THIRD HOT REFLECTION

Describe It was Friday, February 19th at 3:00 p.m., and I was giving my last class at English Access First Year. At the beginning, I was really nervous because I was not in a good mood. Nonetheless, it was a good opportunity to challenge myself because I had to teach and create a good environment in the class in order to achieve the objective of the lesson. It was the first time I had to teach “Quantifiers,” and I was worried because I have noticed that most students struggle with this topic since they tend to confuse them. I tried to vary the activities, and I found interesting ways to teach in this class. Now, talking about the last activity students developed makes me feel happy and proud because it was better than what I expected. I asked them to work in pairs to create a conversation using Quantifiers to discover how much they had learned from my lesson. Then, I asked them to share their conversation in front of their classmates, and they participated willingly. I really loved the way they performed the conversation because they used Quantifiers correctly, and they were not afraid of making mistakes.
(Analyze)		Plan Action
Interpret	Generalize
To have a good attitude helped students to feel comfortable and motivated during the lesson.	Making students feel you like to teach them helps you to encourage them. It happens because they notice the effort you have while developing the lesson.	In my future classes, I will continue working to improve my attitude to create the best context, and I will not allow my mood to be an affective filter in my classes.
Letting students work freely helped them to increase their imagination and to put into practice all what they know about the language. Also, they developed the speaking skill.	It is important to develop activities in which students decide what to do and how to do them because they practice the target language and develop independence. Moreover, it decreases TTT.	In my future lessons, I will use as many speaking activities as necessary so that I can help my students work on different tasks and use the target language freely. However, I will be careful to provide feedback.
Sharing helped students to increase their confidence while talking because they learned how to control their tension when they were in front of the whole group.	Teachers need to tell students the importance of increasing their confidence. Moreover, students need to discover that the benefit of making mistakes is that they learn a lot.	In the future, I will select activities in which students can have the chance to share their ideas with others. Moreover, I will help them to notice the positive fact of the mistakes.