My period of internships
at school
I
am going to tell you my experience when I was doing internships at school. I
hope you enjoy it!
Last
year, in September, I started my period of internships at a public school which
provides pre-school and primary education.
I
was doing internships in sixth of primary education. Moreover, I was in fourth
of primary education teaching the subject “Arts and Crafts” in english with
other classmate. I spent most of the time in sixth and only three hours per
week in fourth. In sixth course, I had twenty-four pupils; twelve were girls
and twelve were boys. I also had four pupils who has special educational needs.
Since the beginning of the year, the pupils were organized in pairs but with
the passage of time they were organized individually because they talked a lot.
The classroom was equipped with a lot of materials and technology; one digital
whiteboard, one traditional blackboard, one computer for the teacher,
individual computers for the children, dictionaries… The walls of the classroom
were a valuable space because they were decorated with maps and posters.
During my period of internships, I
taught in sixth course different subjects: mathematics, Spanish language,
Galician, natural sciences, social sciences and Arts and Crafts. When I was
teaching these subjects I cleared up some questions, I did many dictations, I
explained different lessons, I corrected many exams, compositions, exercises
and works that the pupils did.
Now,
I am going to show you some activities that I prepared for the pupils in sixth
course.
1.-“Pulmonary
Ventilation”: I prepared this activity because the
pupils didn’t understand the pulmonary ventilation. The previous day, I said to
them that they had to bring at the class some materials to built the bottle.
The next day, they built the bottle step by step at the same time I was
explaining what they had to do. In the end, I explained the pulmonary ventilation
with the bottle. They enjoyed a lot and they were very attentive.
2.-“Poster board with panels”:
In this activity, the pupils chose a book in Galician. They had to explain the
book to the rest of the class drawing six panels in a poster board.
3.- “Mildews”: I explained the mildews to the pupils and I
suggested them to bring at the class some foodstufs with mildews. They bring
the foodstufs with mildews and each pupil explained to the rest of the class
what happened to his/her food.
Now,
I am going to show you some activities that I prepared for the pupils in fourth
course in relation to the subject “Arts and Crafts”.
1.- “Geometric shapes series”:
In this activity, each pupil had to continue the geometric shapes series with
the pencil. Then, they coloured each figure with crayons.
2.- “Doing a drawing with geometric shapes”: In this activity, the pupils cut out cardboards doing geometric shapes. They did a drawing pasting the geometric shapes.
To
sum up, during my period of internships I noticed the educational level of the
pupils, their motivation to learn different subjects and the cooperation
between the pupils and their difficulties. In the future, as a teachers, it’s
important to know their difficulties, their educational needs and adjust our
knowledges to the children. Moreover, it’s essential to motivate the children
because they will learn with more eagerness and, of course, the teacher has to
enjoy what he/she is doing.
This was my experience
in my period of internships. I suggest you to see this video which it gives you
advices for teachers.
Moreover, I invite you
to see these web pages about how to motivate students.
Mª Esther López Pérez
How interesting, Esther! I find very instructive your contribution to the blog. Your ideas are wonderful, dynamic and visual so pupils will understand the concepts better. It´s a fantastic way to motivate the children to learn.
ReplyDeleteInteresting post Esther! Some activities that you explain here seems very useful. Next year, during my Practicum period I'll try to do some activities like that.
ReplyDeleteI hope to enjoy during these months!
Good work, Esther – it looks like both you and your students had a good time on teaching practice. The video and links were great too! As a future professional, what would you say was the most important thing you learned during the teaching practice?
ReplyDeleteI liked this post Esther! It gave me some ideas for the next year!
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