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.