The document describes activities from a teaching methods course. It discusses putting teaching roles into practice by having students teach 15 minute lessons on various skills. It then summarizes reflections on teaching a fruit salad preparation lesson. Later activities included analyzing the roles of a teacher in a movie, identifying factors that influence teaching roles, discussing values and attitudes as a teacher, and learning techniques for structuring classroom activities.

2. UNIT 3
On Tuesday, October 27th we started “The teaching
game” in order to put into practice the teaching roles
that we learned, we had to teach a 15 minute skill
lesson. Each of us had to do something different like
“make a good cup of coffee, fold clothes well, tie a
necktie, plant flowers, take photographs, upload files,
do origami, prepare a salad, a magic trick or our own
presentation”
On a riffle, I got that I would teach how to prepare a
salad.

3. My reflection on this activity: I made the
decision that teaching how to make a fruit
salad would be easier so that’s what I did. It
was so much fun and everyone enjoyed it as
much as I did. I bought fruit like apple, banana,
kiwi, blackberries, etc. This activity made us
learn a lot of things, when I first saw the
activity I thought they were like really simple
things but once I lived it, it taught me a lot like
I didn’t know how to do up a tie and it was so
hard but I did it!

5. We finished “The teaching game” on
Friday, November 13rd. And on
November 16th, we watched the
movie “Mr. Holland’s Opus”, it was
about a man named Mr. Holland who
was at the start of his teaching career
and he tries to make his students
understand and appreciates music.
Also, there came a time that his
relationship with his wife became
distant but he was able to fix it. Mr.
Holland inspired many students and
at the end his students made him an
amazing tribute for his retirement.

6. On Friday 20th, 2015, we had to
give a presentation where we
had to identify about at least 4 of
the roles that Mr. Holland played
as a teacher, also we had to
describe the scene where they
happened and the role and
determine which role Mr.
Holland was the most successful
at and identify 3 reasons why.

7. Reflections on this activity: My team and I decided
that Mr. Holland participated in the movie as a
participant in the part where he organizes a marching
band, as a controller when he had to give his first
class, prompter when he asked the students what
kind of music did they like and then he played the
song on the piano and as an assessor because he
assessed the reddish hair girl who couldn’t play
clarinet as her parents would like her to do it.
According to edutopia, in the past, teacher were told
what, when, and how to teach. They were required to
educate every student in exactly the same way using
the same methods, many teachers today, however,
are encouraged to adapt new practices that
acknowledge both the art and science of learning.

8. On Tuesday November 24th, 2015 we saw a
very interesting topic which is called “factors
influencing roles”, and we learned that teachers
have duties, rights and obligations for example, we
have the right to be listened, to be respected, to
punish learners’ misbehavior and the right to
impose discipline on learners. We, as teachers have
the obligation to attend your classes and be on
time, to teach your students and respect their
opinion and to identify students’ needs and teach
them how to treat others with respect. And last but
no least we have the duty to have a good attitude
towards your students, to encourage them to be
better and achieve great things, to have a class
prepared and to set work for learners.

9. Reflections on this activity: On November 24th, our
teacher Amalia gave us some color papers and asked
us to write for example “in the yellow paper, physical
things that are important in your life, in the orange
paper your goals, in the purple paper, places that are
important, in the pink paper people that are
important in your life and in the white paper things
that have happened to you that made you change,
and after writing them we had to eliminate some of
them until we had 3, and those 3 things that we had
at the end are things that influence your values. I
really liked this activity because these kind of
activities make you think and you realize that it’s all
true.

10. • On November 28th, 2015 we learned about values,
attitudes and beliefs we have as teachers, our values are
the basis of our attitudes and our attitudes affect our
behavior. We have some beliefs about teaching and
others about learning. We had an activity where we had
to write our beliefs as a teacher and as a student. The
beliefs I have as a teacher are: I believe, teachers have to
prepare something extra besides what they are supposed
to. Teachers have to facilitate things to encourage
students’ critical thinking and I don’t believe in written
exams but in tasks and activities and the students’ effort.
The beliefs I have as a student are I believe you have to
work outside school if you want to learn, I believe you as
a student have the responsibility to learn and I believe
you have to be interested in learning.
• Reflections on this activity: I really liked writing my
beliefs as a teacher and student because never thought
of them before, and after writing them I realized how
much I have to work as a teacher because I want to
achieve the beliefs I have as a student.

11. • On Tuesday, November 1st, we discussed
about values, attitudes and beliefs again
and we made an activity where we had to
write the value, if we value negatively or
positively and the behavior. For example, if
we write HONESTY and the action is the
students cheating on exams, the behavior
you’ll have as a teacher might be picking
up the exam and grade it zero. We also
learned about the stages on students’
learning, they are: black & white: in which
authority tests on the teacher who is
assumed to know everything. The second
one is relative: in which the learner can
see anothers’ points of view, learner can
solve a problem and work independently
and the third one is commitment in which
the student commites him or herself to an
idea or concept.

12. • There are some activities and techniques
you can make with your students to arrange
them in a variety of ways, it can be: line ups
– where students change partners when the
last person on the left moves to the right
and faces a new person. Another thing is
mingling – where students move around the
room in a cocktail party styles getting new
partners and chatting. Or stations: students
move to different parts of the room to do
activities, the teacher can also have
students remain in place and rotate pieces
of paper with activities written. Or fluency
circles where students get a new partner
each time the outer or inner circle moves
one person to the right. This can be defined
effective for short practice exercises.

13. Reflection on this activity:
Having different techniques to arrange
students is so effective because in that
way students don’t get bored doing
the same things over and over again.
“Effective teachers have a classroom
management plan with all the
procedures necessary for a classroom
to run consistently and smooth for
learning to take place” – Harry &
Rosemary Wong

14. • On December 4th, 2015 we saw the
interaction patterns, the basic building
block of a lesson is the task or activity.
But we have to think how can we
make the most of activities?
Something that learners do that
involves them using or working with
language to achieve some specific
outcome. The outcome may reflect a
real-world outcome.

15. Reflection on this activity: Something that
really caught my attention in this class was
something that our teacher told us “Our brain
can’t complete simultaneous tasks at the
same time”. That’s why, we have to be clear
to ourselves of what it is that the students are
supposed to be doing and what outcome our
lesson is leading to. We have to think of a
lesson as a coherent sequence of learner
tasks and what outcome our lesson is leading
to.

16. • On December 8th, 2015 we learned
what we have to do before, in-class
and after the activity, before the
lesson you have to familiarize yourself
with the material, and you have to
think how you are going to make your
class MEANINGFUL to your students,
you have to try the activity yourself
and imagine how it will look in class.
You also have to think how long will it
probably take and if the learners
know enough language to make a
useful attempt at the activity, what
errors are they likely to make, what
will your role be at each stage and
what will happen if you plan student
work in pairs but there’s an uneven
number of students.

17. • While setting up the activity you have to
give clear instructions, allow some
individual work and also organize
students, you can make pairs or groups,
moving the seating, etc. But how can you
organize them in a meaningful and funny
way? You can make the playing cards, the
birthday line-up, colors and numbers
(these are the most common), who’s
your partner?, mix-freeze group, corners,
“famous pairs”, mix n’ match, popsicle
sticks or similarity groups in this you can
use images from a topic, here students
get up and move about the class,
grouping with those who have a similar
response.

18. • When closing the activity, you
have to close it properly, but if you
see your students so engaged with
the activity you can give them a
time warning so they don’t get
frustrated.

19. • My reflections on this activity: In
this class Miss Amalia gave us some
books where we had to choose an
activity and figure out how to make
it meaningful for our students and
we are going to present that
activity on Friday for our
classmates. I love trying to make
my lessons meaningful because
that way students won’t forget
what teachers teach them.