experiences teaching of july

1. My first experiences
teaching.

2. My first experiences: Knowing my fears, expectations, and growing as a
professional.
One day, July, who at that moment had the opportunity to face her first
experience as a teacher, was very excited; it was in a project called
“Semilleros de Ingles”, in which we could find students from public schools
of the city where she lived.
So, those students went to the university and they received training in
English in order to trigger their knowledge about the language, but also to
enrich their school learning process focused on the English language.

3. In addition; she was not alone she was with a partner who knew and had
more experience teaching than July had, the good thing is that she could
learn from him things like classroom management, time management,
and how to develop an activity during the class; it was really meaningful
because she had not this kind of experience; so, when she see this it was
easier for her do that.
At the beginning July had lot of expectations about this first experience
teaching but at the same time she was a little concerned about it because she
learned many things at the university but it was only theory. So, July had
lot of ideas in her mind.

4. Also she had knowledge about the language and what she had to faced, but
what July was really worried about was how to apply all these things she
had in mind. However, she never gave up and all the time she tried to do her
best effort because the idea first was to explore and made that students felt
comfortable in class and that they could learn everything they needed for
that course and life.
Eventually, July was shocked when she had to face different students from
different schools, contexts, and cultures. So, she realized how diverse
students are and the importance of know students realities in order to have
a meaningful learning.

5. One day, I think it was a Tuesday in the afternoon one of July´s fears was
how she could teach her students and make that students learned many
things from her, but she always was wondering…
What happened if I could not do this?
What happened if students do not understand what I was trying to say?
If they do not like my activities or if they feel bored?
All of July´s partners had the opportunity to observe many classes in the
different institutions where they had this first experiences in front of a
board but July only had few opportunities to observe a teacher who had
experience teaching. Besides, what July really learned was how she could use
strategies to teach, but in her mind July thought that was not enough she
needed to explore and observe more things like all her partners could do it.

6. Nevertheless, July thought that she could do it. Also, she had learned many
things from her teachers, so now it was the moment to face this situation
and work hard to do this the best as possible.
As a consequence, July began to explore sources like web pages, books and
asking for advice in order to get materials, to know more about different
topics, strategies, and activities that July could apply with her students.
At the same time July was leaning from her partner who had more
experience than she had. Next, July had another real opportunity teaching

7. but she had to do it with teachers and she had to do it by herself that was
her first real experience as an English teacher. At the beginning was so
difficult for her and she started sweating and shaking.
In that moment she realized that..