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Teaching Practice Essay

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Teaching Practice Essay






Katlhyn Magali Rodrguez Serrano









Teaching Practice Final Essay, bachelor degree in English
Professor: Elmer Jorge Guardado, Mat
June, 15th, 2014

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Table of content
Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 3
Reflection of the Teaching Practice course ................................................................................... 4
Critical Reflection of the Teaching Practice .................................................................................. 4
Systematization of the Teaching Practice Process ....................................................................... 5
E-portfolio approach including the new learning environment in the ELT ............................ 6
How to deal with the use technology in a school technology in the classroom ...................... 8
Conclusion ...................................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
Bibliography .................................................................................................................................... 11



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Introduction

Teaching practice as its names say, it is a practice where new
teacher trains with real situation that are face in a work in publics schools.
That is why teaching practice is a fundamental process of formation for new
teachers. In this document it will find some reflection about my teaching
practice process. Some explanations about the process that I follow to develop
my teaching practice. Another important point is how the teachers use
technology to create a meaningful learning in their students who are the
future professional educated by us. It is also an explanation of the use the e-
portfolio as tool new tendency of teaching.

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Reflection of the Teaching Practice course

To become a teacher, a person needs to through many stages such as
classes focus on teacher- interaction, how to deal with physiological or
attitude problems and all the aspects involve in the interaction with people,
classes related with method to teach, tools that will be need them in the
teaching- learning process. All those classes just help the people to realize the
path that they are taking. At this moment I am focusing in the teacher that I
want to become, during this subject I realize that become an excellent English
teacher needs more preparation and commitment that I though. (Goverment)
Reflecting in my attitude about the subject and things that I expected
from learning the process, I realize that every day you learn things and you
can give more than what you think. At beginning, it was hard that I wanted
to give up because I felt like I was no ready to continuo with all of the
homework and responsibilities that were assigned in the course. Even
though, I did not give up, I am still trying to overcome that process,
sometime doing my best effort sometimes being so tired to even try it, but at
this moment I just think that never I might give up, the most difficult
challenges to overcome are the ones who teach us great lessons of life,
because these are which prepare me for my professional life.

Critical Reflection of the Teaching Practice

The hardest part of the teaching practice was to deal with lack of the
interest that most of the students present for learning English; another
situation that was really difficult was to give instruction in English, the
students were so used to those English classes were translation exercises that
they did it automatically. Even though, pushing the students to change their
mind about how to learn English can be funny and meaningful, it was biggest
challenge. To make the students feel more comfortable acquiring the
language, I decided to use all types of techniques to make them learn English
with realia and make them to realize that learning second language is useful
for they life. (EDUCATION)

In this countries where English is hardly used, and a native speaker is
almost impossible to find, students never get immersed in the sounds of the
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language because they grow up in Spanish-speaking country. This means that
students use and learn the language just in the classroom, which is why
creating an English environment, it is so important for new English teacher
and moreover for who is learning how to teach and earning the experience to
do it (365)

Although, not all the teaching practice was hard, I learned a lot of
things and enjoyed all the process of teaching. Going into place where you
want to show what an awesome teacher you are is a excited process because
as new teacher all the knowledge and techniques to teach are fresh and that
aspects helps to create a good teaching practice.

The questions that I need to wonder are what am I learn? What I need
to change? What need to improve? What I did good to continue doing?
Maybe I will not able to determine all the aspects for each question but what I
am pretty sure that I have to change is that I have push the students to speak
English all the time, not force them but encourage them to do it the major
time that is possible .one aspect that I think is my best quality is to create a
friendship environment, student truth on my to share thing and ask
questions.
Systematization of the Teaching Practice Process

The Systematization of Experiences, a whole process where steps need
to be follow, for example: the first thing that should be taken into account in
the process of teaching a new language; where the only interaction that
students will have it will be the classroom, their peers and the teacher; it will
be those expectations that I as a teacher will have for my students; the
achievements what I want from them to learn during the process and how
they will learn the language. In addition, The second aspect to be taken into
account in the process for teaching English language are the objectives of the
process employed to carry out the macro skills, the methods and techniques
that were employed to ensure the success of the goals that are planned for the
students and also show them that they can enjoy learning the language in real
and usable form to use it in a world where a second language is a tool for
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successful professional life or even use it to communicate with another in
others countries where English is spoken. (Education)

In my case the systematization process was the following:
Program from MINED
Syllabus for the classes
Outline of the activities
Planning the time for the activities
Lesson plans

When I began to analyze the program established for MINED, I realize
that most of the topics do not match between them. Even though it was what
I used to teach in the practice. At that moment the most difficult part was to
create the syllabus focus on the macro skills listening, speaking, reading and
writing. After create the syllabus the next step is design the outline, which
was the part where teachers can define all the activities that will be use
during the course, depending of the topics that will be developing, those
activities are important to make plan all the material and all the sources that
were use, moreover, the signed a planning allow the teacher to think the best
to organize the activities, in addition, it is the process to schedule the entire
activities course, including dates for each activity. As the last part of the
systematization process is the creation of the lesson plans, designing each
lesson plan allows the teacher to think how the class is going to be developed,
it is a very useful because is an important artifacts. All those artifacts help me
a lot to develop my teaching practice because they were guides lines to
achieve the goals and follow a process already design. (discover)
E-portfolio approach including the new learning environment in the ELT
An e-portfolio is an electronic format for learners or teachers with records
their work, their achievements and goals, to reflect on their learning, and to share
and be supported in this. It enables learners to represent the information in different
formats and to take the information with them between institutions. The use e-
portfolio is a necessary tools because is a according with the new tendency in
education, where blogs and social net are used to share the digital document.
Without reflections, eportfolios are merely a cumulative collection of work. In
order to achieve the full benefits of eportfolios, it is essential to train learners to
reflect on their work. Reflection includes identification of an issue, hypothesis of
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the reason for its occurrence, analysis of related information, and changes.
Technology provides opportunities for online activities, and it has become an
integral part of learning and teaching process. Technology based on learning,
allows the students to be their own monitor. Most of the students are
interest in social media and virtual world learning. As an educator we need
to adopt this approach to develop in the classes with our students or even to
create a technological environment. In addition portfolios provide the
opportunity of collaboration, online feedback, updating, and networking.
The e-portfolio can be used for different purpose and thats why are
divided in three categories, which are: student e-portfolios, teacher e-
portfolio and institutional e portfolio,
The student portfolio allows students to reflect about their personal
developments by organizing learning materials and even use overhead an
computer to present it. The teacher portfolio is collection of material and
reflections use it, in a teaching process this allows the teacher to collect the
evidence of the course improvement. On the other hand, the institutional
portfolio is use to as the same as the students and teacher portfolio but
difference is that it use it to can verify that its standards are achieve or are
accordance with its philosophy and mission. (eHow)
The use of e-portfolios in ELT can be assigned in three different
formats: Development, assessment or showcase. (Portfolio.) Each one of these
has a different purpose in the classroom, for example: development e-
portfolio demonstrate the advancement and development of student skills
over a period of time. The assessment e-portfolio demonstrates student
competence and skill for well-defined areas and the last, the showcase e-
portfolio demonstrate exemplary work and student skills. It does not mare
with e-portfolio is use in ELT the important aspect here is to use technology
and en teaching process of a second language.
In ELT sharing information and interact with students or with other
teachers, it is an important part of the process making it more interesting, but
it is mainly in the use of technology to teach what make classes more
interesting, obtain better results and day by day. To look for new tools to
improve it the daily challenge for the teacher. Basically the e-portfolio in ELT
it is just another tool what is use the actual education system to create and
share in digital world that exist now.
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How to deal with the use technology in a school or place of work but there
is not Technology in the classroom

There is nothing as challenging as getting students engagement and
holding their attention. Today's students are multitasked and can hardly
maintain a long concentration. They can easily get bored and therefore
disconnected. There are many ways you can fight off this problem: Use
interesting educational games and activities, use technology and multimedia
resources. New technologies have changed teaching and learning in a
number of ways from graphing calculators to online lesson plans including
social pages to interact with the students. Nowadays, technology is all
around the world, you cannot omit from environment of the students, so it is
essential to teach them how to use it to learn a new language, Cell phones
with access to computer , Smart phones ,Wii fi speakers , tablets and iPod are
some of sources that most of the students have access. Teach them to apply
for classes imply that teachers need to learn before, educational technologies
can help the students access to amount of information in new and exciting
ways. In fact, one would be pages to test the knowledge or apps on the phone
like duo lingo. (AIR.org)
Although, there has been a strong push to get educational technology
into the hands of teachers and students, many obstacles to implementation
still exist. Equipment may not be placed in easily accessible locations.
Hardware and software often pose problems for teachers in the classroom,
and just-in-time technical support may be unavailable. Teachers may lack the
time and the motivation to learn technology skills. Professional development
activities may not provide ongoing, hands-on training for teachers or
practical strategies for implementing technology into lesson plans.

My plan to teach with technology is to use my own technological
devices to help the students to learn such speakers and computer to make
them hear songs in English or conversations from natives speakers to show
and encourage them to acquire the same pronunciation instead just make
them to make repetitions base on my pronunciation. Another action that I
will implement is to teach the students to use their cellphone to academic
purposes such as assigning homework where they need to recording
themselves to proof that they are using their cell to pronounce or talk in the
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target language. May there will be not internet on the school but they can
internet on their cellphone show them that use it in the right will help them to
increase their learning will be one of my goals. There some school with have
computers but not internet one way to use it is to bring the information in a
USB to install in the computer ad use the technological device. Technologies
can enable students to become more active and independent learners.
computers are not only use to teach English but also can be used in
collaboration for all subjects, but teachers have to take into account the
dierent styles of teaching depending the topic and the area.
Deal with this issue involves teacher creativity, everything can be
solve but it need a lot of commitment from both part teacher provides the
sources and students provides their motivation. As Abraham Lincoln once
said Love the job you do and you will never have to work a day ". What
students learn have to useful for their life and what a teacher teaches has to
be sometime relevant to the new world that the new generation will live

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Conclusion
And finally I can conclude that it is necessary make a reflection after
each teaching process because it is necessary to reflect about what I do? What
should I improve? Because it is necessary to answers all those questions,
because I never stop learning and every process has to increase my
knowledge. Nowadays there are amount of tools that make the education
become more relevant for the new generation , now education has change a
lot from what we met so new teachers have to change too. E-portfolio
approach, paper portfolio all the documents that I learned to do will help my
own professional development in which I add all the technological devices
that I use to teaching practice I both places in the school and in the class.

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