My first teaching practice

It was February 7^th  2017 and I was teaching my first class to advanced English II section “B”. At the beginning, I was nervous because I didn’t have idea about what way my class was going to take. As it was time to start the class, the teacher suggested me to start it with the students that were in the classroom in that moment; nevertheless, I told him that I needed more students to start the class. After at least the half of the students of the section arrived, I started the class. I can say it was nice to know how other people whom I just had shared some moments with, were going to respond to the class someone knew was about to start.

At the beginning of the class, everybody was paying attention, and I know that they liked the first activity I did which was “broken telephone”. For this activity, I decided to make two groups and even though some of them were cheating in order to pass the message, they enjoyed the game as some students were asking me to see again the proverbs they were writing on the board.

During the next activity, I felt worried because I was going to introduce the grammatical part; however, I tried to involve my students because it was necessary that they could understand the grammatical part of the topic I was teaching. After some minutes, I felt comfortable because I tried to clarify every doubt students could have at that moment. I can say that I tried to explain to them as clear and concise as I could in order to have them use the target language in the following activity.

 At the end, it was cool to have my students write and talk about a famous person because I noticed how engaged the rest of their classmates were when trying to guess who their classmates were talking about. In conclusion, I felt really nice to be there with a group of students that worked and behaved properly during my whole class.