Final Reflection

Before the class I didn’t want to face the reality of being a teacher, I wanted to be a translator or interpreter, but a teacher, not sub estimating the profession, but I’m still thinking that is one of the hardest professions ever.

The first things that came to my mind were, what am I going to teach them, how, I’m not prepared, what if it is like a prison, what if one student hates you and make a revolution against you. All those thoughts were inside my mind when before the Metodología y Didáctica class. I’ve seen too much theory, but what for? I need it practical, and how.

There is a real deal, I have to make a practice to get my major, and there is only one way, being a teacher. Actually, I’m not afraid of it anymore, I’m just lazy because Magda, once that I asked her, she told me I was given the Cafam School. That’s other thing... big classes! I know at Cafam the classrooms have capacity for 30 students more or less. I know I do not like to Magda, I would like to be in another school, but I know she will never change her mind, and if it is for getting low grades in the career, I understand… a better school for better relations, better expectative of future, I know the big classes, I was in one of those, and I learned nothing!

But what is the important thing here, that after this course, now I’m prepare to face any situation, any class, I’ll put all my effort, no theory can teach that, Harold did it great!

Thank you again! 

I’ll give my classes with the method I like the most, obviously respecting what must be done and the patterns the school gives me, doesn0t matter, what is important is that I’m ready.

Planning the Silent Way

As it is said in our country and culture, the lazy has to work twice. Maria Eliza and I picked the silent way because we thought it would be easy, yes because we just said, ok silent, it will be like giving them a tip and they do all the work, so we do not do anything. It resulted that it wasn’t like that. I t was worst, activities that only the devil would understand, I watched the videos of the method on youtube and I just didn’t know how to include ‘em and prepare ’em to my class. I saw people repeating and repeating and doing nothing, in small groups, it is very hard! I just gave up and thought of one activity, the first that came out to my mind. I did the color chart, and created one, the story telling… well, for that day I expected more from the creativity of my partners, the just let out little phrases that didn’t even made sense to the story building. Harold told us to take out a sheet of paper and write how was it, that was the worst and only day that I felt bad in this class. 

My Multiple Intelligences

I just have looked at them as they appear in the chart, and between ‘em I couldn’t find eating, sleeping and watching TV, guess I’m not intelligent… but looking very deep, yes there’s something, there’s always intelligence for everything, no matter what you do. Me, for example, in these last days I found I’m a pettifogging lawyer, and to be called lawyer is to me an honor, my whole family is filled with them, and they’re very smart, they haven’t lost a battle in decades, it seems that I really belong to the linage. Well I also know to draw, play music and fail the French class. The challenge for me forwardly is to implement in my future classes a way to discover the pettifogging lawyers, musicians or artists, I want to be the one who discovered that on my students… as I told in the Multiple Intelligences analysis.

What's Stupid or ridiculous?

I really, really don’t like activities where one must move or walk, sing, mimics, touch other people, face to face activities; one example.. Alejandra’s activity, I just remember… skyyyy---diving! Damn… it must work out very well ‘cause I remember every single stupid thing she did that day. I understand you must learn from those activities, yes, to plan your future classes and is for sure to first leveled groups. I don’t say it is stupid, I just do not want to watch me doing such things, they’re just no appropriate or necessary to learn a language.. well, we can include other things.. and also.. I’m fat and lazy.. moving to me is just annoying!

This is a big fig--

The big fig activity, nothing is too short to fit us, this activity let us know how to plan activities with some kind of pronunciation chain or tongue twister, in the level of difficulty we want. These activities let the students to make an effort and to work out their brain and to let their mouth chill to pronounce. It wasn’t stupid, I enjoyed it!

My partner's Activities

Now, i cannot remember everything, but what is remembered to anyone’s mind, is the good thing that left life, you see a dead body and then you’ll never forgot its face, that’s what happens with these presentations, some really gave me some shame, some were just excellent and I didn’t want ‘em to finish! Like Karen’s and Juana’s. Others were really stupid like Alejandra’s … nothing personal. By the way they made a good job, Estefania’s one, was very good! I can remember everything… so can I remember the worst ones… and the ones that no shit happened and I don’t remember. Laura’s group, with the sleeping thing… good!! … by the way I felt being observed!

Pet Germs

We decided to which population this activity will be given, and for this activity, that seemed to be a kid’s exercise, we converted it into a class for growing ups! Then we realized that the most stupid subject in this world, no matter if it is for pamper kids, could be transformed to be given to adults, anything can be useful, the day that we gave the class, they at least learned some vocabulary! Some in the activities of my partners… worked on writing and leveled their imagination!

Touché! For the ones who thought this was stupid!