Week - 3 My 2nd class observation

It is a big achieve from a teacher.

The last Friday, october6th Grissel's group started the class with the vocabulary skill and the topic was Present Perfect. In spite of all the things that teacher Giselle and our other classmates said  about the group of students from room 2 the control of the class, it was good because Grissel open with a good attitude the rules of the class and it was important because as a future teachers we need to be prepare with a new strategies to control students for that reason this group divided the class in two groups and offered a box with a candies and another things to the group that behave well during the class.

Warm up ( memory game)

My classmate Esmeralda writes on the board some words and asked to the students that they need to memorize. Then, she erased the words from the board and they wrote in a page the words that the remember. She checked the words

Presentation (Flashcards)

Esmeralda showed to students the new vocabulary that was some flashcards with pictures and sentences in present perfect. Students repeated with Esmeralda. Then, she did another memory game in which she remove a flashcard from the wall and Students guess which flashcard was missing.

It was a helpful activity to noticed if students were pay attention or not, however, they guessing fast.

Practice (pieces of paper )

Grissel did the practice part in which she gave to the students some pieces of paper per group and asked them that they need to organize the sentences also she asked them sat down on the floor to made the activity, and she checked them. To review the verbs she made a game in which she passed one by one in front of their groups and she pasted  them on their head a verb and the others classmates gave some clues to the student that was in front of  them.

Production (worksheet)

Ronny gave them a page in which students were going to checked the things that they did and then students described to other classmate which things they did.

Wrap up(Bingo game)

He gave them a piece of paper with some verbs in this game students did a X in the verbs that Ronny asked them.

What could be improved?

I observed that when students started talking a little bit my classmates from this group asked them that  they were not making noise and it is good, but not all the time because the kids could be think that the teacher are angry. In spite of Ronny improve their voice the interaction from him to students was not relevant and it is one thing that all the teachers need to take into account.

Isela's group did the 2nd class they taught the grammar skill.

I recognized that teach grammar to children is a big challenge. According to brown, "children does not care about grammar structures"(110) because they are kids and they dont focus on grammatically structures, for that reason it is not necesary asked them the structure of the present prefect or this is the present perfect, but we can give them some clues to they know for which things they can use for example the experiences that the live with their parents or the places where they have been.

Warm up (mimic game) 

Isabel started with a mimic game in which she made some actions and students guessed which verbs she was describing, it was good to see how students answered.

Presentation (poster with the grammar structure)

She started to wrote them some verbs in present and explain them how the verbs be in past participle it was difficult for her because the grammar of present perfect is hard to understand, then she showed them a poster with some sentences in present perfect and they repeated, but unfortunately students did not understand very well sometimes happen in grammar classes.

Practice (pieces of paper)

Isela tried to clarify some doubts from the students. She asked them that they need to do some sentences in present perfect, but they did not how to did for that reason she explain them the auxliaries from P.P. Then, she asked them sat down on the floor and gave them some pieces of paper  with which they were made a sentences. Fortunately, they did it, but they felt bored and started to lie down on the floor. It was a little frustrated for Isela because she asked them returned to your places,but they did want to do.

Production (little flashcards)

Nataly gave them some pieces of paper with pictures and asked them that they  need to make a sentence in present perfect according to the picture that they had, but students did not understood. Fortunately, she noticed and help them. Students passed in from and asked to the others their sentences.

Wrap up (ula ula)

Students stood up and Nataly gaven them a "ula ula" with which they passed around their body and the student that lost the game were going to said a sentence with P.P.

What could be improved?

I noticed that Isabel felt confused with the grammar, but she was not give up and continue also she felt a little bit nervous because the teacher entered to the classroom when she started to explain them the verbs remember that we need to be ready all the time, but the group did a good job in spite of the topic that was difficult to explain.

To conclude, the two groups did a good job, but they need to rotate the stages for example the  people from the  first group develop the same stages from the last class, and it is important that all of them develop the differents stages from the lesson because it is the only oportunity that they had to teach.

Besides, in the second group just Isela and Isabel did diferents stages and Nataly did the same from the last time. Moreover, i understand and i admire to my classmates because in spite of the time that they had to make the materials for the class they did it nice and i hope to do a good job with the students from this classroom.