During a kindergarten lesson on parts of the face, the teacher used a video to activate prior knowledge. Most students repeated the vocabulary words in Spanish, their native language, instead of English. The teacher acknowledged this issue but continued encouraging English use. Transitions between activities needed improvement. However, the lesson objectives were achieved as students could identify and produce the vocabulary. The teacher interacted constantly with students and responded positively to all contributions to maintain motivation.

1. Self-Reflection Video Class 4
Kindergarten
During this lesson, a video was used. That video was related with the topic (parts of
the face), so not only in this class but also in the most of them, I activated the prior
knowledge making some questions about different topics that they have been
learned such as what color is it? How many…? (And I mimed with my fingers that I
counted to they realize), etc.
As Aurelia marked, while the students were playing ‘Simon Says’ the most of them
repeat the part of the face in Spanish. I consider that this is not useful, and I would
have liked that this situation was different, but as I mentioned in the previous self –
report, they used to speak in Spanish, so the most of them repeat the vocabulary in
their mother language and I repeated it again using English to encourage them to
use the second language. During the whole class I stayed positive and in spite of
their behavior, always smiled and congratulated when they say something in
English, using expressions such as “very good”, “excellent” and so on.
On the other hand, I know that I have to work more on transitions, to present a
video or song to catch the student’s attention. So during the next classes, I changed
that using different transitions so they could know what would be the next activity.
During this class, the aims were completely achieved, as students could produce the
vocabulary and they recognized them correctly. Here I interacted with the students
all the time, asking them to answer some questions to check comprehension,
asking to repeat the structures o vocabulary after me, etc.
Last but not least, during the classes I responded positively to every student’s
contribution and valued them, offering them a positive feedback and
congratulating them. This is very important because in that way they felt highly
motivated, willing to participate, and actively involved.