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Introduction

The journey of teaching-learning has not been easy; however, it has been fun, interesting, and innovative. The teaching-learning process always requires efforts, patient, passion, and optimism, but the results are gratifying. Through this adventure we called teaching, we have got many good experiences and we have experimented a growing in our professional skills.

Adventurers are constantly being challeged by circumstances. They find a life test that might scare them, but they always face them, getting the resources they have, going inside and devise a plan, and presenting themselves to what they encounter. You have everything to be an adventurer. Are you ready to take the first step?

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Formative Feedback about the Subject: Marvin Velásquez

In my opinion, the course was very helpful to improve our teaching. I think that this course have served me as boost to my teaching skills because now I am more confident when planning a class, and also I am more effective when giving classes. In addition, I liked the way the teacher gives his classes. I think that he should continue teaching in that way, giving examples of the topics and providing students the necessary tools for learning. Besides, I really liked that the teacher provided us the documents for lesson planning. Thanks to that, my repertoire is wider than ever before. I suggest the teacher to continue doing that because students benefit a lot from those resources. In essence, this course has been very fruitful for me because it helped me to grow as a teacher, and thanks to the teacher I have many tools to work with.

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Self-assessment: Marvin Velásquez

In this semester, I consider that I did well the things; however, there are some aspects to change. In the positive things, I improved a lot in my lesson planning since it was so difficult for me at the very beginning. Thanks to the course, I could learn how to construct a good lesson plan with specific objectives and meaningful activities. At the beginning of the course, it was kind of difficult the rhythm of the class because it was the first time in that group. However, I could adapt to the teacher’s way, and learn from him. In the things that need to be improved, I have that it is still difficult to me the lead in activities. Even though I learned about that, I have some troubles when planning a good transition between stages in a lesson plan. Also, what I learned from the course was really helpful, and also I obtained experience. My learning was successful because now I have more knowledge and experience than before.

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Professional Development

César Larrazabal

Although the pronunciation included in the videos might be slightly different from the ones we are used to, I have two favorite British websites that are completely useful. They have podcasts, programs, grammar exercises, resources, and articles about English teaching.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/.

https://www.youtube.com/user/bbclearningenglish

It also has a YouTube channel, which is mainly focused on learning, but they can help you get ideas to teach with their outstandingly creative ideas, such as talk shows explaining grammar and a pronunciation workshop.

https://www.britishcouncil.org/

Here the main focus is on podcasts. It has many videos and lectures in the downloadable app, too. They are crucial for teaching to study for standardized tests as TOEFL, TOEIC and others.

In order to avoid the preference over British sites, I also suggest you revise these two YouTube channels to learn American pronunciation.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-MSYk9R94F3TMuKAnQ7dDg

In their app-based videos, all the phonemes of American English are taught in context, with their corresponding examples and phonemic transcriptions.

Madelyn Morales

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9SpbqR8-Kc

Motivation is an important factor for people to continue learning since a person without motivation does not allow him/herself to learn more. That is why, I think this video can help people who want to continue acquiring knowledge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roVi9l3MKt0

https://betterlesson.com/

https://www.commonsense.org/education/top-picks/best-professional-development-websites-and-plns-for-teachers

I also think this material could help a teacher who wants to enrich his/her knowledge, for there are some programs that allow teachers to learn online and help them to improve their skills.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCve1_r0O9nxyYYBh36apfww

This Guatemalan English teacher shares what she does in her experiences. Ranging from her decision to become a teacher up to warm-up activities and videos of whole classes, Lucie enthusiastically includes all what an EFL teacher wants to know. The best part is that her videos are in Spanish, as she teaches English for Spanish speakers.

Cristhian Tacón

https://worksheets.theteacherscorner.net

This is a very useful website in which we can create worksheets for our practices; for example, we can create crosswords.

https://www.englishgrammar.org

This site lists the grammar rules of the English alphabetically, and they are easily accessible. Not only that, they provide PDF files of lessons on these rules that you can use with your students.

https://www.youtube.com/user/rachelsenglish

For me, this site is the ultimate resource to understand phonology of English. Rachel explains the pronunciation of actual words in daily speech. She deconstructs conversations into the sounds and explains phonological variations, such as the flat T, assimilation, vowel reductions, etc. Rachel has a series of videos of many often-mispronounced words for free.

Leslie Vega

https://www.telc.net/en/about-telc/news/detail/tips-for-teaching-a-foreign-language.html

The link talks by itself. In there, you will find many useful and practical tips that will help any teacher to teach a foreign language. What caught my attention in that article is that it is focused in student-centered instruction. These tips help teachers bring context into the classroom and motivate students.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrU6YJle6Q4

This TED Talk is very interesting since it may help teachers introduce them into the students’ world. What the behaviors mean, and what are the messages that students usually send, consciously or unconsciously.

Marvin Velásquez

https://www.learningpersonalized.com/how-to-encourage-student-interest-in-foreign-language-learning/

I recommend this article because I think that we as teachers EFL need to cultivate the interest in learning languages. This article provides some good suggestions to motivate students.

https://www.readingandwritinghaven.com/best-books-for-english-teachers-professional-development/

Reading and Writing Haven’s BEST BOOKS FOR ENGLISH TEACHERS: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT. In this article, a list of book recommended for all the English teachers. It’s a great resource to read when we are on our reflective vacations.

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Analysis of Microteaching Sessions: Marvin Velásquez

Through the micro teaching sessions I had during the semester, I could grasp many useful things to improve my teaching skills to become an effective EFL/ESL teacher. In the first point, the micro teaching about leadership encouraged me to become a leader. I think that being a leader can improve the mechanic of my classes because students are going to feel a good atmosphere with someone very capable and self-aware of himself. Also, a demo class that I think may empower my skills was the one about Project Based Learning. I think that through PBL, teachers can elaborate better lessons. We as teachers can create meaningful tasks for students to develop critical thinking. In addition, cooperation and collaboration are fundamental aspects in an effective EFL/ESL teacher. If a teacher has sense of group work, students are going to replicate that. We as teachers can foster the collaboration between students and also between students and teachers. As I said above, to have a good connection with students is something essential for teachers. Besides, the ways to improve the language skills through writing paragraphs, doing role-plays, or listening to audios can help foreigner students to comprehend better the topics. Finally, the majority of topics have been helpful to comprehend how to teach a language to foreigner students. I think that we as EFL/ESL teachers must have a clear idea about that and thanks to the topics developed in classes we could comprehend that.

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Introduction to Language Teaching: Marvin Velásquez

The relevance it has in the classroom is a lot. Since almost all languages can be taught with the same techniques, this topic takes a big role in the classroom. The different ways to teach structures, pronunciation and vocabulary are so important when teaching a language. Through introduction to language teaching, we can see and perform some of those techniques, ways and practices to teach those things. In addition, we can know how to teach a foreign language to a foreigner as foreign teachers. I feel more confident to have an effective classroom management because “Introduction to Language Learning” gives many ways to teach and if something doesn’t work, I have a plan B. I think that I have more opportunities to have an effective classroom management because of the knowledge of how treat with foreign students. In the case of making lesson plans, the elements of language teaching help a lot in the construction of the different parts of the lesson plan. The ways how to treat students can help in how to find the correct warm up activity and how to select the good kind of practice. Because of that, introduction to language teaching is so important.

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Macro and Micro Lesson Planning: Marvin Velásquez

In the case of micro and macro lesson planning, I can say that this topic was very useful for me. Thanks to that, I could improve my ability for lesson planning. I think that lesson planning is pretty useful for teachers because it makes teachers more organized when giving classes. Macro lesson planning is something that can better a lot the plan for a whole course because it is a guide for micro lessons. Also, it is so nice to know more ways such as the WIPPEAR or the 5 E’s since you have more options to adequate the topic according to students’ interests and ages. To be honest, there is more work to be done in lesson planning by me because i still have some problems with thinking what to put in a lesson plan. However, this course with this topic have helped me a lot in lesson planning.

If you want to review the lesson plans I created wih my classmates, the link is here.

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High School Teaching Practicum Experience: Marvin Velásquez

After this teaching practicum experience, I realized that my strengths are communication with students, exemplification of topics and semi controlled practices. To begin with, I had a really good communication with students during classes. I could make them pay attention to my classes and participate. Also, I can say that the examples I used for explaining certain topics such as prepositions and tenses were correct because all students could understand the topic thanks to my examples. Last, my semi controlled practices worked well with them and I could engage almost all students. I think I could build other skills upon the mentioned above. For example, in communication, the relationship with students could help me when doing free practices because they are going to understand and develop the activities in a better way. Besides, I can develop my creativity to teach them with good examples and visually attractive. To be honest, I realized that it was so difficult for me to create a meaningful and attractive warm up. I have to think more on the meaning on the activity and not on the attractiveness; they have to be balanced. In addition, the transitions from one part of the lesson to another were a challenge for me. For example, when I had to pass from the introduction to the explanation, Finally, I didn’t know how to make that transition smooth. My changes from one stage to another were sometimes simple and uncomfortable.

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