My first Class...

My first teaching experience was with Advanced II. Since the beginning I was really nervous because they are a large group, and also because they are English advanced students so I had to be really careful with my pronunciation and grammar. I started my class with a warm up activity following the teacher´s recommendations. He asked me to develop an activity related to adjectives because the topic was “the adjective order”, so I did it. The activity consisted in reorder unscrambles sentences in the correct way. Of course, in the sentences they were going to find different adjectives in order to practice what they had learned in the last class with the teacher. During the activity I felt better because the students were cooperating with me and following the instructions about what they had to do during the warm up activity. After the activity finished, the nerves came back because I had to continue with the class. The teacher had explained the grammar part in the previous class so what I had to do was continuing with the practice that was not something really easy as I believed it. As a teacher you have to be really careful about details. You have to know that students are going to make mistakes, and that they are going to have more than one answer, but before the class I did not expect it, and  I felt confident because I had solved the practice at home. I assumed that reviewing the homework was going to be an easy task, but it was not so easy. They had different answers even though it was a controlled practice.  They asked me if they could do it in different ways and if not why not. For a moment I panicked because I did not know how to respond to their doubts. After that incident, I had to continue so I asked them to work in pairs. When they were working on the exercises, they asked for the meaning of some words that they did not know. I had looked for the meaning in advance so it was easy for me to help them. To finish the activity I asked them to share their answers in an oral way to compare them with the ones from the other classmates. In this form they could verify if they had ordered the adjectives in the correct way or not. At the end of my class I noticed that I made a lot of mistakes, but now I possess new experience that I did not have before and that I will try to improve by doing my best effort in the missing classes.