essay

                                                                                                         Student: Karla Turcios

                                                                                                         December, 4^th, 2017

                                                                                                         Teaching aids class

                                                                                                         Teacher: Pamela Rodriguez

Reflexive essay

     When we listen the term teaching aids immediately we think about poster, flash cards, and games, that’s true but in our case the class was developed in another way. Until we started the class in a different way, simple but effectively. The teaching aids are very important in TESOL classes because is an important part of the development of each method that we learn in the English program, methods that we are going to use in order to teach our students.

     With respect to teaching aids class in this term we learned about different things, first we discussed in class what the teaching materials are, also what things we have to consider in the moment to create and select the teaching material to a class. Then we learned different games or activities to develop in class, after that we started with the design of teaching materials as posters, games, flashcards, but these kind of activities were not a good way to evaluation and the teacher considered better change the evaluation, and we started to do micro-teachings, two of them in the classroom and the final micro-teaching was in other classrooms. Finally we had to create a blog where we had to put all the material that we used during the class.

    In the other hand if I have to think about the experiences that the class gave me, I have to say that the most part of my experiences were unpleasant, because never in all my academic life I had felt that the teacher had favoritism with some students and also that I did not have the capacity to do something. Also a felt frustration because I could not finish with my micro-

teachings and if a have to think in something positive, I going to say that I learned how to act in front of these situations and the next time I am going to do it better.

     Nevertheless the biggest limitation that I had in this class was the design of teaching materials, because I am not a very creative person, I prefer do not use material. But I worked really hard to overcome this limitation and the few materials that I had to do for me were good, because the best way to overcome a limitations is trying and if you cannot the first time, try again one day you are going to do it better.

     Finally after teaching aids class, I think that teaching materials are very important in TESOL classes but not the most important part of it, because we can teach something without a poster, without a set of flashcards but not without a very prepared teacher in the classroom, we as a teachers have to know that beyond to design beautiful material, we must have the capacity to improvise with the resources that we already have in the classroom.