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Journal #1

Journal #1

Yulisa Cardozo Romero

Date: May 3rd 2019    

Write a reflection about the classes you oriented this week (bear in mind the following aspects: what you planned, what you did, and what you would do differently if you were to teach your lessons again). Give examples and descriptions of those situations that, in your view, are relevant to your learning experience.

In this week I had classes with first graders only on Monday because Wednesday was holiday. On Monday, we continued with the same topic that was colors. It was an easy topic for them, for that reason they did very good the activities, without any problem, all of them were participating actively. In regard to my innovation plan, I have noticed that students are performing very well the first task that I gave to them. In the next week, I will give the second task to them.

With second graders, I also had classes only on Monday. That day, we started a new topic that was about numbers from 20 to 30. I presented the numbers with flashcards, then I did an exercise on the board, we counted the numbers from 1 to 30 and then I said a number and a student passed to the board and circle or pointed out the number that I mentioned before. I planned the previous activity as something that I did not know if it could work, but in fact, it did. Students participated actively, they seemed to know all the numbers very well because they wanted to continue with the numbers until 40. I could notice with the activity that two students did not know very well the numbers from 10 to 20. I will make more activities in the following classes and I will be focused on them to see their progress.

Thursday I had class with kindergarten. The language focus was positions up and down I had planned 6 activities of 10 minutes. I presented the topic using arrows, they understood it. One of the activities that I had planned was that the teacher will name a position and students will perform it, for example, I said hands up or hand down, or stand up, or sit down. When I did that activity, it was a hard time for me because this course is not well behaved and when I did it they stand up of their chairs but they did not want to sit down, they took it as a joke and I felt frustrated. Then I gave a handout to color and they calmed. The truth is that kindergarten is giving me a hard time, they always want to play, or jump or shout, or do something different from the class. I think that they haven’t the routine of classes because they didn’t have a break to go and play or if they have it, they have their break in the classroom, for that reason I think that they haven’t assimilated in what time they can play and what’s the time for play. On Friday, they arrived late to my class because they were doing an extra activity in the school and we only had 30 minutes of class in which we did a review of the topic, an activity and that was it. I had planned another two activities with handouts but they couldn’t do it in class, I gave them as homework.



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  1. AnonymousMay 22, 2019 at 7:13 PM

    I think that working with kids is incredibly nice and fulfilling because they really want to learn. "I could notice with the activity that two students did not know very well the numbers from 10 to 20." I think it was really nice how you noticed this problem here and how you focused it. Also, I think is impressive how you can manage to do six activities in one hour that is real talent there using at its max the classroom management and time management.

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