Post- observation feedback "REFLECTION"

When I started the observation stage in this school I knew I would be able to do at least some activities with the students since they seemed to know enough English for their level. At the beginning when I started to teach I was afraid since I thought maybe they wouldn’t respect me since I am young. I also thought they wouldn’t cooperate with me in the activities. But as the time pasted by I realized they were good students. I started to do classes and they were pretty well, at least the students participated and paid attention to the lesson I was giving to them but once I started the lesson and gave them the instruction for it, and here it comes the critical aspect, I used to explained the activities once and that was all, so once the pupils started to do the activities they were a bit lost so they started to ask again and again: Miss… What do we have to do? And I had to repeat the instruction again and again. At the beginning I thought maybe they were not prepared to do these activities…. But then Miss Isabel and my guide teacher Miss Erika told me I had to explain the activities better, that I must give them more examples and also write them on the board in order to check the students understood the exercises. I started thinking about this piece of advice both teachers gave me and of course I took it into account for my future lessons, so now I explain the activities more times and clearly so the students don’t have much problems on doing them.

Another critical aspect toward my lessons is that I used to prepared material for the lessons and I was sure I was taking full advantage of it but the truth was that I wasn’t doing that. I just realized about this situation once Miss Isabel asked me: What would you change of your lesson? I didn’t know what to answer so she told me I should take full advantage of the material I was preparing for the students since it was a good material and it took me long time to prepare it. So now I am aware of the mistakes I was making at the moment of doing classes, and I am trying to not making them again and I have noticed my lessons have improved a lot and that makes me happy.

When the teachers referred to the mistakes I made and told me what should I do, I felt good, not ashamed or down since I know that this is my practicum and I am learning so I think it is good this things happen now during this process of my life because I am going to learn from these mistakes.