Being able to work in my unidad repectora was a great opportunity to develop my personal and professional growth. In this final reflection i will write about the moments that were enjoyable and the challenging moments and my plans for the future.
First of all, it is important to mention that I found
teaching extremely enjoyable when I saw that my students were having progress. I learned many things of my students for
example they have a great capacity for learning, enormous potential for
creative thought. I also learned that they are very passionate with the things
which interested them. There were moments in my lessons where I had to provoke
student engagement with relevant and involving material. Sometimes, I had to add,
adapt or replace the materials of my students because I considered that my
students needed to be encouraged to respond about situations or texts with
their own knowledge and experiences that are according to their level with
topics they can react to.
I learned that all my students a large amount of
energy for sports, dancing, singing and intellectual competitions in different
subjects, spelling bee and chess. However, not all the students like to use
their energy in positive things they also use it in the negative way resulting
in discipline problems. Some students are very lazy and careless about grades,
homework and class work. As a teacher I wanted to know what was happening
behind the lessons and I took a moment to speak with their parents, fortunately
we had an agreement.
One important issue for me was to develop rapport with
my students and a positive and respectful relationship with my students. I asked
the students to write a letter about their opinions about the course, the
content of the coursebook, methods and working styles. For me was really useful
to do that because I was able to implement some changes. On the other hand, my
classroom observation provided me a significant help to understand what was happening
inside the classroom that I was unable to notice.
I had wonderful moments and challenging ones. Next period
I going to take Experiencia Recepcional and Practicum, so I will continue
writing posts and reflect my teaching.I learned too many things from this wonderful experience and have to thank my facilitador Daisy Giles, the school principal Ing. Juan Hamsho , the coordinator Joyce Viceizo, my students, my colleges of my unidad receptora and last but not least my peers thank you for your help, for your comments and advice.
I will conclude with these precise words ““Every story
has an ending...but in life, every ending is just a new begining...”
