Weekly Reflection

This week my topic for reflection is based on a mistake I made with the studentsof the 1st year, of course it is not a big mistake but it is something I learnt from. The situation was that I prepared a test for the students last week on June 2th, 2010, so the next class (June 8th), I delivered the tests. What I didn’t realize at that moment was that on the day the pupils had their test some of them didn’t attend to classes, but I didn’t remember that in that moment. After the lesson finished some students came to ask me when they were going to have their test since they didn’t do it because they didn’t go to class. On that moment I told them that the test will be on the 22nd of June, they were agree and they left the classroom. After that and talking to my guide teacher I made the comment to her that I will do the test for the students that didn’t attend to it on the 22nd of June. She told me: Okay no problem that is up to yo, but I am gonna tell you only one thing: did you realize that you delivered the tests to the students before doing the test to the pupils that didn’t attend to that class? To what I answered: yes, mmmm…now I see… now I won’t be able to do the same test for the pupils that didn’t attend to class!!! So my guide teacher told me that that was one thing I must take into account at the moment of delivering papers or test to the students, if there are students that don´t go the lessons in which there are evaluations, I would just give them their grades but not their works so I would be able to use the same formats for the rest of the students. My guide teacher advised me that I must remember that for the next time, not because it must be that way but because it is better for me. She told me that now it is not a problem for me because I have enough time for preparing new tests but in the future maybe I won’t have enough time for doing it so it is something important. I was thinking about all this and of course I agree with her since that way I save time and I also can evaluate all the students in the same way. I think it was positive that this happen to me now, while I am doing my practicum, since I am still learning and improving my teaching style.