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.