Hot Reflection #3, Third period

Hot reflection paper #3 (My third class teaching adults in Diplomado at UNICAES)

Describe à It was Thursday 12, 2016 and I was ready to start the class. I have prepared great material for the class but I have to wait THIRTY minutes to start the class. I was so disappointed because I think that they do not appreciate the effort the practitioners do. At eleven thirty, I started the class with only two students; believe me that it was so hard and sad. After some minutes the third and last students entered to the class so I taught the class with only three students. The teacher was seating on his desk just observing my development. Furthermore, I liked the student's participation because they asked and gave their opinion about the topic. I used a chart, markers, worksheets and masking tape.
Analyze à		Plan Actionà So, in the future, I will try to use the same material or maybe to do it simpler.
Interpret I can say that it was a really good experience but I did not like the way they are that they assist to classes when they want to do it.	Generalize  Based on what I already know about teaching is that it is a big and serious problem when students do not assist to every class.
I can suggest to the students form this level that they have to be more responsible with the assistance.	Based on what I observed, I think students generally get lost when they do not assist to the preview classes.	In future lessons, I will try to encourage students to be more responsible.
I think that if a student wants to learn, he or she will do his-her best.	Based on what I observed, I think students generally arrived late. On the other hand, they worked but sometimes I did not see them motivated.	In future experiences I will also include more written practices because they do not like to stand up and do something different.

Hot Reflection #2, Third period

Hot reflection paper #2 (My second class teaching adults in Diplomado at UNICAES)

Describe à It was Monday May 02nd, and I was prepared to start my second 50-minutes class at UNICAES. This time two students arrived on time, but I had to wait some minutes in order to give students some extra time to arrive. I started the class at 11:15 a.m. with three students. This class was better than the previous class because the students were motivated, and I could see the desire of them to participate in the class. The teacher was sitting near the windows just evaluating the development of the class. I was relaxed when I started the class because the previous class I created a good rapport with my students. I started the class with a good activity about vocabulary so students had to stand up and choose a paper in order to paste it on the board next to the right definition of it. After, the students did a fill in the blanks activity, and I was so impressed because the three students were active and motivated developing the activities. At 11:30 a.m. another student arrived to the class. I tried to incorporate her in the activity in order to make her part of the class. I really liked this class because I could notice the students' understanding and the students' response in every activity. At the end of the class, the students were happy because they understood the topic. For this class, I used authentic material to present to the students the new vocabulary, and it helped them to understand in an easy way. For this class, I used sheets of paper, the board, markers, worksheets, eraser and masking tape. I really liked this particular class. J
Analyze à		Plan Actionà So, in the future, I will try to improve the material that I used for this class because I noticed that this material was really useful for developing this topic.
Interpret This class was totally different from the previous one because the students were motivated participating in the activities.	Generalize Based on what I already know about teaching is that the teacher has to create a good rapport in the classroom with the students in order to bring confidence to them.
I can say that those three students that I had in the class were self-motivated to learn and put English into practice.	Based on what I observed, I think that students had the potential to learn English, but the problem is that just three of seven students attend to the classes.	In future lessons, I will try to encourage students to assist at all the classes.
I think that it is important to create a good rapport in the class because in that way students tend to produce better the language.	I think that the students produce better the language when they feel comfortable in the classroom.	In future experiences I will implement more speaking activities in order to see what students can produce.
This time I did not explain grammar. I just did a review of the topic in discourse in order to see the students understanding.	I noticed that students liked the class because they enjoyed every activity. Also, some students told me that they really liked how I designed the class.	In future experiences for sure that I will continue using authentic material and speaking activities in order to make the students part of the class.

Hot Reflection #1, Third period

Hot reflection paper #1 (My first class teaching adults in Diplomado at UNICAES)

Describe à It was Thursday around 11:00 a.m. when I was ready to start teaching my first 50-minutes class in diplomado at UNICAES, but there was a problem because no one was in the classroom so I had to wait some minutes for some of them to arrive. After fifteen minutes, three students arrived to the classroom, and I started the class with those three students. It was so different for me because it was the first time that I started a class with only three students. By the time was passing, the rest of the students arrived to the classroom. There are just seven students in that classroom. The teacher was sitting near the windows paying attention to the development of the class. When I started the class I was nervous because it was my first time teaching adults. The students seemed interested in the class. I had to teach the topic “causative verbs,” and I created an interesting and interactive chart in order to facilitate the students' learning. In this particular class, the students are very intelligent, and there is a guy who all the time is asking. It does not matter if the teacher gives him a very good answer; it is not enough for him. In my class, it was a real problem because I was explaining the topic, and he was asking a lot also when we as a class were checking the result of a worksheet he was asking a lot if he can use pass or present in the answers. I answered all his questions, but it did not help too much because he asked me the same question again. The rest of the students understood so quickly the new topic. On the other hand, the students were interested in every activity I developed because he took some picture of the material I used for the class. For this class, I used sheets of paper, the board, markers, worksheets, eraser, a chart and masking tape. Thus, I really liked to teach in this new level because I really know that it is a big challenge for me, but I will do my best.
Analyze à		Plan Actionà So, in the future, I will use the same material that I used this time but I will try to implement new and easy way to practice the topic in discourse.
Interpret This level is so different from the previous ones that I had to teach because in this level the students are Licenciados, and it is a challenge for the teacher to teach.	Generalize Based on what I already know about teaching is that adults learn in a slower way.
I can say that some students from this level do not like too much English and it is a big problem that affect the student’s motivation.	Based on what I observed, I think students are motivated but they are studying English because it is a requirement of the university.	In future lessons I will try to encourage students to feel the desire to learn English.
I think that it is important to establish a relationship between teachers – students to increase the confidence in the classroom.	I believe that when teachers and students establish a relationship, it increases the rapport in the classroom.	In future experiences I will take more time in order to know more things about my students and in that way I can adapt the activities according their likes.
The grammar part was so interesting in the way I developed it because I used an interactive chart which was very useful for the understanding of the students. here you can see the chart that I used.	I noticed that all the students understood the topic very easy because of the visual aids that I used. Also, I noticed that some students were taking picture because they like how the chart looked like.	In future experiences for sure that I will use interactive chart because I like the students response when they see all those kind of things.