Teaching experiences always help us to learn new things.

Well, it was a good experience and also, the first time that I taught passive voice structures. We began the class with a warm-up about verb changed. It was nice because all of the students participated. After that, We played a game called “Calling around the world” (it was the presentation for the topic). For this game, the students and I had to choose the name of a country we liked. After, we had to memorized everybody´s country; I started calling a country. For example, I chose China; so, I had to say: China calls Nicaragua. Then, Nicaragua had to say: Nicaragua was called by China and Nicaragua had to call another country and so on. If one student did not answer when someone called him or her, I could assign a penalty or that person could be out of the game. It was so funny, but I thought that a game was not enough for presenting the topic. So, I included a little paragraph about the topic. After that, I began with the grammar explanation. I brought examples from the lesson plan and from my own. In this point, the students had a lot of questions about the topic. I explained and gave them examples of that. They were paying attention to the class. Something that I really liked from this class was that I did not have problems with talkative students. They showed a different attitude in class. That was really nice!! In the other hand, one of the observations that my tutor gave me was that I had to work more slowly with the students. I mean that I didn´t have to teach the form and the usage of a structure at the same time. First, I had to teach the form of the learning topic and then I had to teach the usage. So, one of my problems was that I mixed both and that´s not suitable. Another observation was that I had to check minutely the lesson plan because sometimes, it had mistakes.

So, from this class I learned that I don´t have to mix form and usage of a structure when I am teaching it. Also, I have to double or triple check the lesson plan. Another thing is that if I think that something in the lesson plan isn´t enough, I can change it or add something new. Well, this time I learn other new things and the next time I am going to learn more. Teaching is great to form experience…