Teaching Practicum II

Hi my name is Pablo Carrillos I was teaching the semester at Don Bosco School especially remedial classes.

At the very beginning of the class I had 16 students and in the last class I had 5 students.

Josue Martinez struck me because he was the one who always participated in the class, he was very proactive during the class, and every assessment he got good grades. Also, he was the only one who tried to speak English only during and whenever he got doubt he asked me en English.  That particular behavior during was outstanding for because it was remedial classes and I was wondering what was he doing in remedial classes?

Regarding to the problem presented, they struggled with   the tenses usage what I did with them I taught them how to use it but when we practiced we did not make an emphasis on grammar we went   for communicative in real context, real situations. Of course making them feel comfortable in the class, they tried to do the tasks but at the end, I got my objectives for the class accomplished. Also, the moment that I first evaluated oral presentations, that was a priceless moment to me because I did not even know the students and everybody called me ¨teacher¨ that moment was very funny because after the presentations everybody was asking what the score was.

The tourism major does not have to stop learning English because English is their second language acquisition so that they need to practice every day that language or at least twice a week. Besides that, they are trying to acquire another language that is French. That is to say, they could be rusty with their second language and I believe they do not have enough time to have the spoken French expected.  In easy word, that would be my suggestion to the School of language.

I learned a lot from Teaching Practicum II because I was able to implement what I learned during the class, adopted book my own and also dealt with the different behaviors in the class was priceless for me. In addition, it was real, with real students and also, Practice rather than theory