Closing ceremony

The expected day finally arrived and we had everything prepared for the clousing ceremony. We got in the classrooom and then we went directly to Don Bosco School. My group and I had some ballons and paper for decoration so once we were in Don Bosco School we started preparing the classroom for the children. We had olso prepared some games for them.

We were waiting for the childen and finilly they arrived, we only had 3 children but we had a good time with them.

We started playing with the games and then we sang some songs and  Rocio give a little spech for the children and we give them a certificate.

 

After that we took some pictures in group and we went out the classroom to eat pizza.

Getting more knowledge

On that day we went to a presentation given by Katy Casto  from English Language Fellow.
It was a great experience, we reviewed some important aspect we have to take into account in the moment we teach.
1. Be (or get) excited about your content class: in this point Katy explained that when we prepare a class even if we do not like the topic or skill that we are teaching we need to present it in the best way with enthusiasm to the students, so they can feel our energy and enthusiasm if not students will not be enthusiastic and they will not learn the topic.
 2. Create a lesson structure that works for you and follow it consistenly: She presented 4 different lesson structures like  "Warm- up/ cool- down" in whhe teacher start the class with a dinamic related with the topic to study in the class, "objective with agenda" in this structure the teacher presents at the begining of the class all the activities that they will do during the class, "I do- we do- you do" this one as new for me but I liked it, in that structure teacher presents the topic and maybe some sentences in which teacher applys the topicthat is being taught, teacher and students do it together and then is the students turn to apply what teacher has taught.
3. Comand respect from your students: Katy mentioned 2 important aspects that were teach students how to treat you and others and create a code of conduct with your students, she also mentions that is important to gice students the correct impresion of us, because maybe we can seem young but we need to comand respet from students also in order to set the rules in the class a great idea is to make the rules with the students so everybody agrees with the rules.
4. Give students leadership opportunities and other responsabilities: In this point we discussed the different activities we can give to students like help teacher to collect or provide materials to students, also activities in groups ,like when we ask studnets to make something we can say someone is going to be the leader or the person incharge of the time, etc different activities in which they can feel important in the class and help students that are hyperactive.
5. incorporate: VAK- Visual, auditory, kinesthetic- in every lesson: in the class we will have different type of students and each of them have a different style to learn , so in that point we discussed the different activities we can develop during the class so we can include all the students and also the importance it has to take into account all the type of learner when we plan our class. We also talk about our own style to learn.
6. Plan questions based on knowledge goals: Katy explained that when we plan a lesson it is important to have our goals clear about what students will be able to do at the end of the class and have an specific objective for each activity we will develop during the class. It is important to plan our classes knowing the type of students we have and also the knowledge students already have so we can start from there.
7. Evaluate using rubrics: She explained that we can create our own rubric to evaluate them depending on the level they are and also their age. also she said it is important to let students know what you are evaluating during a presentation or during the year so they are aware in which areas they have to put their effort.
8. Collet and use data: in this point Katy explained the importance of knowing the previous knowledge students have using surveys or making tests before developing the class, also it is important tocheck for understandng during the class so we can continue just if every student have understood.
9. Take time to reflect and adjust: She explained that after every class we need to take the time to check if all the activities we prepared worked as it had planed or if something went wrong, also to determinae the reason why the activities did ot work and analyze if there is something abput the class we need to teach again maybe some students did not get it complete or had questions so we can prepared it for next class.
10. Encourage a mindset: The last point was about having a positive mindset and also encourage our students to have it.


After the presentation we went to our classroom and get into groups to prepared everything for the next class becaus the next class we have the closing ceremony with our students.