LEARNING TO BE A TEACHER MEANS GROWING UP
Learning to be a teacher for adolescents
is a significant experience. Since I was a child I thought that being a teacher
was the easiest job until I had the challenge to be a teacher. This had been
one of the hardest experience that I will never forget. Fist at all I remember important
moments were I realize that teaching was the job that I was looking for but I had
to be mature.
I
can say that I have three important moments in which learned a lot. The
first class as individual group. I remember that I was a little afraid of
that cause I had to do a review of what
my classmates had done. I did an activity in which the alphabet was pasted on
the wall and students would paste the correct pronunciation according to the
word. I modeled and asked for a
volunteer. I thought that it was difficult but some of them started to sing the
ABC song. At the end I adapted and we sung it. Second, the puzzle warm up. I
had created a puzzle in which students had to find the places on the town. Many
of them got the words very quick. Third one, when I had one class in which
students were trying to do whatever they want and I had to change my tone of
voice to control the class.
Becoming a teacher means that you
have to accept good and bad comments. When the classes started I was in a group
of 9 students. At this time, I received many good comments about my classes and
some of my classmates got some strategies from them. But when my students were
mixed with the other group, I knew that was a big challenge. The first time
that I got a class to the new group, I was afraid, I had to accept that I had
to change many things such as my way to give instructions (body language and
verbal way) and to be the authority at class. I was frustrated but the only
solution was to asking for help.
No one will change until you do it.
I had realized that to be a teacher, first I need to be mature to accept all
the comments that I will received as a future teacher. Second, I have to think
for activities that can be for visual, kinesthetic, tactile and auditory
students. And the last one but not less important, all the jobs are challenging
but just this one will help to create better people for our society
Gloria: I know during this practicum there were some unclonfortable moments for you and some of your classmates, but out of all, I am glad you learned from them and made them part of your experiences. I have told you that you have very goosd ideas and most important, the atttitude, but that is not all you need for succeeding in a lesson. Is a mixture of aspects like good and appropriate activities and materials inspired in the students along with your attitude. I could see how you struggled to improve in each of the lessons you planned and at the end the person standing infront of the students was a better version of the Teacher Gloria they met at the beginning of this course. I encourage you to keep on learning more teaching and learning strategies every day and to plan each of your lessons so carefully that when you teach everything will make sense for you and for your students. Good luck in your TP III
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