Second Hot Reflection ( Second Period)

Describe It was around 6:50 a.m. and I was about to teach my second class with Advanced II students. This time I was comfortable because I had already had the opportunity to work with the group, and they had a good attitude towards my class.  I really liked the way this group helped me to develop my class. In general, I think that my class had positive results because I achieved my objective. However, it is important to mention that I developed an activity to teach vocabulary. I asked students to stand up and I pasted some phrases on students’ backs. Then, I asked them to look at their classmates´ back and guess the meaning per each phrase. They had to guess as many meanings as possible. Some students struggled a lot because they did not have an idea about the phrases they read. That is why they were asking me all the time to find the meaning. It made me discover that it was not a good idea to start teaching new vocabulary in that way. What made me feel happy was the way students liked the activity because they were developing their critical thinking. They tried to give their best though they were struggling to do it. At the end of the activity, students matched the phrases with the meanings I provided in a chart, and though they made mistakes, it was rewarding to see them doing their best.
(Analyze)		Plan Action
Interpret	Generalize
Having my students try to guess the meaning of the vocabulary make them struggle too much and made the activity too challenging.	Students need to have prior knowledge to connect with the new vocabulary. If they cannot make that connection, making meaning of the new vocabulary becomes hard for them.	In my future classes, I will continue working to improve my activities when teaching new vocabulary because I do not want to see students struggling.
Letting students share their ideas with their classmates helped them to improve their communication skill and their critical thinking because they had to provide ideas in different ways.	It is significant to cultivate activities in which students exercise the target language. Moreover, it decreases TTT. Critical thinking, on the other hand, lets student autonomy grow.	In my future lessons, I will use as many speaking activities as possible so that I can help my students work on different tasks. Also, I will inspire their critical thinking by having them share ideas with their classmates.
Having a short matching activity of the new vocabulary to be taught helped students to have an idea about the meaning.	Teachers need to present the new vocabulary in a dialogue, conversation or any way to help students become familiar with new things.	In the future, I will select activities in which students can have the chance to notice the meaning of the new vocabulary because it can help me to have better results.