Session 1

October 5th 

During this class, we knew the teacher, how he was going to develop the class, the syllabus and the assessment for the course.

Something discussed in class was the creation of safe learning environment, an environment where students feel that making a mistake it is part of their learning process, they won’t be judged for it and, that they will learn from them. To create this kind of environments it is necessary to know what type of students we have:

·       Students that know and answer.

·       Students that know but are silent.

·       Students that don’t know and don’t answer.

When we know our students, it is easier to build a safe learning environment.

Another part of the class that I liked was some the strategies the teacher used in order to engage us in class, to check our understanding, and the attention. All of these, just by asking simple questions that made us think about what was going on during that moment and, the way we understood different things (concepts, grammar structures). I enjoyed that I can use these simple strategies to promote critical thinking in my students, always making the necessary arrangements to be applied in every class.