Some of you have already finished the teaching practice, and some are almost in the end of it!
- I’d like you to share how was or how has been your experience teaching in a public school.
- You have to give your testimonial describing the context, the main characteristics of school and students, as well as highlight how good or bad this experience is for your education as an English teacher.
- You also have to comment 2 testimonials, from 2 different classmates. Ok?
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In the private school I had to make observations, the classrooms are wide, with an air conditioner each, and I could note that the noise from the other classrooms was loud,and it disturbed sometimes the class.All the spaces were well accessed to the students providing a good interaction among all. The direction and coordination were close to the students.The students were respectful, keeping the discipline when talking to them. There was also respect for the teacher, but no friendship among them. Inside the classroom, the English language was still valued for some. Most part of the students from the observed groups, had English classes in language institutes, and the ones who did not, were more interested in the in the class. Although they did not show much interest in the teacher (they were reading, talking to friends), they all had the didactic book.The teacher has good English, but she spoke portuguese mos of the time.It was clearly seen that the focus was in grammar and vocabulary, and although in some classes students collaborate with the discipline, they did not pay attention in the class. It was not difficult to see students sleeping, combing the hair, looking at the mirror or laying on the chair. The teacher makes use only of the book during the classes, even when she feels that students are not interested or not paying attention. Although she does not enjoy the book, she keeps it due to the fact that she does not prepare classes, so the book is a guide for what she improvises on that moment. The Ss did not seem interested, and the teacher did not motivate them properly with games, extra activities, or different activities and themes from the book.
ResponderExcluirIn the language institute, the school worry is to offer a qualified learning for the students, and the relationship among the director, coordination and teachers was friendly. Inside the classroom the English language is well valued, and the teachers do not allow students to speak in Portuguese. In the observed class, there were 12 students, which allows the teacher to work with all abilities due to the reduced number of students.The teacher is motivated in class, and the students feel comfortable during the class. The interaction among Ss-Ss is frequent; because they help each other in the activities when one do not understand (the teacher was a native speaker and did not speak protuguese) what the teachers say. Some students also say that prefer staying in the English class rather than going to school.
It is interesting to note that the teacher always brought extra activities. When they did not understand or fell bored, she changed the topic or the activity. I could note that the relationship between the teacher and the students was friendly, and she imposed respect.The internship in the public context was carried out in a nursery with a 6 year old group. It is localized at UEL campus.The observed English classes are given twice a week for trainees, and with the teacher supervision. In the classroom, it is possible to note that the students enjoy the class and the language. There is in some occasions, lack of attention from the students, and some indiscipline.Because the Ss are not able to write or read yet, the focus is on vocabulary.
The trainee seems not to have control under the Ss and during many occasion the class needed to be interrupted and the teacher screamed to the children make silence and pay attention. In some parts of the class the teacher participates in the activities to control the discipline in class.
Although the improvement is very slow and with a lot of interruptions as every semester the trainees are changed, I could see a change.
In the three contexts, I think that I dysmistified some pre concepts about the teaching practice. In the private school, the experience was not good, the teacher, as I said, was not even a bit worried with the classes. The language Institute was a great experience, the teacher was brilliant and the Ss motivated. Finally, in the nursery, the trainee observed had some problems to control discipline, but it was good, becaude later I went ot this same group to give classes and I had some experience on how to deal with the Ss and could be done to make the english class better than it was.
ResponderExcluirThe experience I had in the nursery at UEL has been interesting for me. At first I got worried because I had no idea of what sort of activities I should make or what kind of posture I had to have in front of the students.
ResponderExcluirDuring the class observations I noticed that it was important to make things simple for students and provide them fun, as they are only six years old and for this reason they don't understand the real purpose of English studies - make them used to the fact that because of the influence that English has, it will be more and more common to have people speaking English in the world.
Then I started getting the hang of it. With Andressa's and Taisa's help I managed to plan lessons in which our objective - make them have contact with the language by having fun, was reached.
Although it was a bit stressful when sometimes students acted in a rebelious way, we learnt how to deal with this and today, I can affirm that now the lessons work as I never thought it would!
Next year the context will change from the nursery to high school. It will certainly be another challenge (maybe more difficult than this one) but I beleive that if I go with a good mood and a good intention the students will cooperate and enjoy the lessons in the same way the children did!
I'm still having the experience of teaching, but it isn't in a public or private school. I'm teaching students of other courses at Uel and it's being a good experience. First, because they are so interested in what they're learning, so it makes the class more interesting, usable. I always listen to my classmates complaining about some problems they face in public schools and in nursery such as lack of respect and bad bahvior , but there at Uel I don't face this kind of problem. The only problem is that students are too shy and don't participate so much, but in fact, in the last month they had a significative growing and changing in their behavior and are more talkative. Thank God!!\o/
ResponderExcluirThe big challenge for me has been to learn things I didn't know or see yet.Sometimes I find myself a bit lost to explain certain things I have no deep knowledge, so it's hard. I think if i didn't have to work I would have more time to prepare a good class, but sometimes I feel myself a bit frustrated because I don't offer to them a better class. On the other hand it has been good for me because I have learned lots of things I didn't know. For me, this experience was good too because I had to use a book, so I had something to follow, and even if it seems to be a "prison", it is not, because you can use other tools to improve your class, and I confess, I'm still learning how to use it because I had never taught in my whole life, so, sometimes it's hard to know what kinds of activities prepare.
I really thank you Taisa for had help me a lot with directions and simple ideas, because I had'nt any idea about what to do.hehehehe
Another thing I want to share is that in the beginning I was afraid they could be hostiles because my coworker was teaching them before I start teaching, and I thought they wouldn't like the idea of having another teacher, but I was wrong. They enjoyed the idea because we're completely different and the classes are different too. What do I mean with all this?
I mean that I need to improve a looooooot and that this experience woke me up tho this reality.
As Rhome said, I sometimes feel frustated for not providing dtudents with a better class. It happens because we have many things to do besides the classes of the internship. But in general, I think it was a good experinece.
ResponderExcluirDuring my teaching practice at the public school, I realized some aspects that I did not know about this context. Firstly, the school is organized, simple, and corresponds to most of students necessities, such as library, cafeteria, addapted classrooms for special students. There was also commitment among parents and coordination - of course, in some cases -and the relationship among teacher and student - me and the English teacher - was very good. It was a great experience, because as I have been teaching for 2 years in public and language schools, it was very compensatory to be in a different context, facing another teaching parameters and students' capacity. It was higher than my expectations. I thought I would have problems with students' behavior and probably, my classes would be damaged by this, but when I started there, since my first impression I realized the opposite. I am not saying that students are quiet all the time and they have an excellent behavior, but even they knowing I was only a "temporary teacher to be" they attended my classes and respected me. So I could feel as a real teacher for this short time. In the other hand, I saw some difficulties in this context: lack of resources, students social level limiting the material acquisition, too much students at class, library always closed or creating barriers that dismotivate students reading. Concluding, it was a great experience, as I already mentioned. This context made me face a different way of teaching and study.
ResponderExcluirAs Andressa and Romelaine said, it was not a big deal preparing classes with the lack of time I had. I tried to do my best, but I can say that time would be great to improve the activities performed.
ResponderExcluirI agree with Andressa when she mentioned that she dymistified some concepts of the three contexts. As I am just engaged with two of them - private and language school - in the public context I had some idea from teachers and students comments about any public instituion, but I haven't been engaged with any public school. Observing classes in the contexts I was used to, they were not surprising the way teachers act or students react, because the institutions are really similar to what I just know. Most of the aspects was surprising in the public school, such as students' social level, resources that I have and there I have to control like photocopies, scholar material for every student, Internet acces for students. Many stereotypes were put aside with this experience.
ResponderExcluirMy experience while teaching in a school was really nice, and I think I learnt a lot. I tought in the "creche da UEL", which is located at UEL campus. The invironment there is really good for children, and they have lots of resources to work with them. The school is considerably big, and the groups are not too crowded like in public schools, mine, for example, had from 15 to 20 students. In each classroom there are toys, pillows, a TV, desks, material necessary to make little works, and there is also a computer for the teacher. There is a space for children to have their meals, good bathrooms, and a big courtyard with a playground. The relationship between the teachers and other employees seems to be good, and the coordination may attend to all their necessities as professionals. I tought a group of 5 year-old children, twice a week, on tuesdays and thursdays. Our class had 40 minutes, as it started at 8:30 and finished at 9:10. I worked with some books of short stories, and the classes were prepared to make sts. understand these stories, through vocabulary and the other things related to our daily routine. The classes were very nice, and all the students participated very much. Of course there were some days when we had difficulties to call their attention, but it was not too annoying or tiring. I faced some problems in my relationship with the teacher of the class, like wrong information about the time of the classes, some interruptions made by her while I was teaching, but I think this kind of problem happens in every place. In my opinion and for my experience, this was a very important experience to confirm or even disagree with some ideas I had in my mind about teaching. I learnt about the organization of a school like this, about teachers practice with children, which I did not know so much about, and so on. As a teacher to be I think this is a very important stage of our formation, because this is the time we can experiment things, see what works or not, share experiences with our colleagues, and prepare ourselves to act as professionals.
ResponderExcluirElaine mentioned that she could feel she was a teacher in the internship. I had this same feeling in the nursery. Although the do not behave well, they see you as a teacher and respect it.
ResponderExcluirWhen I start to teach as a trainee in a public, I think that 50 hours teaching was a exaggeration, and it will never finish. But as a time was passing I learned the better way, how prepare classes and how to teach then the classes “flow” normally and the time passed very quickly.
ResponderExcluirWith the English teacher I got to understand better the students and respect their difficulties and problems. In the last days, I had already known to teach and how to behavior to the students pay attention and participate of classes.
The biggest difficulty that I found during the period I taught was the lack of respect of the student in relation to me, because they saw me as a simple trainee and not as a teacher and just obey when the teacher intercede. But, I fell that when I am a teacher I will have better control of situation.
So, I have no doubt that this moments as a trainee was very important in my teaching life, because I lost my fears and prejudices in relation to teaching in a public school and nowadays I think I am more prepared to be a teacher.
I agree with Elaine, when she said that the school have many problems like lack of resources, students social level limiting the material acquisition, too much students at class, library always closed or creating barriers that dismotivate students reading but it don´t let me down and today I can see diffrent this cotext that change my way of life
ResponderExcluirAs Marta said this experiences as teacher to be is important for our formation, to Know more things, and what to do or not in the classes and changes experiences whit our classmates then improve our knowledge about classes and be prepared to teach
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ResponderExcluirJuliana, I had the same feeling you had in the beginning... hahaha... I did not know how to deal with children... as you said, in the beginning it is too dificult, and we really manage to make things right. Thanks God I did not stay alone, I had a partner, Laís, who helped me a lot. We were always sharing ideas and it really worked. Now I really believe that two minds work much better than just one...
ResponderExcluirRome, Andressa and Elaine talked about a very important and common (I think) issue: the lack of time. I think this is a problem every teacher has to face, and the situation is even worse for us in the teaching practicum, because we have to controll our time and do the best we can with it, and I think we all got it!
ResponderExcluirHello everybody, I’ve already finished my internship. I taught in a public context in 6º grade classes, which I found tiring. I learned a lot and some believes I considered easy to put into practice was not that easy.
ResponderExcluirTeaching oral and listening skills at a forty-student class is really hard, but I didn’t change my mind, I think we should insist in doing that. I noticed that student’s rejection to these two skills is because they are not used to this and don’t see activities involving those skills as serious ones. If we present the students those skills little by little, and start evaluating their knowledge on them, chances are, they get used them.
Something that really called my attention was the fact that, you don’t need knowing English well in order to teach in a public school. Unfortunately the classes of English in a public school can be taught by teachers of any subject that knows how to conduct and keep the students in order, duo to the style of class that students are accustomed to.
My main difficulty was dealing with the discipline of the students, because they didn’t know much, teaching them didn’t demand me much linguistic capacity.
The school is good, but as all public schools that I have been at as student or teacher, English there is not priority and is, actually, put aside.
It was valid to me; I could know how the school structure works, what teachers think of the teaching and how to face the classroom reality.
As juliana says, the hard thing is keeping them interested in the class and in a good behavior, even for students of 13 year old, you have to be more than linguisticallya good teacher.
ResponderExcluirI think that Elaine is correct, when says that the school is organized.
ResponderExcluirBut the knowledge of the students on English cannot be considered good. Once more I agree with her when says that found some difficulties with resourse and the large number of students in class,
In my oppion the main thing that interfere in the results of students' knowledge is the large number of students in class, the rest are things that a good teacher can deal with.
Hey people! It is very nice to know about your opinions and experiences as teachers! My teaching practice was in the Nursery of HU (Hospital Universitário) and I had a wonderful time teaching there. I think their context is almost the same of UEL, but they do not have a computer inside the classroom and their TV set is in the library. Their library is big and very organized with some appropriated materials that teachers can use to provide good activities to the kids such as: reading, watching movies or playing games. I think they know how to use their space very well. They have a good kitchen, exclusive bathrooms, playground and a field where the kids play soccer and do physical education. Differently of Juliana and Marta, I didn’t have problem dealing with bad behavior, but their teacher helped me in the beginning because they were used to obeyed her and little kids like them (6 years-old) must be guided by someone that they know very well otherwise they feel free to do what they want to. The worse problem that I faced was that I didn’t know if I should speak some words in English and translate every single word or not. With Taisa´s guidance, I realized that I need to pay attention about the kids’ reaction and translate just in case they do not understand. And it was very surprising to me that they could understand more than I though!
ResponderExcluirI agree with the girls (Elaine, Rome and Andressa) about the lack of time... It is almost impossible to do everything so perfect as we would like to... but this is good because we have realised that on time!
ResponderExcluirWellington, I'm so proud of you! Even tough you faced a lot of trouble you haven't chanced your mind! That is very good! The world need people like this... you know. I agree with you, It's not easy to teach speaking and listening in a big class like that... but if we do not do it we are going to make the same mistakes that teachers have done for years! CONGRATULATIONS!!!
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