My Great Experience as a Teacher Assistant with Teenagers in Practicum II !!!

I wrote this  d the once that lost they had to answer some questions about the previous class. 2- After that, students were to the lab to do the quiz and that last 40 minutes. 3What they could infer about. 4- Finally teacher did a warm up very nice, 5- Students were participating and they enjoyed it the game 6- Some students were making some mess in the class but  7- Students were in silent paying attention 8- Students were very focus on no to loss. 9- I started the class with the builder community and was”  10- Students were much participated 11- Students were very quiet, focus on what the teacher was dictating.  12- they talked about other things but without letting to do the activity asked. 13- Students were nerves and very shy . 14- Some students answered the questions others just were in silent. 15- The most meaningful teaching technique from my mentor teacher was the dictated because although,

I should have written this  And for the students who had lost, they should answer a question about the last class. After that, students went to the lab to do the quiz which last around 40 minutes. What they could infer about. Finally, Teacher did an activity very interested. Students not only were participating but also enjoying the game. Some students were making disorder in the class.      Students were quiet and paying attention.       Students were concentrated to not loss.     I started the class with the builder community about.       Students were more engaged.            Students were paying attention about what the teacher was dictating      They were talking about other things but at the same time they were doing the activity requested.     Students were nervous. And shy       Some students were answering the questions; however, others were just doing nothing.        The most meaningful   teaching technique that I learned about my mentor teacher was the dictate.

Did it help you? How did it help you? How did you feel after doing the exercise? Would yo  do this with your students? •        This activity has helped me a lot in order to analyze and correct my errors so, in this way I can avoid them in the future and at the same time I Improve my grammar mistakes.  I would do the same with my students because I realized that is a very useful activity to make students improve. ·

The first day was on Saturday September 3rd with the students of module 10, I was anxious and at the same time a little bit nervous, because I was thinking how would be the students´ attitude with me. On the other hand, I felt very lucky to be in this course because was about reading and I considered one of the most difficult skills to teach for the reason that this skill is seen as a boring thing but after this weeks I could learned that everything depend of the kind the activities and the. There were 13 students and; even though; they were a few I realized that the group was a little bit hard to control. In addition, I could corroborate what we have been studying at the beginning of the courses about of the adolescents’ development because of their behavior in the classroom. For instance, they were thinking almost all the time in relationships, hobbies and games etc. in effect, they matched with the previous characteristics about teens.

Then, on Saturday September 15th I started with a new group about module 14 this time was with grammar skill. That say I was more relaxed. However, There were 20 students it was easier the way to controlled them than the other group.to emphasize this  I could see that they were a little bit more interested in learn and to participate in all the activities requested because most of them were above to finish the high school so I consider that the age influence a lot .

I participated 5 times, two times doing the community builder, the other time with one hour class and the other with the encounter, clarify and remember stages with 30 minutes lesson. I can say that I had an awesome and beautiful experience with these two groups in which without doubt I learned a lot of things. I felt very accepted not only  by the two groups but also for My mentor  I could feel  it with every collaboration of the students in all the activities I had the opportunity to do,  and also with the respect they showed me at the moment I was teaching and performance what  I was assigned .

Additionally, I could say that my feelings and reactions were different from the beginning to the last time, due to at first; I was very nervous, but at the end I felt more confident and calm when I taught a class or any stage. I have learned I lot of valuables strategies and methods that I would like to apply in my next classes working as a teacher. Besides; I really want to say Thank you to my mentor Sandra Crespin I am very grateful to her because she was very nice and cordial with me. She has taught me plentiful things not only as a professional but also as a person. Of course, I would say thank you a lot to teacher Yanira for all the pieces of advice  and feedback she has given to me for the rest of this course .

Some positive aspects that I would like to list are the followings :

•        I noticed that My mentor was very enthusiastic and dynamic in every class, so that really helps with the mood of Ss, as a result I could see how they were engaged in every task and activity; although was a reading and grammar classes.

•        She avoided reaping the same games, on the contrary; she applied different strategies and methods in her classes

•        She was very patient with all their students.

•        All her activities tried to get involve all the students.

Negative Aspects:

•        I just observed one negative thing and was that because my mentor was very lovely and friendly there were some students that were kind of disrespectful with her. I think that with have to be careful with this because it is true that we can be friend of our students but we have to have a limit in order to avoid future problems.

This was the last group I was assigned!! Module 14 

My Error analysis !!!!

I wrote this 1.      I like people call me just Ale!  2.      I got consciousness the important of learning and speaking another language had it  3.      Even tough, 4.      I really need to imrpove a lot of things like my confident and my nervoues at the begining of teaching a class so 5.      they do not have develop the prefrontal cortex whcich the adults has so that makes them 6.      they are develop the limbic area  7.      hey do not have a self control to mesure the consecuences abou 8.      we have to look differents strageries 9.      to make them get involve in the activities

I should have written 1.      People can call me Ale! 2.      I realized the importance of learning and speaking a second language was. 3.      Although. 4.      I really need to improve a lot of things such as my nerves at the beginning of teaching a class. 5.      They have not developed the prefrontal cortex. On the other hand, the adults have already acquired, so that make them… 6.      They are just developing the limbic area. 7.      They do not have self-control to measure the consequences about. 8.      We have to look for others strategies. 9.      In order to they can get involved in all the activities.

Did it help you? How did it help you? How did you feel after doing the exercise? Would you do this with your students? Without doubt this error analysis really helped me to realized that I committed basic mistakes in my blog because being honestly I did it quickly, I did not even check it .I Just wrote without paying attention the coherence and the finger errors; and that was because I was kind of procrastinated person. After I did this activity I felt bad because I could do it better but because of wait until the last minute to do it I made many basic mistakes in which I already know the correct writing. Definitely, I would apply this kind of task with my students in the future because in this way students can analyze what´s are the mistakes they have committed and how is the correct way to write it and that helps students to improve and to recognize the error to avoid the next time.

My Second Time as a Teacher Assitant, was Awesome!!

Describe activities your mentor teacher was doing	Describe the way students reacted to the activities	Describe what came to your mind while observing the activity. Would you do the same? Why? Would you modify it? Why?
·         I started the class with the builder community and was” sharks are coming” in this game  students  had to walk around the classroom in a circle and when I said “sharks are coming” students had to ask how many and I said a number so they had to look for  the number of people I mentioned to get into groups and the once that lost they had to answer some questions about the previous class. ·         Then teacher assigned everybody a partner to work in a page. The page given was about the last topic of global warming , after that teacher gave them some important instruction in Spanish in order to make everything clear because there were some students making some mess in the class, so after that students calmed down. Later on, teacher started to ask them the answers of the worksheet given and she did it randomly asking one student a number then she asked other student left or right and the student with the direction just said it and the student who had the number when she counted he/she had to answer the question  and so on. ·         Then teacher asked them to read the last article for the ones that could not come the last Saturday and for the ones that came too. ·         After that, students were to the lab to do the quiz and that last 40 minutes. ·         After that, teacher played a video about the global warming . she played twice and the second time she asked them for specific questions and what could they infer about of some vocabulary. ·         Finally teacher did a warm up very nice, she asked them to stand up and every student had to look for a partner to shake their hands, give a hug and to turn around and when she counted 3 the last  person to sit had to answer a question about the reading.	·         Students were participating and they enjoyed it the game. ·         Some students were making some mess in the class but after the instruction of the teacher they started to work on their page. ·         Students were in silent paying attention, ·         The students that did not come the last Saturday they were reading the article but the ones that came they were bored or wasting their time in others things. ·         They did the quiz ·         Some students were writing some details and others were just watching the video. ·         Students were very focus on no to loss.	I would do it in my future classes because I think is a game in which you can include all students in the activity. ·         I think that the way she called their attention was correct because in that way they calmed down so I would do the same. ·         I would do the same because I could see that really works. ·         I would no do it this because I think is a waste of time so I would ask the students that came the last class to explain the others one what the text is about. ·         I would do the same but I only would change that I would ask them since the very beginning for the specific questions . ·         I really liked this warm up I woul do it in the same way because is a good activity to make students have fun and at the same time they are having an assessment.

The most meaningful teaching technique from my mentor teacher was the last part of the class because although, is was just a game was very attractive for the students´ attention and they had fun but learning .

My First Experience as a Teacher Assitant

Describe activities your mentor teacher was doing	Describe the way students reacted to the activities	Describe what came to your mind while observing the activity. Would you do the same? Why? Would you modify it? Why?
·         At the beginning of the class, teacher started asking one specific student to pass in front to write the date on the board. ·         After that, teacher started the class asking what the global warming was and at the same time she was writing on the board all the things students were saying. ·         Later on, teacher asked students to stand up and to make a circle, she started to ask some questions about the last class, asking one by one about what they remembered. ·         Then, teacher asked students to make pairs , and she begun to dictate some words related with the global warming and at the same time she was spelling the words .once she finished to dictate the words she asked them to write a definition  by themselves without dictionaries just with their own words. ·         When students finished the previous activity, teacher asked them to interchange pairs to share their meanings and compare each other about it.at the same time teacher was walking around monitoring every pair. ·         After this activity, teacher asked them to go outside to another group to ask some questions  of the book related with the global warming. ·         Then, teacher asked students to read one by one  an article of the book about the global warming and while every student was reading  the teacher made some pauses  when someone pronounced a word in a correct way in order to correct them. ·         After finishing the reading teacher asked them specific questions about the new vocabulary of the article ·         After some minutes teacher sked them to stand up and she started  to ask them one by one three words of the article they could remember about the new vocabulary . ·         Finally, teacher asked them a number from 1 to 12 and the person who guessed the number won a candy. She did three times.	·         The student felt good because she was being taken into account by the -teacher. ·         Some students started to make a brainstorm of all the things that came to their minds about the topic. ·         Students were much participated, so that means they felt comfortable doing this.   ·         Students were very quiet, focus on what the teacher was dictating. Students were working in the task. ·         Students were working in the activity they talked about other things but without letting to do the activity asked. ·         Students were nerves and very shy at the moment of asking the questions to the new classmates. ·         Students were with fear to say a word they were not sure how to pronounce. ·         Some students answered the questions others just were in silent. ·         Students were answering the questions. ·         Students were anxious.	·         I would do the same because is a good way to wake up students. ·         I would do almost the same but I would do it with different images with the problems of the global warming in a power point presentation, in order to make it more attractive. ·         I would use this technique because is a good way to have a better control of the class and also  students do not get bored and at the same time is a god opportunity to make students speak. ·         I definitely, I would do the same because I think this is an activity in which students activate their brains because they put in practice the grammar structures and vocabulary they know. ·         I would add one thing may be I would ask them to share the information with class one by one. ·         I would do the same because is a great activity to make students interact  with new people and that is such as real life. ·         I would use this technique of reading one by one because most of the people think reading is kind of boring and with this way students are paying attention and waiting for their turns to read. I just would change the way to correct them, because I think that would be better to do it at the end of the reading  so , I would make them to repeat three times every single mispronounced word buy everybody together. ·         I would do the same but just asking what´s the meaning or the new vocabulary but I would use some flash cards to this, ·         I would do it different, I would make two groups and I would ask them the same questions but such as competition in order to make it more funny. ·         I think I would do the same because I consider that candies should be given at the end of a class but not in the class.

The most meaningful teaching  technique from my mentor teacher was the dictated because although, is something very common I could see how this really works activating the brains of their students at the moment of they have to think and at the same time they put in practice all vocabulary and structures they already know.

something about me !!!

My name is Alejandra Amaya I like people call me just Ale! I am 25 years old. I have two beautiful children; one boy who is 4 years old and one girl who is 3 years old. I am studying english for teaching at the Don Bosco University, in El Salvador. This is my fourth year . I chose this major not only like a proffesion else but because I really want to be a teacher. I love learning different kind of languages, I can speak english, italian and in this moment I am studying french at the University and also I am taking the courses in The Alianza Francesa. In 2009 I graduated in English from Academy Europe, I started my studies in english since I was 12 years old but at the beginning was because of my fathers´ pressure but then with the past of the time I got consciousness the important of learning and speaking another language had it .






When I sterted the University I did it in the major of tourism but after one year I switched to teaching because I really conceived that what I really liked was teaching, and now that I am about to finish I do not regret it at all, I am pretty sure and at the same time happy to be where I really want.






I believe that you have to love and enyoy your proffesion because in that way you will give and do your best in your job, otherwise; you will see it just like a salary that you have to receive.






One of my goals is to become a good teacher not only of English but also of french, and I want to put in practice all I have learned like all those good pieces of advice, the feedback for my teachers and my classmates and apply the correct the strategies.


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I already took the practicum I with children ,and now I am doing my social hours at the poli in Fusalmo, helping like a teacher with teenagers in the Interactive English. Even tough, I have some experience working with teens I am aware that I really need to imrpove a lot of things like my confident and my nervoues at the begining of teaching a class so, I have to work hard on my weaknessess and I hope to give my best to this course !!










Now I want to share with you some of many things that got my attention and things that I did not know about the development of the brain .First, I did not have any Idea about that the behaviour of teenagers has a reason and is because they are in the process to deveolop some parts of the brain,they do not have develop the prefrontal cortex whcich the adults has so that makes them in most of the cases not to pay attention to the things they should do it because what is meaningful for them at this age are the trivial things like music. fashion, relationships, sex etc. Another important thing to know as a future teachers is that they are develop the limbic area so what this means is that they do not have a self control to mesure the consecuences about their decitions,and uncounciusly they like to be in risk and they are trying to be accepted in a group and that makes them to do what other´s friends do. Knowing this we have to look differents strageries, methods to make them get involve in the activities, we have to put in their shoes and understand that is not that they just want to misbehave but there is something that is happening in their brain about their emotions, and doubts.







Psychosocial changes.




what the scintifics say is that is Linked to the hormonal and neurodevelopmental changes that are taking place are psychosocial and emotional changes and increasing cognitive and intellectual capacities. Over the course of the second decade, adolescents develop stronger reasoning skills, logical and moral thinking. in other words what this says is that with the increase of these changes teens become more capable of abstract thinking and making rational judgements. Also, they are more able to take other people’s perspectives into consideration and often want to do something about the social issues that they encounter in their lives.




As a future teacher I think that I have to take those details into acount and do not forget that depending on all this knowledge we have to create our lesson plans in order to have in an effective way because now we already know those circunstances that without a doubt we are goint to encounter ,in one or more time. we have to look for solutions to face it with the best way like a professionals