my first experience teaching

MY FIRST EXPERIENCE TEACHING:

Well, I am in the Intermediate English II group with teacher Aida Sermeño. My   first day of teaching was Friday, February 8^th and it was a very nice experience even though I was very nervous, but I tried to give my best.  

In order to start the class I developed a warm up activity, it was a game board; thanks God all the students participated in the activity and it made me felt happy and motivate to continue with my class.

Later on, I had to explain grammar notes of the topic: comparatives and it was the first time that they studied the topic, I was very nervous, but I tried to explain and I provided many examples; also I gave them an appendix in which I include the rules to form comparatives adjectives.

After that, it was time to the practice and I provided them a sheet of paper with many exercises about the topic. The final activity was an oral practice in which they had to work in groups of 4 students, they had to discuss and describe an object and later share the ideas of the group with the others.

It has been great to teach in this group because they like to participate in the class and the group has a good knowledge about English, and some of them speak English most of the time. This is something that I like because they know and I don’t have to explain many things.

I know that I didn’t do the entire things perfect and I must improve some areas in order to change and enrich my way of teaching ; for example, I had some with the time control and I had to develop very quickly the last activity, it was a bad experience, but I will have more control of my time.

Teaching in the university is a great opportunity since you have the experience on teaching and you learn at the same time; also you have the chance to interact with people of many ages; adults and younger people who know what they want in life so that they study and give their best. I am motivate to continue teaching and I will always give my best.