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Audio segment
I chose this audio segment from the presentation students prepared for their final mark because it meant a lot for me during the practicum period.
Ezequiel is one of those students who I was told has some behaviour issues. He is kind of violent and I was also told that he is always reluctan to participate in class. Although he was absent some of the classes, I observed that he really tried to be active during the lessons. From the very beginning I told all the group that I was studying and that I was going to need their help and this guy made an effort. Of course I thanked him for his enthusiasm and for this final work, although he wasn´t feeling like doing it, he did and let me record it:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1wKkRvcKak28xumiv6bQZ16itrtZWnkts

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Metaphor
I have understood that this lesson on Identity, Diversity and Discrimination shows how human beings are all important and necessary tools in a huge box which help us go thorugh our job that is "living". We all have different skills, abilities, personalities, appearance, etc, but we are all useful and valuable. We could even live better if, instead of focusing negatively on our differences, we saw all the things that we have in common and, eventually, used those differences to work cooperatively and to complement each other.

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PHOTO
During this lesson students were asked to make a presentation on the video as to get a final mark for the term. The idea was to tal about the main character of the video, choose one of the characters and describe him/her and finally to share a reflection on the quotation I had given them the previous class.
I notices students were very commited to the Presentation as they texted me during the week to ask me if they were doing well. That made me feel I was being useful again and approachable. I really wanted teenagers to feel they could count on me. This was one of the presentations:

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Quotation
I think the quotation below represents our last lessons and, actually, it is mentioned in the video we are working on. I gave students this image as a bookmark and I think it was a really good idea to reflect on it. This thought made us the right context and atmosphere for our self-reflection and it was also motivating for them as they had told me before that English was a hard subject for them. So, the idea of working together during my practicum period was to overcome any difficulty they may have and succeed but each one focusing on their own strengths and taking advantage of them. They did a great "insight job"

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What do you find useful of these lessons that will help you plan the next one?
These two lessons were focused on Grammar structures and a mixture of them. I think that revising structures during the Warm-Up stage is useful as students refresh what they have been learning. However, Aurelia´s comments are also useful as I should include more practice and training on the new topics especially if they are about to produce a composition for example which might be quite hard for them due to the level.

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Choose a moment that was important for you and for the students. Describe it and say why it was important.
I strongly believe that this lesson was the best and most enriching of all. It was based on the short video "The Butterfly Circus" which students had already watched and the idea was to work on it in our subject too.
One of the activities I designed for self-reflection was to write positive and negative aspects of our personalities and abilities or skills. I started talking very hostly about mine. Actually, we ended up sharing our feelings about how we see each other and even about discrimination.
One of the students called Milagros wrote the sheet of paper I am attaching and when I asked her why she felt she was bad at socializing she started telling me so openly about her feelings of inferiority and how she panics when she is in open spaces. That situation encouraged all the other students to be open and sincere and we had a very deep conversation on self-perception.
I feel that moment was very important and meaningful for them, because they felt comfortable to express themselves freely and about their deepest feelings and fears and also it was important for me because I felt useful and happy to be in a position to help them giving them my own experiences. At that moment I thought I was just in the right place.

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What teaching strategies did you use? Which ones were effective? Why/Why not?
First of all, I tried to include Cooperative learning as I usually do. I have experienced that this is one of the most useful strategies, especially when we have the advantage of working with a small group.
I proposed a game in which students had to ask me questions using the grammar structures we had learnt in the previous lessons. The idea was to guess which destination I was thinking of going on holidays. They would talk to each other and discuss the questions. I also observed that they even corrected their mates if they were making a grammar mistake. So I think the activity was pretty enriching and the strategy effective indeed.
How did the students react to your teaching, to the activities and the materials? How did they react to the lesson?

I believe this lesson was very fruitful because students looked really engaged on the activities. They enjoyed the "guessing game" very much as it was very satisfying to see how students were kind of "risky" and included in the questions different structures and not only the ones we were working on. They were applying their previous knowledge in a new context and that is a very positive result. They were very active during the whole lesson, not only during the game but also when they had to design their own Holiday Plans.

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What aspects of the lesson do you consider successful?
Bearing in mind what had happened in Lesson 1 as regards the ammount of Vocabulary presented, this time I decided to focus on less items but work on them more deeply and use them in different situations. This was a good decision because I noticed students could recall those few items with the help of pictures and they could use them throughout the lessons on the "HOLIDAY" topic. That showed that they were able to acquire those words and use them to talk about their own plans.

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What aspects of the lesson require change / improvement?
In this lesson students had to work on a lot of Vocabulary about Holidays and Free Time activites. Although I could present some of the new words at the beginning of the lesson and I could help them with the meaning of those words as a presentation, the Unit included a huge list of activities which I didn´t introduce in the first stages. I think that I should have considered another way to work on those new items previously so as to make activities 2 and 3 clearer.