551025 PEDAGOGICAL EXPERIENCE II

TEACHING JOURNAL FORMAT

Student Teachers Name: Nancy Bibiana Snchez Jaramillo
Language Course: Basic English II
Journal entry dates from March 15/2017 to April 7/2017

The following chart gives account of my performance along my pedagogical experience as a training teacher in online environments with date
entries, link of the recorded videos in YouTube through Google Hangouts, and my reflections in regards of my strengths, weaknesses, aspects to
improve, feelings, observations, comments, etc.

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# of Reflections about the lesson and
Nr. Date Group Topic Link of YouTube video of
students observations
lesson
I think these meetings are significant in
our teaching, because as a teacher is
trying to understand what our students
feel when they do not understand
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something. I consider that it is necessary
(Personal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFzOctKd1qY
1 March/15 B 1 1:05 as a teacher to make the reading of the
interests, likes and
text so that the students have an idea
dislikes)
about the pronunciation of some words,
besides it is necessary to indicate to the
students the correct pronunciation of
some words.
During this session the students were
very active. The activities could be
developed in a pleasant way. The
connectivity of the different towns was
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very bad, reason for which we had
March/ (Personal
2 A 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_lSsBxHtyE 1:30 several interferences but was able to
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arrive at happy end with the encounter.
dislikes)
The students stated that they liked the
activities, about working with the
shadowing, as this strategy helps to
improve the speaking even more.
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# of Reflections about the lesson and
Nr. Date Group Topic Link of YouTube video of
students observations
lesson
I think it was a very nice class, the
students participated very active and
PHYSICAL 1. they expressed that the activities were
March/
3 B 3 DESCRIPTION https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=c6ZES0P8SnA 2:06 very varied and dynamic. The activity that
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2.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ9Nb1paFes caught their attention was the Karaoke,
because they had never sung this way.
The strategies were very playful.
I am happy with my work, the students
express that they like the activities
developed, and they participate with
PHYSICAL much enthusiasm. It is very important to
March/
4 A 3 DESCRIPTION https://youtu.be/KAIoksE3COU 2:00 think about the students, their tastes and
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possible interests, as the class with them
starts after a tiring day, Then, this class
should be nice for them to be interested
in attending.
Only two students were present today,
the other students were not able to
attend the class for their work. One of the
students requires a little more help in
COLOMBIA IS
5 March/22 B 2 https://youtu.be/_M3Qh99SgdI 2:00 listening and speaking, he shows a desire
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to learn and improve his weaknesses. For
this reason, I use varied strategies such as
tongue twisters and music to improve
these skills in first semester students.
Cristian is a very active person, he shows
interest in every activity he performs. The
class was very interesting because we
COLOMBIA IS
6 March/23 A 3 https://youtu.be/mQ3dGHRMZzA 1:50 talked about a topic very close to the
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students, our country. Cristian said that
he liked the activities by the varied and by
the subject.
This evening Juliana felt more confident
COLOMBIA IS
7 March/28 A 3 https://youtu.be/nZx0yzugEzU 2:00 to interact, she says that classes have
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helped her to practice and so she can
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# of Reflections about the lesson and
Nr. Date Group Topic Link of YouTube video of
students observations
lesson
practice speaking a little. Estefania says
she likes activities because they are very
varied, and these classes are an
opportunity to learn and interact with
other classmates. They did not attend the
previous class, so I started lesson plan 3
with them.

I think it has also been an excellent

experience for me to practice and learn
from.
Today I finished the class of Colombia is
paradise, it was a very fun class. We had
connectivity problems, I had to restart
the class on 3 occasions but the students
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1. https://youtu.be/VFzoCMIZ6nQ were always willing to help. Students say
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8 29/March B 4 2. https://youtu.be/AQqIBt6bxaQ 2:00 they are happy with the classes. The
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3. https://youtu.be/eY0b1JCzYL4 strategies I used for classes with students
class Group B)
I try to be dynamic and help us to have
fun learning a bit, using many of the tools
offered by virtual environments found on
the internet.
The students of group A are not as
participatory as the students of group B,
group A has more timid students,
although they have been participating a
little more.
SPEAKING OF THE
9 30/March A 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X870mPTW0EU 2:00
PAST In this class, the students had to read and
produce a little more taking into account
the past tense verbs, this class I
developed as well, since Juliana told me
that I needed reinforcement with the
past tense verbs.
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# of Reflections about the lesson and
Nr. Date Group Topic Link of YouTube video of
students observations
lesson
Tonight there was a lot of interference,
internet connectivity fell frequently but
the students were patient, and we retake
the class again, we were finally able to
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conclude.
(Personal 1. https://youtu.be/WXHHuRxt2GU
10 31/March B 3 2:00 Today there were 3 students who had not
interests, likes 2. https://youtu.be/Shigt1jvLC4
attended before, so I will give you a topic
and dislikes)
from previous classes. They participated,
but they are not as active as the other
students, perhaps because they just
started classes.
The students in this group are very
committed, they like to practice and
interact with each other. Today they said
SPEAKING OF
that they liked the class because they
THE PAST
11 4/April A 2 https://youtu.be/Q9ktrlzqs50 1:50 practice several skills, like reading,
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listening and speaking. It is very
class Group A)
important to develop different skills to
acquire new vocabulary and improve
fluency in each of us.
Today was a very hard day, all members
were very tired for their work day. But
they managed to get there and they
could participate during the class.
Four students started the class, but
Andrea and Hernan were inconvenienced
SPEAKING OF with the connection they tried to join the
12 5/April B 4 2:00
THE PAST video call and participate. Today we work
https://youtu.be/CUBTZFiDxqQ
with past verbs, this subject is very
difficult for Alicia since she does not
remember the verbs in the past, I told her
that the important thing is to practice to
be able to remember the verbs easier in
their different times.
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# of Reflections about the lesson and
Nr. Date Group Topic Link of YouTube video of
students observations
lesson
Today the subject was a little
complicated for the students, because
they handle very few adjectives and very
ADJECTIVES little is studied on the correct order of the
(DESCRIBING adjectives in a sentence. At the end of the
13 6/April A 4 PEOPLE, https://youtu.be/2mp313PqUZc 2:15 class, I asked the students what was the
PLACES AND most difficult of the class and they
THINGS) answered that it is difficult for them to
understand the information that audios
have, so it is important to continue
working listening and speaking.
I love classes with this group, the group is
fun and they like to interact a lot. This
topic has been a bit difficult because they
say they remember very few adjectives.
SPEAKING OF
That is why, I have worked in the
THE PAST
description and comparison of images
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this helps us remember qualities to
class Group B)
describe images.
ADJECTIVES
14 7/April B 3 https://youtu.be/HYNQ5S7wgak 2:26
(DESCRIBING
For Alice has been very complicated this
PEOPLE,
topic and the past verbs, I must continue
PLACES AND
working with these issues to help her
THINGS)
improve.

For me it has been a great experience,

because these practices have helped me
improve my fluency a bit.
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