During this first semester of forth year, I attend Colegio
Lincaray, which is a semi private school located in Chiguayante. It
has courses from pre- kinder garden to eighth grade and there is
one course for each level. Also, there are around thirty students
per class. At present, I assist on Fridays to the sixth graders
class from 8 am to 9: 30 am and to the fifth graders class from 9:
50 to 11:15 am. I started my pre teaching practice around the third
week of April. Among the activities that I have usually done in the
classroom are to check if the students have brought the homework,
to check if they are doing the activities, to explain the contents
personally to those who have not understand , to check evaluations,
and to try to keep them quite. Moreover, I have planned and done
classes twice, one for the fifth grade and one for the sixth grade.
Contenidos de la unidad didactica observada
In the English class, students of this school do no use the book
provided by the ministry. Instead, the teacher chooses the books to
all levels and they are reevaluated each year.In the case of fifth
graders, they use the book called Kids Web. When I started
attending the school, the fifth graders were working on the unit 2
called I love math .In this unit, students learned the names of the
subjects, how to make their schedule and the uses of on and at.
When I checked their tests, I observed that it was very easy for
them to learn and recognize the names of all the subjects because
most of them are quite similar to their Spanish meaning in terms of
spelling. However, there were a lot of mistakes when they have to
complete sentences using on for days and at for time. After that,
they studied the unit 3 called Going green where vocabulary related
to recycle were taught. At the end of this unit, I had to make a
lesson doing a summary of the whole unit. Firstly, my lesson
started showing pictures of how we can save our planet with a short
description of it. Then I showed a video of song which tells us
what we can do to save the Earth called Going Green. After that, I
showed sequences of pictures where students have to indicate which
of them were mentioned on the video. And finally, they have to
complete around ten sentences using the vocabulary learned. Now,
they are in the unit 4 called Everyday where students will know
vocabulary related to daily routine. The length of the texts
presented in the book are not so long, most of them have aIn this
course, the speaking ability is reinforced usually thought
songs.The sixth graders use a book called Everything 1 which half
of it is taught in sixth grade and the other half is taught in
seventh grade. The units of this book are longer than the fifth
one. They usually create dialogues where I observed that they have
no so much problems related to pronunciation. When they were
working on the unit 2 called Families, I started to assist to their
school. They were at the unit. Now, they are working in the unit 3
called At home. I have to. I used I power point presentation. At
the beginning, I presented prepositions of place as in, on, under,
behind, next to, in front of and between giving them an explain
with a picture and a sentence. By they understood immediately.
After that, I took a box and a toy, and I asked students to come to
the whiteboard and perform with the box and the toy the preposition
of the sentence given in the power point presentation. Few of them
did not match the preposition given. At the end, they had to
complete some Modelos de planeamiento
The planning of the contents is totally related to the contents
of the book. The main reason for that is that the parents tend to
complain if the materials brought by them are not used in the
classroom. Usually, the lesson starts with the revision of
homework. The students usually have as homework a page from their
book or from their practice book which has just grammar exercises.
At the end of the class, the teacher designates what is going to be
the homework for next class.
Seleccin de aprendizajes esperadosEstrategias de aprendizaje y
evaluacin
The teacher starts a unit contextualizing the contents to the
students life. After that, students do the activities until
complete the whole unit.The teacher tries to repeat in order to
acquire a proper pronunciation of the phrase o words studied.In the
case of evaluation, I have checked a lot of tests from different
courses and I have detected that the teachers focus is rather on
vocabulary than grammatical structure. For instance, students
usually have more mistakes in those exercise related to grammar or
where they have to create a whole sentence using a specific
grammatical structure. The tests usually have a listening in the
first part, then a reading, complete the sentences with the words
given, there have been few cases (two or three) where the teacher
have included translations exercises in a test.
Recursos del medio y apoyo al aprendizaje
During my stay in the schools, I have observed that every
classroom has its own radio, computer and data projector.
Therefore, teachers do not have problems using all of them the
technological devices that the same time. Moreover, the school has
a library which students can do activities in groups, use the
computers, maps and Students have dictionaries in the classrooms
drawers. However, they are usually not used in the classroom
because Both books, fifth and sixth grades, have a computer version
which is usually projected in the whiteboard when the teacher wants
to do a listening activity which is on the ebook.
Desarrollo de aptitudes de disciplina
Since my first day in the school, students and teachers of other
subjects have considered me as any another teacher. Students show a
lot of respect towards the teacher and me and they obey the
instructions given by both of us. On the classrooms walls and on
the schools walls in general, there are not writings, so it
demonstrates that the students take care of and respect the
environment where they study. Inside the classroom, students have a
very good response towards the English language. Most of them
demonstrate dominance at their level. There are some exceptional
cases where some students seem that they want to get the attention
of other classmates by laughing aloud or asking a question, but
this does not irrupt the regular pace of the class. This semester,
I consider it one of because I am able to
