Last thursday our CAP teacher let us know which was the high school where we were going to do the practicum. I was assigned IES Lluís Vives, which is in the district of Sants-Montjuïc. That was definitely really good news!
After contacting my tutor, Isabel, via e-mail, and setting a date to organize the first meeting, me and my colleague Mireia (she's doing the practicum in the same high school as me) went to IES Lluís Vives in order to start this new adventure.
The first thing that Isabel did was to show us the whole high school so that we started to be familiar with the students classrooms and the different departments in which the school is divided. Then, we went to the English department office and talked about the CAP work plan as well as all the activities that we have to do both inside and outside the class and the hours that we have to spend in doing them. She also assigned us the group of students that we are going to teach until mid-december. Mine is 4ESO group 1, I'm quite happy about that.
In the afternoon we went back to the school because Isabel invited us to attend two of her English lessons, so that we could have a first impression of what it is like to be a teacher. Well, the thing is that in English lessons, students are divided into different level groups (1,2 and 3), and once a week they divide the class in half in order to go to the computers room.
The first lesson was with the students of the group 3, the ones who had the lowest level. Isabel used loads of webpages with really helpful activities and grammar explanations like "the present simple gang". They were studing some vocabulary about clothing and, as they have an exam this week, some of them took advantage to revise it. The thing is that not everybody was following the lesson... as you probably know, it's really difficult to get all the attention of the kids, especially if they are in front of a screen and they can surf the net and visit websites or online English translators... anyway, I hope that I had time to revise all the grammar and vocabulary about clothing and the present simple!
The second lesson was with group 2 students. As they were a little bit more attentive, Isabel tried to do a listening, but something didn't work properly and, as a resourceful teacher, she told them to do different activities from really useful websites, all related to clothing. One of this websites is http://www.oup.com/es, and it contains activities from well-known and interesting English books. Besides, she also used activities like crosswords or matching the picture with the correct vocabulary word in order to motivate the students and attract their attention.
I still have to meet my 4ESO group, and I hope to do so this Friday as I have my first observation class. That's all for now!
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