Journal 7.

This week was productive with 903 but unfortunately with 901 not, my lesson plan number five takes place this week and I carried out 2 classes out of the 3 with 903 but for 901 that lesson plan will work for the rest of my time here, my lesson plan for 903 is going to spent a week and a half while for 901, it going to spent 3 whole weeks due to the Monday’s free.

I realized that I became nervous when I am observed by my practice advisor, I do not why but I do, my cooperator said me relax, you are good at this but I felt as if I am doing everything wrong.

Also this week I carried out my third intervention of my innovation plan, we made a declaration of peace, all of us agree with some statements to have better relationship between all of the students; at the same time I can not continue with the intervention in 901 due to the time, from now to the end, I am going to have just one hour per week. 

Journal 6.

Finally, I can finish with my lesson plan number four, as I have mentioned before so many classes have been lost and I only have for lesson plan until the moment, my time in the school is finishing and I start to feel a little bit sad but at the same time so happy because my students said I am a good teacher and that motivate me to be better.

We are planning the English Day and from nine graders, my cooperator and I decided to make a battle between 901, 902, 903 to see which group performs in a better way the song that we are planning, we hope it's a good idea.  

Journal 5.

During this week I only carried out one class, the other three I can not due to the fact that Monday was free and also my implementation of my innovation plan; by the way the class was good, and they are so motivated in learning vocabulary, they are like sponges and they are observing everything, in fact it makes sense, because soon they are going to present the Media Tecnica test and most of them wants to enter to the program.

My innovation plan, this week was funny, and enjoyable, this intervention was really creative and manual, I brought them some material in order to create the peace corner, they were happy coloring, cutting things, writing and so on. The activity that likes the most was the inside out activity, it consists in taking the emotions of the film and make a kind of chart where they have to put their name depending on the emotion that they are feeling that day. They were really happy, but unfortunately other people stole some pieces of the chart and students get unmotivated because of that.

Journal 4.

Unfortunately, this week this have been a little bit slowly, there are some days were I can not give the lesson for that reasons I have missed a lot of classes but I have to take into account that my innovation plan is something that is useful for them, so, that’s the only think that comforts me.

I am so happy with my innovation plan, it is really satisfying to see how your students likes what they are doing, and even better when they said you “Hey teacher, this activity is so cool” I am really happy realizing that my students are enjoying that little moment; I feel proud because this week I could not perform my innovation plan and my students asked me what had happened, that shows me their interest and fills me with joy

Journal 3.

In this week I have plenty of classes, I don’t miss none of them. This week was very productive, I assigned to my students to do a mini-poster about what people should and shouldn’t do in the environment; unfortunately, I only can do this with 901, because with 903 we do not have the opportunity to carry out that activity due to the fact we have to check some previous activities from the pass classes.

I also carried out my first intervention on my innovation plan with 901 and everything was good, it was a funny class, all of us learned how to do a heart, students relax and go out from the routine for a while; at the end of the intervention all of them get to the conclusion that this type of intervention are really good.

And finally I have been observed for first time, I have to say that I was really nervous at the beginning but the I realized that I was with my students that they are active, intelligent and that they like my classes and I became confidence with myself again; there was something that do not like to my students and it was that when my supervisor arrived, he doesn’t say “good morning” and they felt disrespected, and told me that a professor from a University and doesn’t have a good modal, at the end, I got to calm them

Journal 2.

Unfortunately, during this week, I could only give 5 hours of classes due to there were not classes on Friday, I have been feeling so happy teaching, my students understand me, and have a good rapport with me, I’m so happy with it, when my cooperative teacher told me that there are not classes I got sad.

In the other hand, my students like the activities, they like to participate, and they have the attitude to learn that is the most important thing; although this, there are some behavior that sometimes I feel are bad for them, for example in 901 a student shout another one bad words, and in 903 one got angry just because the girls in his group do not accepted the role he gives to them in the activity of a role play and left the group, although my students are 9^th graders, you have to talk to them as children and explaining why they shouldn’t react in that way, fortunately there is nothing that you can solve by talking in a good way with the people and I have managed the situation correctly.

Journal 1.

In my first week of classes I was so nervous, because if I did it wrong? But not fortunately everything was so good. My students are a little bit complicated, there are two girls that only care about their makeup, when I identify that problem in one of my classes I realized that I have to do something to make them forget about her makeup, so, doing dynamic activities was the solution. By bringing realia to the classroom, giving them the instructions but leaving them to work by their own, and making them feel participants of the whole class is the point. When I faced this I started to know or well I realized that an English class is not about go to your classroom and give your lesson on a specific topic and that’s all, you have to take into account your students, make them part of everything. Since this week I realized that my lesson plans have to be planned taking into account my students and not the topic.

Autobiography.

                                      

I remember when I was in Eight grade, I was a 13 years old girl and I make a mistake in terms of vocabulary, remember that I had a task about some words one of them was “bomba” and for that word I got the word bomb instead of balloon; I have to recognize that my teacher corrects me in a softly way but in that time I realized how important are languages and that day my interest in English appears, because the previous years I seen English as another subject but since that day, English was the most important subject for me, the day that I had to see English I was really happy all the day, and I felt good in the class.

The time passed, and the next year in nine grade, we were told about “Media Tecnica” for ten and eleven grade, it is a program given for the Ministry of Education to increase the English proficiency and prepare students for work field; in that program you see more hours of English compare with the other grades, when you are in the Media Tecnica you have to see more or less 16 hours of classes per week, 8 in the morning and 8 in the afternoon, and when you are not in the Media Tecnica, you just have to see 3 hours of classes per week. I became so excited when the teachers told about that and the I got nervous when they informed us that to enter to the Media Tecnica you have to present an exam, if you have a good score in that test you are in but if you do not you are out. I remember that from the day we were told about that I started study and image it was just the beginning of the year, the test was in October and I started to study in my free time, in order to get a really good score, I remember that the day of the exam arrives, all of nine graders were in a room presenting that exam, we were about 82 students presenting the exam, I was really nervous and why if I do not get a good score? I would get so sad but that I remember that before enter to the classroom my teacher called me and say “stay calm, you are going to do it well” in that way, I entered in that classroom with confidence after my teacher told me that; that day I have English in the last hour at 11:05am, I was in class and suddenly my teacher told me to get out of the classroom because we have to talk about something, for me it was really strange because what did she have to tell me? When I went out, she came out behind me, and told me that she had managed to get my results ahead of schedule, I was really surprised because these results come out one week before the end of the year, she did not tell me the results in a specific number but she told me that “You are in the Media Tecnica” I began to cry, yes crying but due to the happiness that I felt in that moment, I have achieved one really important goal, immediately when I realized, my teacher was crying too, she was really happy too because of me, and said me “you are for great things”.

The year ended and I was excited for have my first class in Media Tecnica, when 2015 starts, it was really difficult in terms of the others subjects but in terms of English everything was perfect in the morning we learned about grammatical rules but my teacher managed the class for not to get us bored and in the afternoon we learned in a funny way because we sang songs, we make role plays and so on, in summary, my two last years of secondary school were good, excellent I will say.

When Icfes results came out, I thought about studying International Bussiness but I also have in mind continue with English, so I decided to go for the English route.

In 2016, I entered to the degree in English at Usco university, and I have to accepted that I did not want to be teacher at first but then in third semester when our professors told us about the profession, I realized how cool and nice were my English teachers at school and I remember that I love English thanks to them, so I started to take into account the idea to be a professor, in my fourth semester I received a call from a relative telling me that there was an English teacher vacancy in the school where she worked, I accepted immediately, it was in 2017, and I start to work with primary learners, they were learners from seven years to ten years old, everything was funny, kids give you energy and happiness, believe it is very rewarding to see how your students love you, how our students rejoice when they have English, in that time I confirm that I wanted to be a teacher, I continue giving my classes but of course for that time I have been learning a lot of approaches and method, and definitely the most that I like and implement is about communicative language, more than transmit knowledge to students, we have to encourage them to face real situations and be able to communicate at any moment; in 2019 I received another proposal to work in another school, it was very gratifying to see how they said that my work had been recommended and that I was a very good teacher and they wanted me in that school, so I accepted, in that way I have the work with primary school and now this one, it was a private school, and I have to teach to four years learners, yes, they were babies and it was really good, I remember when in teaching English to children, the professor told us about the importance of teaching English to children in a very young age, and in fact, yes is really important, they get the language really fast and remember the things all the times, also, the tips that the professor gave us help me a lot, because they were kid of four years old, they always like to play, and in fact we play while we learn, they love me and I feel really good with my work when I could go to teach one class and they asked me like why you didn’t come? I got sad because you didn’t come and yes they were kids talking to me in that way, unfortunately I have to quit work, I was about to begin my teaching practicum and the schedule did not help me, my students got very sad when I told them that I was leaving but I have to, I can not say good to them, if I do so, they will start to cry and me too and I did not want so.

Now, this year, at this time, I am in my teaching practicum, and it have been amazing, this is my first time working with young people, adolescent and it is really cool, I have had a good acceptance from my students, at the beginning I thought it could be difficult because when my cooperative teacher told them that I going to be their teacher from September to November they seemed to dislike the idea, even they looked at me very badly but now, we have a good rapport, they have told me that they like my classes and that if it is possible they want me to continue being their teacher the next year.

At this point of my life, in my twenties, I have to say to I am proud of being a teacher, an English teacher, and I want to do it for a very long time, I want to continue feeling so happy when my students say that they like my classes, and also have that good feeling when some say me “you are a good teacher”