Teaching Portfolio

Starting this experience I understood the importacia and relevance of creating a complete, didactic and inclusive portfolio because each  lesson is only as good as the planning that went into it. Lessons should be thought out carefully, recorded, and reviewed many times. Every lesson should be aimed at meeting the needs of a diverse group of students who all learn differently and attends to multiple intelligences. Even well planned lessons can fail but it is important to use any unsuccessful lessons to reflect and re-evaluate

I think admirable a teacher should encourage the development of their students but also increase the ongoing development of her own professional capacities.

I personally believe in constant and consistent self-evaluation, setting short term and long term goals, attending workshops, and seminars. I choose to be a teacher who does not only expect the best of their students but also of myself.

My Professional Development

             

My experience as a professional ,,, first speak of my experience as an English student, I can say that from the theoretical and practical was not lucky enough to find a teacher who could mention here in a positive sense but every experience is before all that experience, which already is positive. That is, there are experiences that teach us how to act, others that teach us how we should not do so, although it sounds daunting, in my experience with English will take care to describe what I learned that I should never do in my class now I'm going to devote to teaching. I learned that the two most demotivating things for me in the learning process are the lack of knowledge of material by the professor and his indifference to the teaching / learning process and, therefore, before the results of that process. I have to admit that in many cases the social, labor and economic context did not favor too development and professional conduct of teachers but inevitably arose comparison between the teaching of the two languages, Spanish and English, which also was It is performing parallel and in the same context. It is clear that the teacher can not know everything and has the right to make mistakes and to doubt, or to know the answer to a question; the knowledge is extended and deepened with the years of experience, but what should not be done in any case is to pretend, knowing what you do not know, afraid to admit it, invent the answers or indignant going to the "blacklist" students "too curious". So I learned that not knowing is not the problem, the problem is not wanting to know. Therefore, in my develop class strategies such "uncomfortable" situations: behave naturally, confess sincerely that I know the answer without giving too much importance to the matter and start looking (to look the word in the dictionary, for example) along with students if possible and if not, promise to find her. During my university education, I have changed my perception of the learning process and my learning style and certainly the methodology, psychological and professional picture of a teacher depends on a variety of factors, many of which are external and impossible to change at any given time so that my class I have as purpose has to do with methodology, teaching, research and motivation to make a positive impression on students and achieve reflection, experience, intuition, infer, predict, memorize, listen, watch, and work in group and individually because in the course of my training as a professional I have the certainty that depending on the attitude taken by the teacher to the material with cent much changes the perception of it by students. When a student starts studying a foreign language, not only takes good language skills and expand knowledge of culture, literature, history and geography of foreign language study, but also reinforces and deepens their knowledge of their native language (phonetics, grammar, vocabulary and syntax) of this eagerness to always reinforce my maternal student league of ants enter fully into an English lesson arises.

Peer Observation

The peer observation  is an excellent strategy because it helps the professional learning to improve teaching practices and student performance, intervenes favorably  the  professional development.

When teachers learn and realize how they are doing their job and what they need to improve it is why it is very valid and significant for teachers in a stage of initiation of his career observation in pairs.

 in a personal way you could say that by observing an experienced teacher I could get useful information about my strengths and weaknesses, also acquired new tools useful for my development as an undergraduate student in English.

Brief description of the class observed.

Upon entering the classroom I noticed that there is certain shyness although the teacher tries to persuade students that show this behavior I have occasionally difficult, but the pass classes are becoming more dynamic and interactive which makes students more timid distracted and participate in the lessons.

Eventhough the classes are not routine and the teacher has adequate qualifications and a very good professional training, I think every day is necessary to have important train, renew their skills and move forward to contributing to the formation of large competitive professionals and able would play in any field that applies.