My first experience...

I started my teaching practicum yesterday. I arrived a little bit early to the classroom so I could arrange the enviroment that I was going to need for the development of the activities I had planned. 

At the beginning I felt a little bit nervous as normal, but that feeling lasted until the teacher introduced myself to the class. She told them that I was going to be the teacher and that everything I said, it was going to be as if she had said it. That comment made me feel sure about what I had to do. 

I started my class with a scramble board game in which students had to make teams to compete by trying to get the words I called out from the board and by trying to spell them. The game was perfect to break the ice, even the teacher told me she liked it, but the problem was that students were competing boys against girls and the game required phisical competition. The leader of the girls fell down while trying to get one of the words. Fortunately, she did not hurt herself, and she did not feel ashamed. She continued playing and laughing as if nothing had happened. From that experience I learned that every time you would do those kind of activities which required phisical competition, it would be preferable to make mix teams and to choose leaders of the same gender to avoid similar accidents.

After that, I continue checking the homework the teacher had assigned the day before. Then I had to explain about possessive adjectives and I had learned from Didactics that we need to make a transition between activities so I took one sentence from the homework as example to introduce the grammar point. After the explanation I wanted to know if they had understood so I made an activity which I called "The mistery bag" in which they had to put one of their possessions inside. Then I model the question "Is this your pen ?" and students had to go around the classroom asking that question to their classmates who had to answer "No it isn't or Yes, it is" according to the situation. I chose this activity because is preferable to use real situation activities which are going to help students to learn something they experience almost every day instead of a simple "fill in the blanks" in which they can deduce the answers. After this activity the teacher told that my time was over which I could not believe because I thought It was still early. I was so excited teaching that I did not pay attention to the time. Then I sat down to observe the rest of the class and I felt very satisfied to see that I had make what I thought it was going to be very difficult.

After the class the teacher gave me feedback. She told about some mistakes I made in pronunciation so I could correct myself. She also congratulated me because of the activities I used. She said students enjoyed them. She even told me that one of the students told her "She is going to be a good teacher". That comment made me feel very happy because that meant that they liked the way I taught and that I am doing it well.

That was all what I did in my first they as a teacher on the university.