Our second lesson but my first one!

Ok! Today was my first lesson in the sense that I was the one in charge of giving it!

I can say that it was an awesome experience! I felt completely relaxed though I was being observed by my University professor. I was grinning from ear to ear to see that students were all ears! I think, as a teacher, you will always rejoice in seeing students-favourable-answers. Maybe they are not the answers you expected but they are answers after all. Each boy, each girl, in their own particular way...that is what I feel delighted at because there is where I can see the miracle of each particular life with its unique personality and experiences of the world.

I felt confident and willing to do my best and that was certainly felt by the students. I saw them laughing, showing astonishment, showing a shy attitude and a not so shy one, trying to speak in English running the risk of being laughed at and laughing themselves at their own mistakes. Actually, expressing themselves as they wanted and feeling comfortable in their own seats (not wanting to escape from the class at the first chance they found).

The strategy used at the beginning of the class of giving students sweets served as a motivator at the same time that made them practice one of the grammatical structures learned. In fact, what I noticed they liked a lot was that they were given the candies one by one and they "were named and asked what sweet they prefered: a lollipop or a chewing gum". The sole action of calling them by their names, I think, was novel and catchy for them. I believe that learning the names of our students is quite a good strategy if we want to reach closer to them and make them feel comfortable and actively involved in the class.

Well, there are many other points I could refer at but I prefer leaving them for later when I had reflected deeper about them. As time passes by, the perception of events and of the persons involved in them becomes broader and richer.