Reflections

You will find my reflections to teaching and facilitating during the Practicum of my MA TESOL. The weeks that my teaching partner and I designed the lesson plans and taught are noted with an asterisk *.

Week 1

The first lesson on icebreakers had the goal of getting every student to talk while getting to know each other...

Week 2

The interviews on Tuesday showed me that determining proficiency levels takes practice. I tried to follow the guidelines but...

Week 3*

The original plan was to fill out a proposal form for the trip. But during the activity...

Week 4

very interested in the topic of fashion, and I know my group was, too. For some reason my group seemed to finish early in all...

Week 5

I'm not sure what they were thinking but my guess would be that perhaps...

Week 6*

This activity too far too long. More than twice as long. Yuri and I tried hard to...

Week 7

a couple of times my group was disinterested because they understood the instructions and weren't engaged in the instructions. Sometimes...

Week 8

One little sister struggled to produce language. She had very long pauses before forming her response. Once she did respond...

Week 9*

Sadly, one student did not have a partner for the first activity. I'm not sure if we lost the card...

Week 10

The students weren't very clear on how to make a proposal. I think the intent of the activities were good but still too...

Week 11

I noticed that other groups only had 1 write up of the problem and noticed one group had people talking about off topic issues...

Week 12*

At the end of the Thursday class, I took liberty to use up one minute of time for the survey on the AR on instruction in order to draw attention to...

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