Reflection 3

Page 1

University of Puerto Rico in Humacao English Department Shirlenne Peralta 842-07-6270 Practice Teaching Practice Supervisor- Dr. Nilsa Lugo

REFLECTION #3 September 1-5, 2014

The third week at my practice teaching was very interesting. Monday I did not give class because my cooperating teacher couldn’t come because she was sick. The next day I was teaching my class a continuation about Unit 3.1: What makes Puerto Rico Unique? I had my lesson planned out with a few nice activities but it did not work out. I did not get through with everything I planned. I started out pretty good and the class was quiet and calm at the beginning but when they started working on the vocabulary words my class went out of my control which made teaching even harder. I tried many things to control them, I walked around the classroom, looked at them, and raised my hand so they would be silent but none of that worked. There was a student named J____ who would not stay still. He would talk back to me and when I asked him a question he brusquely said to my face I was “una presentá” and the teacher had to intervene. I have a big group and five students are from special education program, but none of them have an attention problem, or autism, they all have specific problems of learning and only one student takes medicine and was recommended by the special education program a distraction reduction. The next day I tried to do the activities on my lesson plan that I could not do the day before and it was even harder than the day before. This day I had three students acting up, but J____ the one acting up the day before was pretty calm to my amazement. That


Turn static files into dynamic content formats.

Create a flipbook
Issuu converts static files into: digital portfolios, online yearbooks, online catalogs, digital photo albums and more. Sign up and create your flipbook.