My Teaching Context

Firstly, I would like to begin by saying that although I am not

teaching for the moment I have given classes before. I had my firs
experience about 6 months ago. It was in a school in Irapuato. I
have to say that this colegio is a very beautiful place for students to
study. I taught 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th graders. One interesting fact is that
this school is a catholic private school. Every class had a minimum
of 25 students. I truly believe that having this amount of students
helps both teacher in his/her teaching and students in their learning
process. Even though it was my first experience as an English
teacher; I really enjoyed the short time that I taught to these
students. Especially 3rd graders because I think that these students
were the ones that really behaved properly and really wanted to
learn English. By saying this I do not mean that 3rd graders are the
best kind of students because each school is different and it can
vary. The main point is that I acquired a lot of experience and that I
faced some issues that I was afraid of when teaching. For instance,
talking to people out loud.
In Colegio del Bosque they follow some methologies; for instance:
TPR, PPP and the audio lingual method.
The course book is called blue planet and there are some others
also. I believe that the course books are very complete and
appropriate books for students, because they include many reading
exercises; they also have listening, writing and speaking exercises.
And what is more important is that the course books works on the 4
skills of the students. Plus they come with CD roms.
By that time I had never given classes before so it was a great
experience for me and I can say that I really learned a lot. Now I
beleive that I am more student-centered because of that experience.