Third DAPA Last Period

Describe  On May 11th, 2016 I taught my last class to the students of Intermediate English II. This time I had the opportunity to present the topic Inventions. I took advantage of the topic and I prepared speaking activities which are the ones that I like the most because in that way students practice and use the language orally. After the warm up I asked my students to form what teachers call an onion ring. There, the students were asked to talk about their favorite, important, and useful invention. Moreover, students were engaged talking to their partner. Then, I gave them a reading which I decided to read it with students´ participation. We checked new words and pronunciation. The last activity was a group work. Students worked in groups of 4 in order to make a chart. They needed to choose an invention to write a short description and how it has changed the world. Furthermore, they had to present their chart and explain it. It was good to see every group presenting their chart and explain it. I think it was a participative and nice class.
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Speaking activities are the ones that help students to practice the language orally in order to improve their speaking proficiency which is an important skill to be developed. That is why I prepare activities for students to speak.	Based on what I already know, teachers must be sure about the input that is going to be explained. Teachers do not have to invent about something they do not know.	Next time I will prepare speaking activities according to the topic for my students to increase their speaking proficiency.
I had students interacting with different classmates to perform the activities. These activities help to engage students by speaking and it is a good way to avoid students getting distracted doing other things.	According to what I have learned, interactions in the group is helpful for the students to develop their social skill interaction. Every student need to interact using the target language which is something that help students to feel confident when using the language.	Next time I will try to include interactive activities to help students to develop their social skill.
I asked my students to work in groups to make a chart and explain it in front of the class. Each group made the chart and explain it very good.	Based on what I know, group work is a good way to hinder their social interaction, leadership, and discussion.	In future lessons I will try to adequate group activities to have my students improving different social skills.

Second DAPA Last period

Describe  On May 4th, 2016 was my second class with Intermediate English II. The topic that I was going to teach was adjective clauses using Whom, Whose, Where, and Which. In my case I needed to review the use of whom and whose because there were some things that were unclear for me since it was a topic that I had studied some years ago. This topic was new for the students, so I had to explain the grammar part with details. I prepare the explanation going to adjectives clauses at the time. Since Whom and Whose were kind of complicated I decided to explain them together. I started to explain first Whom with examples but I notice that for my students was difficult to understand. So I asked for volunteers to come to the front and write a sentence. I had 3 of them writing correct sentences so I felt satisfied because they were catching the idea. I did the same when explaining the use of Whose because I also notice their confused faces.Then I gave them a practice for they to use whom and whose which they did very well. The matter was that I took to much time explaining both adjective clauses because asking for volunteers was not in my plans. After the practice, I explained the use of which and where. These adjectives were pretty easy to understand for my students. After the explanation I gave them a practice. At the end of the class I could not do the final practice which was to fill in the blanks in the conversation using the four adjectives clauses because I took to much time explaining whom and whose.
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I needed to review the use of some adjectives clauses because since it was a topic that I have studied long time ago I did not have a clear perspective about the use.	Based on what I already know, teachers must be sure about the input that is going to be explained. Teachers do not have to invent about something they do not know.	Next time I will take my time to investigate about a certain topic that is not clear for me in order to give my students a veridic input.
I took too much time in the grammar part because I was not sure if my students were catching the explanation. So I decided to ask for volunteers to write examples on the board which was not in my plans to be done.	According to what I have learned, grammar part is important but sometimes teachers must give students time to internalize the new input. Moreover, the practice will clarify their doubts.	Next time I will explain the grammar part and prepare more than one practice for my students to get the idea easily and faster. Also, I will include in my plans asking for volunteers.
Asking for volunteers helped me to elicit if the students were catching the input I was explaining	Based on what I know, eliciting is a technique to see how much the students know about a specific topic or how much students know about something.	In future lessons I will care about eliciting in order to notice about my students knowledge and also I will have my students participating in the grammar part for them to internalize the learning.

First DAPA Last Period

Describe  April 29th, today I taught my first class to the students from Intermediate English II. The topic that I present was the adjectives clauses using WHO and THAT. I started with a warm up related with the topic and the procedure was great. Then I developed activities in which the students were most of the time interacting. I could see that they enjoyed interactive activities because they like to talk a lot. However, I notice some students do not like to stand up and I think it is because they feel kind of laziness in the early morning because the class is at 6:45. It mostly happens in the warm up. The activity that I enjoyed the most was Who am I? the procedure was the following. I pasted some nouns in their backs. The person who received the noun had to ask to the rest of the students Who am I? and the rest must describe the object, food, or person with the commands that were: You are a object that.. You a are a person who... or You are something that... It was nice to see all of them explaining and trying to guess the noun.
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I notice their lazy face when I asked them to stand up for the warm up. It seemed that they were forced to leave their sits for a moment.	Based on what I already know, warm ups help students to activate their body and to have a dynamic time before getting the input.	Next time I will implement kinesthetic warm ups or activities that helps students to activate their body because most of them get up early in the morning, that means they are still kind of sleepy.
Most of my activities were interactive. I decided to implement those activities because the topic allow me to use them, and because I know some students are shy when interacting with the teacher and they prefer to interact with their classmate. So, it is a good way to have those students using the language.	According to what I have learned, Interactive activities allow shy students to participate because they avoid feeling afraid of making mistakes in front of the entire class. Also it is a good way to keep students focus in the learning because they do not get distracted easily but talking with their classmates about a certain topic using the target language.	Next time I will try to include as much interactive activities as I can because is the only way that students use the language orally. I know some of them are shy and teachers must create opportunities for those students to practice orally.
In this lesson I could see my students with a good level of engagement and I think it was because of the activities. They were participating, laughing, talking in every activity.	Based on what I know, engagement is an important factor for students to internalize the learning.	In future lessons I will care about my students´ engagement because is the key point to have a significative lesson.

Third Hot Reflection 2nd Period

Describe  On April the 7th, I gave my last class to Basic English students.  I had few students when I started the warm-up, some students were joining the class while the the activity was being held; so, I gave a quick explanation about the activity we were doing. I told them to think that they were not in class but in their favorite place. Students had to write their favorite place and activities they usually do in that place. While I was monitoring, I saw some students thinking by themselves and some others asking each other what was their favorite place.. The topic that I was going to teach was Present Progressive and Simple Present. I present a reading for them to identify the use of each tense. Then I gave them some rules on how to add the "S" or the "ES" to the verbs in the third person singular in a sheet of paper for they to keep them and review them; moreover, I gave a quick explanation. At the end I had time for them to practice with a Find Someone Who activity. This activity helped them to use the grammar structure explained because they had to look for people who perform activities like playing soccer, do the housework, etc. However, I had problems when monitoring because they are too many students. Besides that, I consider that my class was meaningful.
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I prepared a warm-up with the intention to challenge students` thinking, at the same time to use the grammar structure I was going to explain.	Based on what I already know, It is good for students too challenge their thinking. Moreover, it is important to use warm-ups to introduce the new topic or grammar.	Next time I will try to prepare the warm-up to challenge students` thinking because it is important for them to try to think out of the box.
I gave my students extra material about the rules on how to add the "S" and "ES" to the verbs in third person singular. Doing this helped me because I had them focus on the material when giving the explanation. Also, they can review the material later at home.	According to what I have learned, extra material is helpful for students to review or study for exams. Also, is helful for students who do not copy in class and for the teacher to save time.	In the future, I will try to prepare extra material for me to save time and for students to have a resource to review or study.
In this lesson I had problems when monitoring when developing the last activity because of the number of students. They are too many, so, the classroom was full of students that made monitoring to be diffcult.	Based on what I have learned, teachers must monitor in every activity in order to enourage students to focus in the activity. Teachers must find the way to monitor every space of the classroom where students perform activities.	In future lessons I will try to find a good way to monitor the majority of my students in order to involve them in the activity.

Second Hot Reflection 2nd Period

Describe  March 31st, this was my second class teaching to the Basic English students from the mayor. In this class I felt more confident because I had shared a good time with them in the first class. The topic that I Taught was a review about present continuous and introducing the modal verbs CAN and HAVE TO. The warm up I used was about telling and performing and ability of them. For example, to move the ears, to move a bone, etc. We had fun with that activity because students performed interesting abilities. After that, I did a brainstorming about how to be in shape; students came up with activities that people can do and also with some important and necessary factors for being in shape. Then, I present the modal verbs in a dialogue using the present continuous tense. It was good to see they were practicing the dialogue with a partner. I had some volunteers performing the dialogue in front of the class. I correct some pronunciation errors. I did not write the words on the board for they to pronounce them well and that is something I must do every time I am going to correct. At the end I asked them to work in groups of 4 they had to make a chart about tips how to be in shape to live longer. They needed to write obligations and possible activities to be healthy. I like this activity because they were sharing their ideas to come up with helpful tips. Finally they had the opportunity to choose two people from each group to explain the tips. It was a nice class because they participated a lot.
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I prepared activities which I could control but at the same time they were activities that students need to be responsible of their development and participation.	Based on what I already know, basic students do not have much vocabulary to performed to much free activities, we need to adapt free activities we can control their performance.	Next time I will try to use activities for them to be active and involved in the learning. I will avoid activities students get bored or activities they are use to do.
I did not correct their errors in a right way. I should have written the words on the board and make them repeat. I just had them repeating the words I was mentioning.	According to what I have learned, teachers must write the words students mispronounce for they to have the connection of the spelling and pronunciation.	Next time I will not forget to write the words on the board for they to have a better perspective of the spelling and pronunciation.
In this lesson I did a brainstorming. I could see that all students were sharing their ideas which were very accurate.	Based on what I know, brainstorming is a good way to challenge their thinking. At the same way it is a very good way to ask for their participation.	In future lessons I will try to incorporate activities similar to this in order to challenge their thinking and have students thinking out of the box.

Hot Reflection 1 Second Period

Teaching in the Mayor 

Describe à March 18th, this was my first class of the second period. I felt confident because I had prepared my class according to the interests and needs of my students. At the same time I was worried because last period I taught in English Access program and people say that is pretty different the attitude of those students than the attitude of the students from the mayor. However, I noticed that they also like to participate; but, they need to be encouraged a little bit more because they seem to be afraid of speaking and make mistakes. An important factor that I worried about was the sitting arrangement because it is a large group and they get distracted very easy. I arranged the desks in an "U" shape; so that I could control and have eye contact with the entire group. I use the warm-up to practice the ING form of the verbs, because the topic was Present Continuous. Then I explained some rules about how to add the ING form to the verbs. I used a conversation for they to fill it and to practice with a partner. I showed a video and as a last activity I use a mimic. I liked the last activity because the students enjoyed it. All of them were engaged participating, and even my tutor was trying to help and guessing the action. At the end I felt pleased because my students participated in every activity and I am sure they get a significant learning.
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I prepared my agenda with activities which they can practice not only writing, listening, and reading, but also the speaking skill.	Based on what I already know, there are four macro skill, the four are very important but speaking is more challenging for students, so teachers must encourage them to produce the language orally.	Next time I will continue encouraging my students to use the target language orally with interesting activities for they to interact with their classmates.
I use a sitting arrangement in which I could have the adequate space to monitor and to control the attention of my students.	According to what I have learned, sitting arrangement is very important factor to consider, mostly when teachers have a large group. It is an strategy to control a large group.	I will continue using an adequate sitting arrangement according to the number of students in the class; so that, it will be easy to control students engagement.
In this lesson I show a video. It helped me because students enjoyed watching videos. Moreover, they were open to participate express their ideas about the video.	Based on what I know, using audio visual Aids is very helpful because students like to be in touch with technology and is a way to catch their attention.	In future lessons I will try to adapt more activities in which I can use Audio Visual Aids in order to catch students attention.
In the grammar explanation, they were able to identify the different forms of the verbs to add the ING form and the importance of the verb to be. Then, I used some practice for them to put into practice the input.	I know that the grammar part has to be followed by activities for students to practice the explanation; in that way, students will internalize the new knowledge.	Next class I will try to use different activities in which students will have the opportunity to use the target language using different skills. Furthermore, they will get significant input.