The reflective cycle iannaci corrected
- 1. Subject:PrácticaDocente ll Tutor: AureliaVelázquez Student:MarielaGiselaIannaci The Reflective Cycle. CONCRETE EXPERIENCE – What did I do? To begin with, the main aim of this experience was to teach English as a foreign language in Primary level. To do this, I made observations, provided assistantships and finally gave seven classes so as to complete my practicum. Throughout my practicum, I learnt that lessons take a long time to plan. There are many aspects that I have to consider before planning my lessons. For example, I learnt that I have to bear in mind essential aspects such as students´ interests and appropriate contexts and contents. REFLECTIVE OBSERVATION – How did I do it? While doing my practicum, I found out that students loved doing activities related to famous people. Consequently, I became aware that planning meaningful and enjoyable activities are vital to help students learn English in a better way. For this reason, I decided to plan activities based on what students liked in all the lessons. During my practicums, I often had to resort to L1 to explain the activities because I felt that often, students were not able to understand me. However, I became aware of my mistake when I considered the teacher´s feedback in which she told me that I had to avoid using Spanish. For this reason, I strongly believe that it is one of the weaknesses I have to overcome in my teaching practice. ABSTRACT CONCEPTUALIZATION – What can I do differently? and ACTIVE EXPERIMENTATION – What plan should I implement? Taking account what I have mentioned before, I know that I have to make changes to improve my teaching in the future. For instance, I should expose students to as much English as possible. Firstly, I should speak English from the start to help students become familiar with the foreign language. Secondly, I should provide students with the necessary support, such as visual aids, gestures, facial signs and sounds to help them understand English in a better way. Thirdly, I should encourage them to use the target language in every lesson. Since students always experience anxiety, fear or shame when speaking
- 2. Subject:PrácticaDocente ll Tutor: AureliaVelázquez Student:MarielaGiselaIannaci English, I should use more fun activities and games to help them increase their confidence in the use of the target language. To conclude, I feel certain that my practicum experience has enriched my teaching practice greatly. I know that I had some drawbacks during my teaching experience, but I believe that mistakes are part of my process to become the outstanding English teacher I want to be. I will always try to overcome my mistakes and avoid repeating them in the future. In my opinion, it was an amazing experience which has taught me a lot. Not only did students learn English from my teaching, but I also learnt to teach them in a meaningful and enjoyable way.