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UNIVERSIDAD DE PLAYA ANCHA

FACULTAD DE HUMANIDADES
ENGLISH TEACHING PRACTICE

Reflective writing Nº1: The English classroom

I. Introduction

· What do you think the cartoon provided below is illustrating?


Why? Answer briefly.

The cartoon is obviously a clear image of a chilean classroom that I


have seen many times, specially in public schools . Students don’t
have discipline and the teacher is not paying attention to what is
happening with her students, she is just writing on the board and she
CANNOT see the reality.
Most of students seem to be happy not paying attention to the class,
this is because they don’t care about what the teacher is teaching
them. This could be for many reasons, maybe the class is boring, they
do not feel motivated, etc.

II. Reflective writing


· Taking into account the information you collected during the
observation stage, and the team teaching stage.

1. Reflect on the students’ behavior in the English classroom.


2. Have you seen your students behaving this way? Support your
answer.
3. Propose ideas to deal with disruptive students in your school.
4. You have one full page (letter format) for this task; be as clear,
brief and
precise as you can.
5. Use Times New Roman, size 12 letter. You may provide foot notes
and
references to support you work.
6. Do not forget to attach this reflection into your own blog and share
it
with your peers.

During the process of observation and team teaching stage I realized


that students don’t like English class. They feel they don’t know, they
feel frustrated and nobody motivated and oncouraged them to
improve their language level, specially high school students. In the
case of younger students they are more likely to participate in class,
because most of the time teachers prepare them more “funny”
activities (unfortunatelly it is not the majority of cases).

I think the most important thing and issue to have motivated students
is to create interesting classes, I mean not only with too much
language aspects but also with values, activities in which students
can feel part of something, can participate and feel close to the
teacher.

In my case I saw the two sides of the same “coin”, first a teacher who
teaches kids in a very interesting way, this teacher prepares her
classes, create funny activities, encourage students to participate in
class, tecahes values through the curriculum, on the other hand a
very young teacher, who seems to be unmotivated, tired and who
hasn’t a good relation with his students. And I think you have to make
a desicion, a good desicion, in order not to be neither of them. You
have to create a good athmosphere in the classroom and out of the
classroom. You have to feel motivated with what you are doing, and
you have to transmite this to your students in order to make them
feel secure and comfortable and in this way they will feel motivated
to participate in the process you are guiding.

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