Last Monday

Well, I haven't written anything because the school was on holidays but now I came back, it wasn't as traumatic as I thought. Everything was as before; students were the same and Miss Leyla as well. The class was as boring as the others and the rhythm was slow and going lower; although, Miss Leyla started teaching what I like more in grammar... PASSIVE VOICE. Students will be better helped by me because I know a lot of it, at least a little bit more than students of 2nd grade. On first grade they are still learning the "Indirect Questions"  but now in past simple and I'm asked a lot about its structure; I try to do my best and I'll improve as much as I can to help them AMAP (As Much As Posible).

Not Bad

It was a normal day. The difference was on my participation during the develop of the class. In every class was the assistant of the teacher but only answering questions, doubts and of course, the everyday job of an English teacher... TRANSLATING UNKNOWN WORDS. It was a very busy day, I had to move around many times without having time to get sit for a while. I could fell comfortable because students from any grade are getting used to ask me anything and they can relay on me whether it is a matter of translation or an explanation of the instructions they couldn't understand, of course I don't give the translation immediately, actually I try them to have an idea of the instruction having care they are able to infer the idea of what they have to do or the word they need. Well, I feel happy because they begun trusting on my capacity of explaining anything they need; my final propose  is them to rely on my capacity of hearing they needs and I could be able to understand their family and social situation to have a diagnosis of why it is to difficult to pay attention in class. I think it's a long road to run but no impossible to get.
Respecting to the realization of the class; it was as normal, Miss Leyla just gives an brief explanation of the contents and then a quite long group of exercises to do, there is where I enter to help not to complicate Miss Leyla. That's all.

say NO to bullying or it will happen

That was a really quite rather good day

As usual, I got on time (today earlier and relaxed than before) but I noticed that Mr Castro wasn't there so I decided to take the group alone to see what may happen. The guys conformed as expected and the Students Congress ran normally, my opinion was heard and they attended everything I suggested for future activities. There wasn't any sort of disruption, or unless one which could bother me, and they could get a correct organisation. Today I felt as a teacher in front of them and they treated me as their teacher. that was rather comfortable.

That's a rather good song.

Last Monday - 1st A _ 2nd A _ 1st D

Actually, it wasn't a day for learning some. Miss Leyla just gave an activity for each class about "GOSSIPING  YOUR CLASSMATES" where students had to apply past continuous and past simple in 2 sentences per classmates, I mean around 80 sentences per each single students, of course they didn't give on time and it will be checked next class, it was for every single grade. Meanwhile I walked around helping students with the translation and word order and sentence structure, but nothing else, and Miss Leyla just checked some copybooks' last homework  to put a mark on her notes. It is becoming an actual problem because I don't really see any advance on the students and the classes are just about doing workshops and long activities where teacher gets absent from "teaching".

Last Friday- Students Congress 3rd B

Well, I think that a reason not to write on this blog is that I haven't had any interesting thing to say...
My last Friday practical class was just doing nothing because since I got school, and teacher and I arrived the classroom nothing happened, I mean, teacher was talking to some students a bit of personal things (of both, teacher an students) an the rest talking to their groups without making the respectively STUDENTS CONGRESS until they said to teacher for let them going out early due to a ride to "Fantasilandia" they won this morning. nothing happened and I got bored during the whole class.

A BORING DAY

Although I got up quite late, running through the streets of Lampa, I could arrive 2 exactly minutes before time... that's good. I was rather sleepy today but I didn't feel it till the miss started her class with a guide and she spent most of the class, not to say the whole class, doing it. so I didn't have many things to score on my notebook and my "field notes" are not so much.
The same was replied on the third class due to it is the same grade (1st of high school), at the second class, it was a little bit more interesting because I had more moving going around the classroom in order to help student with the translation of a tutorial of the "perfect machine" they are imaging and describing bla bla bla bla, so I had to go around the room answering question of simple words as the word "enchufar" in spanish and even the article "EL" which was unknown for some of them. The problem was that I was absolutely tired and I didn't want more war, I felt like going to sleep home but my day was just starting.

What a DISSASTER.- 3rd B Humanists

It was a complicated day today.

Teacher got late and I had to control a group that not only watches me as one of them because of my age, but also because they have never seen me before, so they didn't actually know what I was doing there nor who I was and what's more... they didn't know the authority I have on the group, the same that Mr Carlos Castro had already given me when I was in my last practical or when I was his student long time ago. But that's OK, I mean, they are just knowing me and I haven't assimilated myself the actual fact that I am a TEACHER or a future one.
Finally the Course Congress was a mess and I could just control them for some seconds and then... all again. argues, bad faces and my useless tries to keep the order. I think next time it will be better because everytime I went, I will have the perseption of going to keep them quiet, or the best option to follow, keep them entertained and interested on their business and not on their conflicts keeping everytime the respect.
I'll be on charge on having everything in orden.

My first day

Woooooooooow, today was my first and I felt quite comfortable in most of the groups just for one reason...



...The school was well known by me, the teachers are already known since I was a teenager and the students have had practical classes with me, unless 2 to 3 of those I have now.

I just got to the class earlier as usual to say hello to "my kids" of 1st grade on high school, and they reacted as old friends of mine.

Mrs Leyla wasn't as healthly and full of life as other times, she could be a little bit sick.

people of 2nd year wasn't as friendly as 1st grade but I didn't feel strange or a foreing person of the group, besides some people came close to me for asking some doubts about the activities to be done on class.

the activity was about creating a machine and describing functions and instructions of use.
as it was in pairs everyone joined without problem excepting one who seemed to have problems of disrupting and society partnership, the fact is that no other classmate wanted to make the job with him so I felt sad and offered my self to help him and he worked well, it feels quite comfortable when a student learns from your teaching way.

On the last class we had a test and I got bored an I just waited the time to go