TASK 1

A brief introduction to this task: this task consists in making a small reflection on the practicum that we had the opportunity to live this year in February attending a school.

• What did you learn about teaching and working in a school from this experience?

What I have learned about teaching and working in a school from this experience has been many things since I think that in practice you learn a lot more than in the theory that we give in class since as much as we learn a lot of theory in the career if we don’t put it into practice in the schools it serves very little.

This experience that we had the opportunity to live, to be really in a school within a classroom, in my case a nursery school, was incredible because I lived what it was really like to teach children in nursery school, that you have to have a lot of energy throughout the day because with children so young you have to be active every day, how important it is to listen to all children and not only to those who cost more because if other children who are doing well may feel that you are not good for them, how important it is to have the desire to make materials for them to learn in the most fun and appropriate, how good it is that the class is distributed in corners to facilitate their learning and know where everything is etc.

• What did you learn about yourself through this experience?

What I have learned about myself through this experience has been that I really felt that I want to dedicate myself to teaching. Besides that I learned about myself that with the children of infancy you do not have any shame since they do not judge simply for them everything is a game in which they are learning many things, also I was able to give class and that the children were paying attention to me as if I was their teacher of all their life and that surprised me since I thought that I was not going to be able to capture their attention completely.

• What was your biggest success in this practicum?

My greatest success in this practice was being able to give a whole psychomotor class, which is the mention that I will almost certainly take in 4th grade, since I really like everything related to sports, to give the psychomotor class I prepared each and every one of the exercises that the children did. The children paid attention to me and the most important thing was that they liked me very much since most of them told me and the teacher did too and so that they told me that for me was a great joy and a success.

• What have you done that you didn’t ever think you would be able to do?

What I did that I never thought I would be able to do was to teach, both the psychomotor class, a little bit of an English class and the assemblies they did in the mornings. Because I thought that in the second-year practice, they were not going to let us teach, I thought that I was only going to be in the classroom helping the teacher and dedicating the most time to the analysis of documents. But finally, thanks to the teacher who touched me it was the opposite and I am very grateful.

• What changes would you make if you had the chance to do this over again?

I sincerely believe that I wouldn’t change anything if I had the opportunity to do this again because for me this experience was great, I can’t find anything that would change, I would repeat it in the same way one and a thousand times more.

• How would you describe your teaching style based on your behaviour during the practicum?

I would describe my behavioural teaching style during practice as one in which being active during all class hours is predominant, that children are comfortable and relaxed and that with the resources they use they learn whether they are ICT or not.

• What did you learn from any challenges you faced during this experience?

What I learned from the challenges I faced during this experience was that you have to have a lot of patience with the children because maybe some of them would rather be in the chair than in the assembly and that while they are listening there is no need to force them to sit in the assembly, that you have to know how to deal with the anger between them, how difficult it can be sometimes to teach because the children that day are very excited but you don’t have to lose your temper etc. 

• How would you like the pupils you taught to remember you?

I would like the students I teach to remember me as their teacher in practice, to remember me as I was with them and that if they ever saw me, they would remember me, I would be very happy.