Teaching is such a challenge for teachers every day. However, these experiences help us to enrich our knowledge and in this way improve our language, techniques, methods, etc. During my first week of teaching practicum I lived new experiences that I never imagined. One of these experiences for example was the fact of teaching Technical English. I had no idea about who my new tutor teacher was going to be neither my group of students, but the truth is that I was surprised to know that I was going to teach only girls!! This was new for me because I had never taught to girls only, but my first experience with them was great. The tutor teacher is a great person, too. I know that the class was not perfect, but there were many things that went well during my first week at Technical English. Some things that went well on my first week were for example:
The warm up activity. The students enjoyed the warm up activity at the same time that they were practicing what they had learned the previous class.
The activities went well too because all the students involved in every single activity. This is kind of difficult, but thank God the girls participated in the activities.
Time was smething that went well during the first class. This is something that I have tried to improve during my previous clases because it is important to keep track of time in the class.
As a human I made mistakes too. Because of a confusion, I only mentioned the objective. Next time I will have to show the objective to the teacher. Something that I have to consider next time is to keep eye contact with all my students eventhough the classroom be narrow. I can mention some other mistakes I made, but I will share them next time. Being an excellent teacher is a challenge. Isn’t it?
