appeared in the video help them to understand the following activity.	I believe that when the teacher tries to implement technology in his ∕ her classes, the result can be better that using the traditional way to teach; using just the board.	In future experiences I will also include some activities where the students can implement their knowledge about technology in order to get them familiar with it.