The student found the teaching methods course very useful for their future career as a teacher. They learned different teaching techniques through activities presented by classmates. Each class was well organized and included interesting lead-in activities for university students. The course also helped the student learn a wide range of learning strategies and identify their own learning style. It was important to integrate skills into models like theme-based and task-based instruction. The student believes it is essential for English teachers to know which resources to use for different proficiency levels. Overall, the course provided valuable insights from authors on professional development and becoming an effective teacher.

1. Overall class reflection:
The course was very useful, because it gave me essential keys to becoming an
exceptional teacher in the future.
Firstly, I learned the different techniques used for teaching skills. Through the
activities presented by my classmates in each presentation, I could acquire new ideas
that will later be conducted in practice. In addition, each class was special, because it
was very well organized the lead in activities were very interesting to me as university
student, but I'm sure that the activities will be motivating to my teen students.
Obviously they must be adapted. I would imitate write the agenda down at the
beginning of class, I think it's a way to contextualize the students and this practice will
be useful, especially in the English course. On the other hand, the course helped me
to learn a wide range of techniques and learning strategies such as social, affective,
compensatory, mnemonic, cognitive and metacognitive strategies and discover my
learning styles.
I believe this will greatly benefit my future students, because by studying
methodologies, I will be able to identify the most convenient way of learning style of
my students. It was also essential to integrate the skills and use them in models such
as theme based instruction, task based, content based instruction among others. It was
interesting to analyze the models used in the Chilean educational context, subdividing
into the three most common types of establishments, public, subsidized and private
schools. Furthermore, teaching methodologies are chosen based on their effective
implementation.
I think that teachers who teach in secondary must be very careful in developing
mental abilities, so that students can practice these skills in the most profitable way.
Given the fact that English teachers are in charge of different courses with different
levels of proficiency, it is essential to know what resources must be used, taking into
account the most appropriate for each level. Therefore, it is crucial to denote the
selecting materials, the authenticity of them, and the skills to assess the effectiveness
and so on.
Finally, it was significant to know the guidelines by different authors such as
Brown, Allen and Ur on the professional development. It is important to want to be a
good teacher of a second language and want to make a contribution to learning and
development of students. I believe that the teacher should be an agent of change,
promoting not only thought, but also action, and gradually he/she will become a
professional.