Team Teaching Stage

Name of the student: Deisy Perez Valderas
Name of the School: Colegio Presbiteriano David Trumbull
Date: May 4th, 2010

Task 1: Collaboration Activities

In my first collaboration activity I was asked to guide the students on a writing task. The teacher told the students they must create sentences using the simple present and simple present continuous. The activity lasted around 20 minutes and I had to go around the students seats answering their questions and doubts regarding the sentences they were creating. There were a lot of questions and almost all of them started asking me for help. Miss Erika had previously explained the use of these two tenses before they start doing the task that was assigned by her. They were very motivated creating the sentences because they found the simple present continuous tense very easy and funny, since they could describe what they were doing at that moment. All the pupils finished the task successfully and they make some comments to me like “Miss usted es seca para explicar”, “Miss usted siempre nos va a ayudar?”… comments that made me feel good and confident because their reaction towards my help was positive.
During the last lesson I was helping my guide teacher I was asked to help the students to create a dialog they must present orally to Miss Erika. I was asked to help them to correct grammar and also pronunciation, so I went through the classroom helping the students and asking them to read their dialogs to me in order to help them with the pronunciation. They create their dialogs very quickly and then they started to practice and memorize them for their oral presentation programmed for the next class.
During this professional practicum all the activities I have been asked to do have been related to check exercises or clarify doubts, I have not been asked to prepare any special material of any kind since my guide teacher do her classes based only on the American Adventures book.

Task 2: Lesson Planning

For the 1st year of high school I got the necessary information for preparing the lesson planning from the American Adventures book the students use for the English classes, the Planes y Programas para Ingles 1° medio and from the planning my guide teacher must do for the whole semester. I combined these three sources and I did my own Unit plan and lesson planning. I also asked Miss Erika how should I do the planning and she showed me her own lesson planning for me to have an idea. For the 8th grade of secondary school I used the same resources but instead of using the American Adventures book I used the Travelers. The format the school uses for planning is almost the same we use at University so; I did not have much problems on this task. When Miss Erika knew the planning format for the lesson plan was almost the same she told me to do my own planning alone and then she will check and correct them if there were something to correct. After I did all my planning I sent them to her and she congratulated me for my job she said they were very good.
The first Unit Plan and lesson plan I had to do take me a long time, around two hours each, but after I finished those, it was easier to do the next ones. Now, preparing a lesson plan take me around 30 and 40 minutes each.