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Lauren Kuneys Electronic Portfolio |
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Reflections |
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From Second Semester Internship:
The best moment of the week was when I was being observed. While I was pretty nervous, I was also pretty excited. I was so excited because I could tell the lesson was going well. They were all so engaged and asked all kinds of questions. The few times I have been in charge for a moment, it is so much fun. This makes me feel better when I start to be discouraged at times that I might be in the wrong field. The more opportunities I have to teach the more I know I made the right choice. Sometimes mostly observing can being boring, and can make me feel like Iım in the wrong place. When I get to teach, it is thrilling, and Iım so happy about that!
From the ESL Summer School Experience: 6/15/06- Today I did a lesson that I was very excited about doing, because I spent all this time writing out sentence strips and drawing pictures of food. It was an ³I like to eat² lesson. I wanted to focus in on them seeing text, and reading it together as a class, and having the vocabulary of the food pictures. I should have spent a little more time organizing my materials, because I did it at the end of class, and I felt a bit rushed, so things were a little less organized than I would have liked. I was sticking sentence strips and pictures on the board, and since I did not have the tape ready it was distracting and took too long when I was trying to rip it off to stick words up. That is my big lesson for today: never underestimate the power of being totally organized and ready. Otherwise it could lead to disaster. Not that today was a disaster really, it just was not as beneficial as it had the potential to be. Iım glad it happened the way it did because now I know I will be super prepared for tomorrow.
6/28/06- I was able to do something a little more fun and interactive today, so I was so excited. We were reviewing people, places, and events because that is what they have to write about on their post-test. I got three pieces of butcher paper, and wrote, ³Special Places,² ³Special People,² and ³Special Events² on them. Then I had them come up and up their ideas up on the butcher paper with markers. I had them draw a picture as well as write the word. They had so much fun just getting out of their desks for once. At first they were shy, but once a couple people started going up, they all wanted to go up and draw something. They were all engaged and teaching each other. It was really great to see, and I thought it was much more helpful than just standing up there and talking about these things. Any time when I see a big response and interaction from my students is really exciting because I feel like the lesson is so much more worthwhile for all of us. |
