A satisfactory experience as a pre-service teacher

Hello, everyone!

I'm going to talk a little bit about a class that I considered a very good one.

In the third bimester we were talking about Food Incorporation, Healthy and Unhealthy Food and Eating Habits. In the end of the bimester we asked the students to produce posters, advising people to have a healthier life.

At first, I thought they wouldn't like the idea, because the posters had to be made using English only, or because they would think that producing posters is for children.

However, I proved to be wrong, as the students really enjoyed the idea. They were really engaged and very participative during the production.

They came up with great ideas and showed that they were aware of the vocabulary used in the previous classes. They were also able to write some sentences in English by themselves.

When the posters were done, each group had the opportunity to present them to the rest of the class. They explained the posters and exposed their own ideas about the theme.

After that, the posters were fixed to the school’s walls.

As a pre-service teacher, I believe that this experience was a really satisfactory one, as we could see that the students were really into the theme of the classes and that they have learnt much more than we thought they had.

I also believe that when we give the students the opportunity to produce and to express their own opinions they can learn much more and with a better quality.

TATIANE SANTOS