Group 1- (Lesson 5)

High expectations! The second round of classes started from this lesson. It is the chance to demostrate the improvements we had made from the first class we taught.

This lesson was delivered by group number one (Eunice, Bryan, Eduardo, William and Thomas). To be honest, I had high expectations from this group. I expected they showed a better effort on developing this second class. However, it was an unexpected moment. There were many details which they had had to take into account for this lesson. For example, they came late to the classroom. In my opinion, it is important to be on time for the reason that materials has to be posted and children are already in the classroom probably with good desire to learn new things. Besides, it was evident that this group was not organized enough to teach this lesson. Teachers from this group got problems with the opening/closing songs because they forgot the lyric. As well, the Warm-up stage was skept because of the time management and lack of materials.

I really wondered because even though there were only two students, the attitude and enthusiam that teachers have is fundamental. I could notice some teachers were kind of boring and forced to teach the lesson.  Hovewer, some other teachers from this group did a great job trying to catch student’s attention.
Moreover, in their previous class this group presented visual aids which were not approppiate by children. I really expected they improve them for this class. However, this time they lack of materials. It is pretty important to take into account that children like colorful, big and interesting materials such as flashcards. Through materials, children increase their interest on the lesson and in the activities they are asked to perform as well.

 

In addition, there were positive aspects from this lesson. I really liked the last two activities this group delivered. I think students enjoyed them . And  teacher- student  interaction was good. The teacher who developed these activities had a good degree of positivism which is so important when working with children.

What did I learn from this group? First of all, we have to be organized as a group of teachers. The lesson has to be organized and planned with enough time. Furthermore, the attitude, enthusiam and positivism is fundamental when teaching languages to children. A class can not lack of materials which they have to be appropiate (color and  size) for children.  To sumarize, this was not the best participation for this group, but I am sure they will work on their weaknesses in order to improve. I really hope they will perform an excellent job for their next lesson.