Weekly Reflection

This week I am going to make my reflection based on a fact that happened to me with 2 students from the 1st year. The situation was the following: all the pupils had to deliver a dialog created by them which will be evaluated as a written and oral task in couples. The students gave me their written dialogs, I corrected them and I gave them back to the students for them to present them orally next lesson (next week). I chose two students for delivering the dialogs, so they delivered them for me. One couple, told me (the day they had to perform their dialogs), they didn’t receive their dialog last class, so they wouldn’t be able to do their oral presentation that day because they couldn’t study. I told them that that was impossible because I corrected their dialog and one of their classmates gave it to them, that I was sure because I remembered that. They told me that I was wrong, but that they would give the dialog tomorrow after the lesson if I wanted. I told them that I was going to check at my home if their dialog was in my house, because maybe I was wrong, but that they must do anyway their oral presentation the next day. They told me that if I didn’t find their dialog they will do a new one. I accepted, but I had a strange felling. I commented this with my guide teacher and she told me I should be careful since those two students were very intelligent and tricky, so maybe the truth was that they just didn’t study for the oral presentation and they invented the whole story. Thinking about this situation later on, it was my mistake, because I should have delivered the dialogs by myself instead of choosing two students for doing it. That way I could have been completely sure I gave the dialog to them but I as I didn’t do that I had to give them the opportunity to do their presentation next class. So from now on I am going to be the one who deliver the students’ works in order to avoid this kind of situation. My guide teacher advised me the same thing. In spite of having these problems with my students I am happy because this is my practicum and I am learning a lot about the behavior of the students. So I am sure this will help me to be a better teacher.