Micro classes

Today the society live immerse in constantly changes, including the educational process. For this reason teachers should be in a continual investigation, being update to offer an adequate education. This is being developed since the trainer is in formation. This is a reason why we did in our Methodology course two demonstrations and a micro class.

The Demonstrations consisted on develop a class in which we had to teach some language skills and components. The purpose of did them was that we were used to develop skills and components for each class. As well as was important give them a communicative goal. Then, we had to do a micro class, with the purpose of mix all together and also, to choose what were the best skills and components for each class in order to make an appropriate and communicative class. The main objective in those micro class was giving to the learners a communicative goal in which they can used in real life what was teaching in the classroom. In addition, it was important to make clear the stages that should be develop during the teaching of the skills.

From my personal point of view, this kind of activities for us as future teachers are important because we need to be well prepared at the time we face real students. At my first demonstration I had lot of mistakes, then with practice, some advices from Professor Nahir Aparicio and Victor Ojeda and giving practice to the theories we saw I could do a better job. I have to recognize that at the beginning I did not see the necessity of all those classes and demonstration, but now I realize how important is to have all those experience before face teaching a language.

We need to remember that we work with human beings, and this fact is an important aspect to consider. We need to know how we can evaluate our students, how they can appreciate better a content, how they can learn that content better, how to motivate them, which strategies, techniques and resources use, how to give them instructions, how much the teacher and the students need to speak, how to use the language according to the level, and so on… And we need to know all these in order to make the learning process more significant, useful and proper for the students.