The Teaching Practicum II with teens has been a great experience for me since I learned so many things from different people; things that I am sure will be totally helpful to my profession as an English teacher. At the beginning, my friend Ingrid and I were in charge of a group of students which started with the presence of 9 students. Then, it decreased to 8 students because one of them only arrived one day. It was during the first five weeks of classes. As in the groups the number of students went down, it was decided to have the groups joined; therefore, our group was joined to Gisselt, Monica, and Cristela’s group which only had around 5 students. However, by that time some of our students did not arrive anymore, so the joined group ended up with only 9 students in total. As a matter of fact, it was the same quantity of students that we had at the mere beginning of the classes, but with different students. We taught lessons during ten weeks and throughout the ten weeks that we had to teach, I had the opportunity to teach around 11 hours; thus, I will describe some of the most important moments that occurred during my teaching hours.
One
of the most important moments to me was the first day in which I had to teach
since I did not how the students were going to react at the moment in which I
said something, I was so nervous. Nevertheless, I started the class so relaxed
that my nervousness was not noted. This moment was important because I realized
that I was able to do a good and that my students even though it was not easy
for them to understand me, after some repetitions and modeling they were able
to do it. I felt really happy when I saw that they were doing as it was expected.
I not only felt happy because of the results that I got, but also I learned to
trust myself in every single moment of my life because I can reach as many
things as I want because I have the capability to do it.
Another
important moment of this experience was the time in which the observer teacher
arrived to my class. I never imagined how helpful it would be, I just thought
that it was neither necessary nor helpful to have someone there when this
person could make us to be even more nervous as we used to be in every class.
However, when this class was over, I completely changed my mind since I noticed
that she started pointing out exactly in the good aspects and in the ones in
which I had to improve. I really liked her help because without any doubt her
comments were what I needed to hear in order to improve or keep what I had done
in that class. Thus, the following class I tried to be focused in all aspects I
was been told previously. As a result, I reached my expectations to improve
them because when I met the observer, she told me that I had improved, and of
course told me new comments and suggestions. In this way, I improved and I changed some of
the things that were not good in my teachings since every comment that I heard
from the different observers I had, I kept them on my mind until as I was able
to overcome them. Now, I can say that I am really thankful with them because
they were who made those moments significant and meaningful to me. 
Finally,
other moment that was most important to me was every time that the production
part of a lesson finished. It was very important to me because in there I could
see the result of my effort during the class. In that part, it was said if the
objectives were achieved or not, and every time that they were achieved, I felt
so happy because I could know whether I had done a good job or not. Also, it made me feel motivated because I knew
that my effort was not in vane and that I could
To
sum up, this teaching practicum has been one of the best and most significant
experiences of my student’s life because I learned so many meaningful things
that without any doubt will be such a great help when teaching any kind of
students. During these ten weeks, I could grow up as a teacher, and for that I
am really thankful not only with those observer teachers who helped me a lot,
but also with my teacher Yanira Peña, who has been not only an ideal help in my
whole major but also she has been an inspirer who, in a way, made my way to go
in order to be who, so far, I am.
