The teacher reflected on their kindergarten classroom performance. They found it difficult to get the talkative class to sit still in a circle due to the large group size. Using a puppet helped gain the students' attention to introduce new topics and activities. It was challenging for the students to understand instructions in English since they normally spoke in Spanish. The teacher tried to make the activities engaging and ensure students felt comfortable learning. Going forward, the teacher wants to better explain activities so all students can participate and be more firm in gaining attention since some students struggled with discipline and turns. Choosing assistants helped two disruptive students. Overall, the teacher felt good about speaking English in class and building rapport to encourage student participation.

1. Self-Reflection Video Class 3
Kindergarten
I consider really interesting reflect about my performance in the classroom and take into
account all the observations from my headteacher.
First of all and taking into account that this is a big group, they are quite talkative and on
many occasions I could not make that the whole class sit down on the floor in a circle, so it
was quite hard to obtain a good classroom dynamics and start with my activities.
However, the use of a frog puppet helped me to call their attention and also I used it to
introduce new topics, videos, games and so on. Here it is important to bear in mind that
they used to speak in Spanish during the whole class, the only moment that they used the
second language was when they listened to a song or video, so it was really hard that they
could understand me and follow the games. Although, the whole class has been adapted to
suit the students’ level; that is, there were different games so as students could feel at ease
to learn and practice items. Also during my classes, I tried to use engaging videos for
children of that age, all the time I sought to they feel comfortable and enjoy.
Regarding giving instructions, as Aurelia marked in the feedback, I recognize that I would
have liked to explain the activity better, to make that the whole class could participate and
not only some students. Also, I have to be more firm at the moment to call their attention
because there are some disciplines difficulties, they did not respect their turns at the
moment to play, watch a video or make a specific activity. So here, I stopped the class,
talked in Spanish to understand me; but there were two children who run and argue all the
time. Here I decided to choose them as an assistant and sit down next to me. They were
happy to be in that place.
Apart from these problems I feel quite good to speak in English almost the entire class and
make that the students have the necessary approach to that wonderful language. Also, a
good atmosphere was created and a good rapport as well, for them to participate and feel
involved in every activity.