On my second class, I wanted to be prepare to the teeth. I entered with confidence and students noticed. Yet I committed more mistakes than the previous class. I kept an eye on everybody and specially on those who like to talk and talk and not about the class content. I was nervious at the beginning as I always am. Classroom managment was perform. I checked homework and even gave some time to those who did not bring it. We talked about and student's participation was to its highest. I can not think of a groups with more energy than this one. Momentum took place and the class went smooth, in fact, I turned out to need more time at the end of the forty five minutes.
They worked in groups for one activity and alone for the other. The activity consisted in identifying the tense of the verbs in each sentence and not only that, they needed to tell the tense. Sentences with complicated structures. As always... I had to move more than one person from where she was seating to somewhere else due to their lack of attention on the exercises.
The new words they did not know, I would write them on the wall, and for some this was very helpful. I was mot happy to make sure they were really learning. Having the control on the class is crucial as since the very moment one losses the control it is very difficult to gain it back again.
From the student’s perspective, effective classroom management involves clear communication of behavioral and academic expectations as well as a cooperative learning environment. The different activities that were developed were explained at the beginning and since they are very dynamic, they followed instructions and completed the tasks, I got a lot of participation and decided that since they were seating through most of the class time the last activity should involved movement, as some students learn better since they are kinesthetic learners. At this point, and being my second class, I could identify some students and their learning styles. It would have been great to have extra time to do more with them and involve more activities based on the different styles. But as for listening, reading, speaking and writing skills things were covered. Information was took in and showed me by completing the book exercises.
The class ended in claps and I fell content to have shared with them my teaching skills.
Graded or not graded, it is always very nice to be given the opportunity to develop a new skill.
I am looking forward for more teaching for the rest of the year.
