SUBJECT: TEACHING PRACTICUM I

TEACHER: OVIDIO TORRES
PRACTITIONER IN ADVANCED ENGLISH II: VELKIS ROSALES
 TUTOR: GIOVANNI BLANCO
THIRD REACTION PAPER

Describe What I could see in this slice of the lesson is that many students had problems with the controlled and semi-controlled practice about relative clauses. Why? Because it is a topic which have different ways to use and different options; so, the students were like lost because they were constantly asking for the correct answers. On the other hand, the students paid a lot of attention to me and the teacher was attentive to help me in everything I needed, by the way the teacher told me that if I had any doubt about something, I could ask him and that was not going to affect my grade, but fortunately I could manage everything. I felt comfortable and worried at the same time because I was afraid that the students asked me something I did not know, but I did not have any problem on that. The seating arrangement was the horseshoe. As the activities I developed were controlled and semi-control I just used the board to write the date, the agenda, the topic and my name; then, I used a handout to develop the different kind of activities, and I used a chart with some sentences they had to complete.
(Analyze)		Plan Action
Interpret	Generalize
I think that controlled and semi-controlled practice can help the teacher to know if the students have understood or not a determinate topic. I can say that assign not too much difficult practices will help the students to understand better a topic. I think that at the moment to develop the controlled, semi-controlled and free practice, the teacher has to start from the easiest activities until the hardest ones. I think that this will help both the teacher and the students to get their purposes.	Based on what I already know about controlled and semi-controlled practices, I think that those activities can help the students to understand better a topic. Based on what I observed, I think that students had many troubles when they worked in the controlled and semi-controlled practice because they were not sure about the correct answers. I believe that difficult practices can hinder the students at the moment to put into practice what they learned because they can get confused and they will make mistakes.	So, in the future, I will take into consideration to develop controlled, semi-controlled and free practices which will help the students to practice what they have learned in grammar explanation. In future lessons I will implement practices in which the students can understand better the topic. The next time I teach this lesson, I will be sure to start from easier practices until the hardest ones to let the students to learn and put into practice their knowledge.