During the whole year I observed and taught public school students. I guess the didactic sequences were elaborated with close attention and they followed the program proposed by the PCN and PPP. The material presented was very interesting for them, once it was quite different from what they were used to. Not only simple activities focused on grammar, but songs, texts, inferences activities and so on.
When the classrooms were complete, it was a little bit hard to make all students pay attention to us, after all, they are thirty five adolescents students!
One day, an interesting fact happened. The classroom was only half students, maybe less. My partner and I introduced the subject, as use to day each class. We were worked on Camila and Josiane’s sequence, about animal fur. Then we notice the students showed themselves really concerned about the subject. More than this, they started asking us English language curiosities and try to solve any kind of doubt they had in English!
That was the day that I felt how pleasant could be the experience of teaching. The experience of passing knowledge ahead.
Marcos A. de Oliveira
Something that also happened in my class was that when there were fewer students in the classroom, I could see that more students participated and pay more attention.
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By Joseane David
In one of my classes, more than a half of the students were missing also, and the ones who were there were not used to participate and interact with me and my partner, they just talked during the whole class. However, in this class, for the reason that the ones who participated were not there, we had to try to interact with them. And as a result, we got closer to them. What we thought would be an awful class, tranformed itself in a good experience because by that we could know each other and by this “extra contact” with them we built a respectful relationship.
ResponderExcluirLuana de Andrade
I remember that day, it was really interesting and pleasing. The students said that they never learned so much English in a single class. The point is that when you reach a specific subject that they engage, the class becomes more productive, and foster students to ask is great, because I am sure they have many questions.
ResponderExcluirCarlos Mendes
When the room is less student gets easier the work of teachers, I think that's why they are present only on that day the students who really want to be in the classroom to learn. During my observations I could actually experience several teachers in training material with a well prepared and the teachers were committed to the new profession.
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