https://padlet.com/dcagonzalez/pye3p9kwhkw5yl1z My experiences in classes en-us 2021-11-09 00:40:24 UTC 2026-02-02 05:55:11 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f92a.png dcagonzalez https://padlet.com/dcagonzalez/pye3p9kwhkw5yl1z/wish/2537212873 The first day of classes was Febreuary 28, 2023, and this day was a total chaos. I entered a super large classroom, with 40 students between 6th and 7th grade, which some were excited and others were indisposed to receive the class. I started with a brief personal information, with the poropose that they knew my name, the university where I study. Then I asked their names, and each one had to say two stregths and one weakness, I realize that for analyzed what the student's  needs migth be, I noticed that in my class there is a boy with speech problems because he tends to stutter. I got scared. I continued listening to the other students and at the end I did an activity in pairs which consisted of recognizing the personal information of each student. ]]> 2023-03-29 19:05:46 UTC https://padlet.com/dcagonzalez/pye3p9kwhkw5yl1z/wish/2537212873 dcagonzalez https://padlet.com/dcagonzalez/pye3p9kwhkw5yl1z/wish/2537213512 The second day of class was March 7 2023. We were informed that the student were going to be only 6th grade, they were already fever student. When I tried to start with the class, students were jumping, playing and eating, I told them it was time to put away things that were not relevant to the class and take their seats.

After this, they did not pay attention and continued with the disorder in the classroom, so I proceeded to stand in front of them, taking the authority of the classroom, I asked a question which was: Are any of you obliged or do not want to be here? (Of course to ask this question we had the approval of the coordinator). To which all the students made an astonished face, took their seas and responded in chorus, No teacher. I said them to please let the class go on. I indicate the rules of the class and then I told them that we were going to do a diagnostic test to define the level of English and thus be able to carry out the next classes with more profit. The test could not be done because all the students indicated that they did not understand, but we tried to do it together. ]]> 2023-03-29 19:06:16 UTC https://padlet.com/dcagonzalez/pye3p9kwhkw5yl1z/wish/2537213512 dcagonzalez https://padlet.com/dcagonzalez/pye3p9kwhkw5yl1z/wish/2537214116 The third class was on March 14, 2023, the topic was Description famouos people. This day I started the class with a warm up that I expected to finished in 15 min, where in groups of four people had to choose a famous character that they liked, and go to the board to draw it and presented, following the physical characteristics such as: He is tall, he is short, he has brown eyes, she has long or short hair. But I realized that I did not take control of the time, so the activity took me 40 minutes to complete. 

The presentation of the topic was intended for the students to work in pairs, which caused everyone to start talking about other things and not perform the proposed activity. When they presented themselves in front of the class to introduce their partner, they used very few vocabuary words that expected to learn. This day I realized that I had to be more demanding with them and bring more activities that could capture their attention and make their learning effective. ]]> 2023-03-29 19:06:47 UTC https://padlet.com/dcagonzalez/pye3p9kwhkw5yl1z/wish/2537214116 dcagonzalez https://padlet.com/dcagonzalez/pye3p9kwhkw5yl1z/wish/2537215744 The fourth day of class was March 21, 2023,the topic was How is your personality?. This day I arrived to the classroom, the students were already located in their chairs, I started with a greeting, I took roll call and asked them to tell me two positive things and one negative thing that had happened to them this day, I only took 5 minutes of class for this moment of the class. The next step was the warm-up. In this each student had to draw a picture of how they saw themselves or what they identified themselves with, some made a self-portrait, others with an animal and some with nature. After they did it, I asked them to write 3 descriptive adjectives of personality that identified them.

After this, we proceeded with the presentation of the topic, in this space the students responded to the question of why it is important to know the personality of a person, some responded, because so we can know what they like or dislike, because so we know what their character is like. followed by this I asked them what could be the adjectives that could describe the personality of a person to which they responded, kind, humble, ambitious, forgetful, serious, funny, friendly, talkative, quiet, sincere, outgoing, reserverd.

Once they had the list of these adjectives, they were asked what the possible sentences could be, and they went to the board to make the sentences, He is serious, My parents are humble, I am ambitious, He is forgetful. When they moved on to the other part of the class, which was the practice, the students returned to their drawings, it was indicated that they should rotate the drawing to the right, and each one of their classmates had to write a sentence describing it. ]]> 2023-03-29 19:08:06 UTC https://padlet.com/dcagonzalez/pye3p9kwhkw5yl1z/wish/2537215744 dcagonzalez https://padlet.com/dcagonzalez/pye3p9kwhkw5yl1z/wish/2563666321 This class was held on March 28, 2023, the topic was Where is the ball? To teach the prepositions of place. To warm up the students had to make a drawing in which they could draw the object they liked and paste it anywhere in the classroom, followed by the presentation of the topic, a table was placed in the center of the room with a ball, each student passed and put the ball somewhere near the table, and had to say what was the preposition that represented this, followed by a game called Simon says, where each of the students had to move according to the preposition. Finally, to evaluate what they had learned, they had to remember where the object they had drawn was and say, using the preposition, where it was located.

The weaknesses of the class are that at the moment they are instructed to participate, everyone wants to spend time doing the activity, which prevents students from really concentrating on the main activity, in this case, stretching exercises are performed so that they calm down and concentrate and can continue with the class.

The strengths of the class are that the children like to learn through movement and play, they like to use a lot of their creativity even though it is limited, trying to construct the knowledge themselves keeps them engaged in the class and allows them to have an active participation while generating individual and collaborative work.]]> 2023-04-21 21:36:27 UTC https://padlet.com/dcagonzalez/pye3p9kwhkw5yl1z/wish/2563666321 dcagonzalez https://padlet.com/dcagonzalez/pye3p9kwhkw5yl1z/wish/2563674600 Where is the park? This was the sixth class we had, and it was held on April 11, 2023, with the objective of handling prepositions while giving directions. In this case, the warm-up was a game called "find the couple", where each student had the opportunity to find the concept and its corresponding drawing. In the presentation, a map was made using the desks in the classroom, where they had to provide the place where they wanted to go and the corresponding indications. After this, pairs were made and they had to make a conversation using the vocabulary. The evaluation that was done was to present the conversation in front of the other students.

The weaknesses of the class were that the students did not find the pairs in the game, which suggested that they were distracted and were not attending to the exercise with the understanding it required. Likewise, when they were asked to make the map in the classroom, they were distracted and began to play among themselves, in this case the improvement is to give a much more precise indication.

The strength of the class was that the students understand the concept and apply the vocabulary in the proposed exercises, they inquire and ask questions to strengthen or resolve doubts among themselves or directly to the teacher.]]> 2023-04-21 21:56:23 UTC https://padlet.com/dcagonzalez/pye3p9kwhkw5yl1z/wish/2563674600 dcagonzalez https://padlet.com/dcagonzalez/pye3p9kwhkw5yl1z/wish/2563679059 The seventh class was held on April 18, the theme was "Does this bus help me get to school? To teach the means of transportation, where the warm-up was to classify the different means of transportation in water, land and air. After this the students had to use the vocabulary learned and do a crossword puzzle in groups of 4, finally the hangman game was played. In this class the students were very active and participative.

The weaknesses of the class were that the students got scared because a bug entered the classroom and they got frightened. In this case, we tried to keep calm and indicate to them that it was not necessary to encourage disorder, and control was regained. On the other hand, the students indicated that they were hungry and they took out different types of food during the class, to which I had to indicate that the break time they had to eat.

The strengths of the class are that the students carry out the activities as indicated, ask questions to resolve doubts and there is more trust between the teacher and the student, which allows communication in the classroom regarding the different stages of the class. They are no longer afraid to participate in exercises on the board.]]> 2023-04-21 22:09:45 UTC https://padlet.com/dcagonzalez/pye3p9kwhkw5yl1z/wish/2563679059 dcagonzalez https://padlet.com/dcagonzalez/pye3p9kwhkw5yl1z/wish/2589110983 This class was held on April 25, 2023, the theme was How do I feel today? In the warm up, the students were paired up and had to represent this emotion either with a facial gesture or a small play. The presentation of the theme was that each student drew an emotion and represented it through a drawing and explained why there are people who feel that emotion or that feeling. In the practice and evaluation the students went out to the playground and played frozen, where to be frozen they had to tell an emotion, to be unfrozen they had to represent the emotion and be adivanada.


In this class the strength is that the students knew what are the different emotions that can be presented depending on the situation or context.

The weakness of the class was that it gave them mine to go to the board and represent the emotions that each one had.]]> 2023-05-12 19:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/dcagonzalez/pye3p9kwhkw5yl1z/wish/2589110983 dcagonzalez https://padlet.com/dcagonzalez/pye3p9kwhkw5yl1z/wish/2589117033 This class was held on May 9, 2023, the theme was How is my body? In the warm up, the students in pairs had to prepare an exercise involving a part of the body, in order to define the different parts of the body. In the presentation of the topic, it was indicated that they should be done in groups of three people, but this group was organized by the teacher, in this case the students did not want to work as it was organized, so they proceeded to inquire and the children said they did not want to work with a child because he was dark-skinned, so they proceeded to give a reflection on racism and not to reject or despise others either by their culture, skin tone, economy. After this, the activity was carried out with satisfaction. In practice, the children made a puzzle with the parts of the body, and in the evaluation there was a game where there were 4 groups, the first two groups had to draw each one a part of the body. And the second group had to write only one part of the body per child.

The strength was that the children are very participative, they like to ask questions and are very curious because they like to learn by playing.

The weakness was the inconvenience of not working with the partner.]]> 2023-05-12 19:46:47 UTC https://padlet.com/dcagonzalez/pye3p9kwhkw5yl1z/wish/2589117033