PRACTICA PROFESIONAL I - YERALDIN GALINDO TORRES

                                                                                                               
                                                                                 

MY EXPERIENCE AS AN ENGLISH TEACHER

REFLECTION

Being sincere, when I started my process of teaching english in primary school, I had some misconceptions about all the things that teaching English to children involved, I thought that I was not going to be able to deal with those students who just keep in their minds to play  with others and misbehave as soon as they have the chance to do it. Maybe I thought that kind of things and more, due to I had not had the opportunity to live this experience with people who are starting to know what the word education means for their life. 

My pedagogical practices took place at Institucion Educativa Nacional Jose Maria Cordoba Sede El Eden, teaching in 3°, 4°-1 and 4°-2; with a population of 31 students per group. I have to say that it was a challenging but not impossible experience for me, because of the lack of materials and the environmental conditions that this school has. Anyway, every single class I tried to do my best during the development of the classes. And something that I learnt is that students are not the only ones who learn, at the contrary we as a teacher, most of the times get things from them and we keep that information not only for ourselves, but also for them in order to improve our process and the techniques we use in the classroom. 

at the moment of planning my classes, what I took into account was that at the beggining of each class I had to look for an activity in order to encourage childrens to be motivated and awake in classes, I think that this is an important factor, because we have to search for the things that are more related to the things children usually do and make them feel comfortable and active in the class. Also, I tried to bring them didactic materials in order to avoid boredom among them and  ensure the pace of my lesson is sucessful and something crucial that teachers cannot forget is the responsability we must have during all this process of teaching and the attention children deserve overall.

I did not become an expert in terms of teching, but at least today I can say that I found the way how to win new friends, how to interact with little angels without the necessity to make them change their essence but improving their human quality because of I put my two cents!. 

As a personal opinion: It is amazing preparing people for the world, bieng a teacher is a passion not an obligation.

Finally, I have to say that this experience makes  me feel stronger and to know in a depth way my weaknesses and strenghts and I learnt to overcome my shortcomings. 

Here my students are...