ORGANIZING FOR INSTRUCTION

How do you focus on instruction?

I focus on instruction as apart of my life. I mean that if I want to be an effective teacher I have to know how to focus on instruction in different ways.

To teach is a part of my life because I feel comfortable when I prepare my lesson plans which are developed in 8^th grade. When I previously prepare my classes. I enjoy teaching; in other hand, I don’t enjoy to teach and I don’t see sense to be an English teacher.

So I like to prepare my classes  because if I don’t prepare my classes, after teaching I feel bad and I feel frustrated during the rest of the day.

Also, I focus on instruction helping my students who have problems with English.

How do you maximize instructional time?

I maximize instructional time controlling the time of different steps of the lesson.

Maybe I don’t have a lot of years teaching as my tutor, but if you observed her classes and my classes you could see that students sometimes pay more attention with me than with my tutor.

That experience is because I try to use until the last second of the hour that I have to teach.

Moreover, one day my tutor told me (please, give me ten minutes to explain something to students), then I didn’t realize my warm-up activity because I had to develop a new topic and the class was amazing, students enjoyed it.

From the better beginning I established some rules for my English class to take advantage of the time. Some of them are the followings:

¨      When the teacher is explaining the class students don’t have to copy the information of the board.

¨      Students have 2 minutes to organize the desks in a semicircle before my English class.

¨      The teacher will check the homework during the free times.

¨      Etc.

How do you expect students to succeed in your classes?

 

Well, I expect students to succeed in my classes, talking to them, explaining during the free times something that students didn’t understand in the last class.

I have created a good relationship with students and they like to talk to me.

I told them that I am not only an English teacher, but also a friend. You know I told them a lot of things with the purpose that they felt  and feel comfortable in my classes.

 I could see that these students learn and most of the time enjoy the class, but I know that not all of the students like English, but they are interested to learn a little English.

 How do you plan and prepare for instruction?

I plan and prepare for instruction in the following way:

First, asking my tutor what is the topic if the topic of the next class, after that I organize the time to develop my lesson plan.

I create the general objective that I want to accomplish to the end of the class, and I prepare my warm-up and investigate about the topic, etc.

When my lesson plan is completed I check and check it.

 Then, I created the materials which will be used in my English class.

The activities that I always do are group activities because students like.

When I teach, I am confident because I am satisfied of my previous preparation.

In my first day of teaching, I didn’t know students, but nowadays I have ideas to accomplish a good class. And of course I teach the things that I know perfectly.

I haven’t made changes in the last minutes of my class because they haven’t been necessary.

I need to manage the time for improving my instruction and rapport  with more students.