Second Week of Teaching

This week things were different for me. I was feeling more confident and comfortable with the process. During the week I helped the teacher with all her requests. At the beginning of each class she usually get close and say: “Today I am going to teach these and that…would you like to do it?” And I don’t lose any opportunity, of course. She has been very helpful so far, and every time I asked her to let me teach with my own activity she just says “Go ahead”. This week, I was also able to redeem myself with last week’s 3^rd grade. I brought a huge poster of a house that I hardly drew myself. The house was empty. It had just the name of each part of the house. I started the lesson by telling them what we were going to do first, then I gave them the instructions step by step; some of them even required translation. After they were finally gathered in groups, I gave them a piece of paper where they had to draw all the corresponding items inside the part of the house that I assigned to them. I was monitoring the groups during the process while the teacher was just observing and taking pictures. At the end, each group came to the front of the class, pasted the drawing, and explained to the rest of their classmates. The activity was I huge success to me because it reached its purpose, and I was finally able to manage them, however, there still were some weaknesses. My tone of voice is too soft, so I had to make a painful effort to speak lauder. Then, kids took too long gathering in groups and were very noisy in the process. The teacher gave me the tip to count until three to gain their attention. I also had to translate some of the instructions because some told me: “Teacher, no entiendo”. Finally, each group supposed to present the drawing and explained to the rest of the class, but all of them were on the board waiting for their turn to paste the draw. Anyway, the important thing is that each told me what they draw, and some of them even walk the extra mile by drawing pets and family members on the house, which were the previous topics taught. I really enjoyed teaching this time.