Reflection
When reflecting about the work I did in this final and important instance
of this training course I can see how the whole experience has helped me in many
aspects of my teaching development.
I reviewed contents of the teaching course from various subjects for
planning my classes; this carried me to reflect once again on teaching theories
and approaches, and also on important material from various subjects in this
course and other sources, related to teaching and learning.
Besides this exploration with the previous knowledge I remembered from
my teaching training and experience helped me plan my lessons and teach my
classes by leading me to pay attention on features related to this age group
like their enthusiasm in using body movements in the class, the importance of
not very long lessons, their interest for songs and videos, the importance of using
varied material that can include different learning styles, and the relevance
of maintaining good rapport with the pupils, and the significance of giving an appropriate
context to my classes among others.
I also related with the institutions where I did the practicum and its
directives and personal, this leaded me to visit classes and other teachers’ practices
gaining in experience for facing unknown contexts where to teach.
Of course that there are also some aspects that I would like to improve
like correctly timing my classes according to the stipulated available time and
better concentrate in students’ feelings and emotions in order to make them all
feel good the longest time possible in my classes.
Moreover, I think that the most important pedagogical knowledge I acquired and reinforced
is to always give my classes an appropriated context. I also realized that this
is the aspect that a good English Teacher should always keep studying and
updating; since as I have already mentioned I believe that the more we engage
our students in real and motivating situations the better they remember, use
and practice new language. The tutor recommended me not to forget to
teach “language in context”, these recommendations made me give more relevance to
this aspect when planning and teaching my lessons, and once I followed her indications
I could appreciated the relevance of this pedagogical decisions.
Keeping a Teaching Journal was the way of reflecting on my teaching
practice because it gave me the possibility of reviewing step by step my practices
and to make the necessary corrections in the following. It was also another way
of showing to the tutor what happened in each class end encounter, and her
comments helped me to learn new things and strengthen some other which I knew. In the following links I store some sample documents from my teaching practices, click on each link for opening the files:
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