Third class of the period!!! March 24th, 2011.

Hey people once again I´m here to share with you my teaching experiences. The first thing I want to do this time is to thank my classmates for making such a great work with the lesson plan of this unit. It was so useful and helped me a lot by the time of preparing my class.  

Let me tell you that today I had an excellent class because I could feel that my students enjoy my class. I started with a warm-up activity that was perfect to introduce the topic I was going to teach: “Technology and Gadgets.” To perform this activity, students were running and walking around the classroom, and by the time I touched one of them s/he had 10 seconds to say the name of an innovating gadget many people use nowadays; for example: Cell phones, computers, etc.  I guess this was one of the parts I liked the most because I could introduce the topic in a way they had fun. Students were willing to participate, and at the end they did not feel bored at all. The warm-up activity took 10 minutes of my class, but it helped me to get my students attention.

For the next activity I grouped my students into four groups, and I provided each group with a piece of paper containing specific information about a gadget that was really innovating. The purpose of this was to make them think about the technological advances of these modern times and share ideas with the whole class. Students did an excellent job, and when they finish discussing I asked them to make a circle with the desks. We made a round-table discussion about how technology has developed and improved humans´ lives. This part was meaningful because all students were willing to participate because it is a topic really interesting for them.

When I finished with the round-table discussion, I knew it was time for doing something different in order to make them feel pleasant. I divided the class into two groups and I asked them to choose a representative for each group, and for the rest of the people in the groups I provided one dice. For this activity the representatives had to draw the gadgets on the board, and the rest of the people had to guess the name of it as quickly as possible, but the group which guessed first did not get a point as usually; instead they had the opportunity of rolling the dice and get the points randomly. My tutor told me that she liked the way I decided to assign the points because in that way students had no the chance to complain as it was decided by fate.

The last thing I did in my class was to ask students to work in pairs, and to design a gadget they thought would make our lives easier. At the end they pretended to be employees form T.V Offer, and they tried to sell their inventions to the rest of the people. It was interesting to see how creative students are.

Today I got up and suddenly I knew this day would be meaningful for my life in many ways. Today I felt proud of myself because as I said before I could notice that I´m improving day after day. I will be giving my best every time I can, and I hope everything continues just right.

Well people thank you very much for reading this… Hope you liked it!!! SEE YA…