You can learn from anyone even from your enemy

4. WHEN THINGS GO WRONG IN CLASS

There were a lot of bad things in my teaching practicum because not all was pink color. I had good moments but also I had bad ones. I mean, there were things that went wrong in classes.
I can mention a lot of them but I 'll say which ones I consider were the worst.
for example. The internal disturbance: sometimes, my pupils, as i said were very enthusiastic, they wanted to play all the time and when I had finished with the games and activities they felt bad but not for much time because they also enjoyed painting, drawing, cutting and doing other things, so there was not a lot of problem with this situation. However, the external disturbance was a big problem. When we wanted to sing, we needed to shout and to increase the volume of the music because while i was with them, the classes for the others were over and they were resting. It bothered me since I could not explain anything without shouting, and it was disgusting do that.

YOU HAVE EXTRA TIME

The class just went out of control when I was finishing with my class because they did not want to receive classes with their own teacher. They preferred my classes because I always played with them, did activities and dynamics and their own teacher was strict and did not like the rampage.
An activity took too long. In my teaching practicum i had one hour per day ( Tuesday and Thursday) and sometimes I needed to take the teacher's time ( some minutes more) for developing an activity because sometimes there were problems with my audio or with my computer, so I had to start the activity a little later. I know that children get bored so easily and they can feel frustated if they can do a task, so I tried not to carry out so difficult activities. I decided to leave it as a homework and that I will pick it up the next class. It was a tip presented on the chapter 8 of the book TEACHING ENGLISH TO CHILDREN, which was very helpful for learning how to develop better classes and activities. 

This activity was too long, so they did it as homework

I wanted they felt good with me and they shared time with me, so I tried to be as accessible as I could. And I guess it was the best solution because we as kids are very distrustful I tried to gain their confidence because at the same time they  want to meet others.

by Carla Jeannette