WHAT MAKES A GOOD TEACHER?

Good teachers motivate their students and teach them different perspectives. Effective teachers use the facts to teach from the beginning, not until the end; they always ask questions that start with “why”, see all the perspectives of an issue and motivate students to predict what will happen. They frequently ask students questions to make sure all students are attentive. They try to motivate the whole class, and they don't allow a few students to dominate the class. They keep students interested in learning with varied and interesting tactics.

Good teachers form strong relationships with their students and show that they have affection for them as people. Good teachers are nice, accessible, enthusiastic and affectionate. Teachers with these qualities stay after school and are available to students and parents who need them. They are involved in school committees and activities and demonstrate a commitment to the school.

Good teachers are experts in their subjects. They exhibit extensive knowledge in the subjects they teach and take time to continue their own education in their subject. They present school material with enthusiasm and instill in students the desire to learn more outside of school.

Good teachers communicate frequently with parents. They seek to communicate with parents through conferences and notes or reports sent home. Do not hesitate to call a parent if they are worried about a student.

MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

I started my career as a teacher practically since I was in school, my classmates always tried to help them understand English issues, because I was quite easy in this area, I never wanted to get paid monetarily, because I I was very happy to see them learning and understanding this second language differently, for me it was more than enough, from there I had among my plans wanting to be a teacher. Although at the beginning of the degree program in English, I was not very convinced to continue and not because I did not like the language, I really felt very below other people with the level of English that I brought from the town where I belong, because there the bases English and the resources provided to students are not very good; Little by little I fell in love with this beautiful profession.

The first experience in the city of Neiva, was with a small group of children between the ages of 5 and 7, with whom I still count today, from the moment I started working with them I realized the great love I feel for working with This type of community, from there the desire to do my first practice in elementary school.

Although the interaction with high school students has not been on a large scale, I would like to be able to live the experience in the second practice and learn from it.

Today, I work giving personalized classes to some members of my family and university students from different careers. the experience with each of them has been very pleasant, although some have a hard time managing the language, the will is essential for this and clearly not everyone has it because the fact of learning English not all do it with The same purpose, for many, is to fulfill a requirement as for others it is the desire to enjoy learning a second language, to be able to interact and learn about other cultures as is my case. Every day I fall in love more with this career and this beautiful profession.

Teaching and learning both in the educational field and in life, have the function similar to a bicycle. To keep your balance you have to keep pedaling. Therefore, each of its parts carried out important work in the process:

* The handlebar is the discipline: the thought of the idea of ​​where the trajectory is oriented. Where can I go, what interests me, what do I love to do, for whom I do things, whether it is for my own or common interest.

* The wheels are the vocation of wanting to be: they are the movement, the good and bad moments, the adaptation to those that we find along the way, the answer to each change

* The pedals are the courage and the courage to want to teach as much as to be taught: they are the ones that give the push, the ones that make it go forward, allow to realize what intelligence has seen on the horizon ... decide and reach the goal. Without a will, we would not move an inch from the place of good intentions.

Teaching in development, a path and although there are expensive and painful climbs, let's not stop looking and admiring how wonderful we have around us. Let's teach for pleasure and not for obligation.

Journal Entry #8

Due to interruptions in the classes of last week, the week began with the third grade students, applying the lesson plan proposed for the week number six, in which the vocabulary related to the animals was shown dynamically, children, they sang and did each of the activities related to the subject. With this degree, the group work strengthens the motivation of the class, since I always try that the students who have skill in the area, support those who have a difficult time learning a second language.

The following day routine activities were started in the morning with the fourth grade, thanks to the help of the cooperating teacher, a warm atmosphere was achieved during the course of the class, and videos were shown in the audiovisual classroom about these activities, which I call their attention. At this point in the continuous class, I realized that the visual, manual and group inclusion of children is too important for their intellectual and collective development.

Finally, the week closes with the proposed lesson plan for fifth grade students with whom frequency adverbs were carried out, with this activity it was proposed to put into practice both days of the week and vocabulary related to activities that students do daily, use of elements such as bombs, balon, and videos, made a class quite dynamic and productive.

Journal Entry #7

Week number 6 could not work with students in grades 3 and 4, for different Institutional activities, influenced several aspects such as celebration of the teacher's day, meeting with parents and entrance after 2 in the afternoon, reason why which were run some hours. Seeing this situation, the lesson plans planned for the week number 6 with grades 3 and 4 will be worked on the following week (number seven).

The only group of students with whom it was possible to perform each of the activities without any interruption was with the children of grade 5, who worked with the structure of the verb to be, adjectives, the topic was not very clear even in Spanish. Which from an initiation was explained in the native language to then go to practice it in English. The vocabulary shown for the students in the subject, was easier to work, creating synonyms and antonyms of certain words. Students of this grade are facilitated to work in small groups and as a "competence" in certain activities.

Journal Entry #6

The week started with the third grade students was quite productive, in the sense that the activities proposed to develop the theme of emotions in relation to the verb to be, were of great pleasure for the children. It is important to keep in mind that they are very visual for this reason, the class works that are manual, kinesthetic, develop and help their motor skills come to the surface. 

The next day with the fourth grade students, the movie was shown, like stars on earth, when some of the students noticed certain learning problems related to writing, several of them felt identified and liked the movie, the Film was projected with audio in English and closed caption in Spanish. 

Finally, with the fifth grade, we worked professions, a subject that I call your attention because each one of the students, expressed the importance of projecting the profession they wish to practice in the future.

To conclude the week number 5, I feel more and more comfortable working with this type of population, I feel that my empathy with the children of low ages is very good, and I would like you to understand and understand the pleasure of learning. a new language as is English.

Journal Entry #5

At the beginning of this week is given effectively with grade 3, the class to learn to express their age, phone number, address, identity number, through the verb to be liked by children. Most of them work progressively and those who have a learning rhythm a little lower than others, I try to spend more time to be attentive to their activities. I feel very happy when I enter this room, since the children always receive me with a hug and a radiant smile, they are very detailed, they give me fruit and sweets.

Again there is difficulty with the 5th grade class because this week a festive Wednesday is presented, for this reason the lesson plan is postponed for the following week, making some changes to advance the issue.

With grade 4 on Thursday, we work fruits and animals in the audiovisual room, with the purpose of improving the grammatical structure of the verb to be in the affirmative. The listening part is still a bit difficult for them, but the atmosphere inside this room helps the children to feel comfortable and reach the desire to learn. in the ability of speaking most of them pronounce the words well and guide them in their notebook.

Journal Entry #4

In the course of this week the only class that was completed was with grade 3, lesson plan in which virtual activities and group work are proposed to begin to recognize the use of the verb to be in its different forms, children work from warm and pleasant, it is notorious that they are attracted by crafts and the use of new technologies, incentives are made with positive points and calls for attention with negative points.

 Unfortunately, with the 4th and 5th grades, the classes could not be performed normally, since there were delivery of notes and curricular activities leave early from their usual class schedules. In each section, no matter what degree it is, I put a revised one, which assures me that the student will work in the class in a timely manner.

The heat inside the classroom and external noises to the educational establishment generate a lot of distraction in the children and lack of motivation towards the class, because personally I have to say that the atmosphere of so much heat is unbearable. I recommended to the parents to send the children with bottles of water, to have a good hydration during the school afternoon.

The classes planned for this week that could not be done for the reasons explained above, are scheduled for the following week.

Journal Entry #3

In the week of initiation to the class, we reached an agreement with the teachers of the different classrooms, to reinforce the problem of the numbers in English, strangely I discovered that the classrooms were seeing the same figures, even so the same plan of lesson for the different courses. The third degree, that is, in this way, the degree that less subject has seen was that more of his knowledge float. The activities were carried out effectively with each of them, obviously with a different work rate.

When we analyzed the subject with the practice advisor, I realized that there clearly had to be a change in the lesson plans, so I decided to conclude the subject of the numbers with different purposes, such as learning to introduce myself and give a telephone number, express ages, among other features.

During the realization of the activities I realize that in grades 3 and 5 there are probably students with learning difficulties, which I put to the consideration of the professors of the headquarters and mine, since this changes a bit the rhythm in which these types of students are learning.

With grade 3 the numbers were handled from 1 to 50 (from 1 to 10 successively and from 10 to 50 from ten in ten), with the 4th grade from 1 to 100 in the same way and with the 5th grade students. 1 to 100 and the difference between one hundred, one thousand and one million. In each of the grades emphasize the difference between 3, 13 and 30 and so with the other numbers that have a pronunciation very similar root, it was a flaw I found in the 3 courses.

Journal Entry #2

At the beginning of April (from the first to the fifth of April), the way was opened to analyze the context of the students with whom my first practice would be worked, as I chose the practice with elementary school children, they see weekly 2 hours of English, so to complement the other hours, we agree to teach third, fourth and fifth grades. The schedule was organized with the different professors of each group, being present there our practical advisor, the teacher Luz Andrea Vargas. Daily observe the English class with the different courses, coming to the conclusion of working with them Art and Crafts for my innovation plan, since they are little motivated by the classes and this proposal could help improve their attention and motor development in many aspects.

The received by the students was pleasant and in many of them it is nice to see how they perceive a young teacher who can understand perhaps a little more their needs and rhythm of work.

The atmosphere that is handled in the school is quite pleasant, the children are very friendly and although they are the 3 courses with older children than the others, they do not have any problem with accompanying the little ones, on the other hand and not less important is notorious that the heat in the classrooms is a factor that affects the good development of the classes.

To summarize it was a productive week in which I was able to realize how to handle my learning process with each of them.

Journal Entry #1

During the days of the induction week, the process to carry out a class planning, the different resources that can be used in them, how to react before various situations both inside and outside the classroom and what was more my attention was drawn to the multiple benefits we have by having a practice advisor with us. Each of the lectures presented by the professors of the University, were quite helpful to complement my training as a next teacher, they are experienced people who, thanks to their training process in the different educational centers, promote and improve the students who take the practice. the development of teaching - learning with the students whom we ourselves will instruct.

The workshop offered by one of the students of the Karen Lesmes career, in which the teaching methods for people with disabilities was put into practice, is of vital importance, it is necessary that as teachers we implement inclusion from the classroom type of students and what better than knowing the different ways in which we can act with them without needing to feel any discrimination from those around you in an educational institution, be it school or school.

Finally, I thank each of the professors who took their time to prepare us even more in the process we are facing, the teaching practice and how we form from now on our students will leave a lot to say about us and not only it, our training process will depend on the future of Colombian students, in this case who reside in the department of Huila.