A new semester has begun!

How are you fellows?? I hope you're doing ok!

Well, a new semester has begun in this 2012 and that means new challenges to go through and new experiences to know about, primarly because this semester I have to teach to Junior High school students and to be honest I'm kind of nervous about that because working with adolescents could be sometimes a little bit difficult and dealing with them and their hormonal changes, their moods, psycological changes and love problems could be tired aswell.

In class of didactics 2 we started to learn and review some things about working with adolescents and how we can teach them and manage a good class.

First of all we have learned 3 important things that are useful at the time of teaching and they are: Warm ups, icebreakers and time fillers.

I'll give you some reasons to use them:

1. To focus or re-energy on the first 5 or 10 minutes of the class.

2. Break the ice with new students.

3. To fill a small block when your lesson plan runs short.

4. To replace a lesson that students can't grasp or are bored with.

5. To have a hand for emergencies.

6. To use them when you are called in the last minute to substitute a teacher.

We are learning how a lesson planning is a good way to make decisions in advanced about what to teach, how to teach and the time assigment of every teaching procedure. We have seen some others aspects like why is a lesson planning so important and the benefits that teachers get from their lesson planning aswell.

The principles for a lesson planning are:

- Aim

- Variety

- Flexibility

- Learnability

And the lesson plan format is:

1. General objective

2. Materials

3. Time

4. Warm up

5. Presentation

6. Language notes

7. Practice (Controlled, semi-controlled and free practice)

8. Wrap up

9. Homework.

This is just the begining of my return to my blog!

I will share with you some other information through the semester.

bye bye and take care!