Group 3 - (Lesson 3)

Lesson three was taught by Yenifer Avalos, Wanda Carranza, Deyanira Castro,  Luis Oyarbide and Vanesa Rodriguez. They taught “Preposition” and vocabulary about Sport objects. I really liked all the material they used.

In the Pre stage, they presented real material like, a basket ball, a rope, a bike, a bat, etc. Some studies about language teaching have demonstrated that  real material is the better way to teach although it is kind of difficult for teacher.

Visual aids such as flashcards were proper designed, they were coloful and big enough by the sight of children. Furthermore, children enjoyed the activities and tasks performed in the lesson.

I  could notice some small details which I consider could be improved in future classes. For example, the names of the objects were pasted on the floor, I think it could be a good idea to pasted the names on the objects in order every kid could read the name of the object without any problem. Besides, in order to know if children had understood the topic of prepositions, I think it could be better if teacher picked up the flascards with the name of the objects before askig students to pointed out some of them  through commands given by teaher. For the reason that I notice that students did not encounter pretty well the prepositions so they were guided because of the object they heard instead of the preposition. This group of teachers had issues in time management as we had  too. So, we have to care time and work on it.

In addition, I liked the enthusiams of some teacher from this team. They seem confident about what they were explaining. However, nervous always attack us and we focused our sight in one specific point. I noticed  this happened in this group but I consider it is so important to make eye contact with all students in order to make them feel part of the class.  In generall, the class was good developed , teachers did well use of the space in the classroom, appropiet activities and materials.

What did I learn from this group’s participation? Eventhough, we had stablished an activity in our lesson plan and if we notice that it is not working in the class, we are able to change it at the moment we are developing the lesson,  in order students get the idea about was is being taught. I also learned that if we have enough time, we can emphasize vocabulary, pronunciation or even explain if we consider something was not well understood or explained about the topic we are teching. Inconvenients can arise while we are teaching and we have to be prepare to think in a possible solution.