My Teaching Practice Experience

My teaching practice has been the best practice I had because I created a good rapport with my students, and I think that helped my students learned better. At the beginning, I could notice who the intrinsic motivated students were and who were not motivated at all. I identify one student, whose name is Francisco and who is wearing a black shirt in the picture, that was not willing to pay attention and that always complaining about the activities (just as the way I am). I said to myself that I had to make this student understand the topics and get good grades because I was told that he always got bad grades. I paid attention to all my students, but he was my principal focus of attention. First, I brought some activities for them so that they could learn and enjoy at the same time. I could notice that Francisco didn’t like to participate in any activity, but one day while I was sitting on a bench he approached me with some other classmates, and I talked with them. I told them that I did believe they were capable of succeeding in the subject and asked them to participate in the class. That talk followed more random talks in which we talked about different things and in which I could create a good rapport. My surprise was that in the following classes, he seemed more interested in the class, and in fact, I asked him to participate, and he doubtless helped me with the activity. Once he told me that I was calling on his name all the time, but I told him that I was doing that because he was capable of solving the exercise. At the end, I assessed if my students had understood the topic I had taught. I prepared a test for them, and some of them didn’t get good grades, but Francisco got a 10 in the test. I think that I reached what I had set for my teaching practice tough with the tutor’s evaluation I am not so in agreement because she was not in the classroom all the time, so I think that it would have been better if she had stayed in the classroom to assess my performance and to give me grades with which I would agree more.