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.