Escuela Rural Pargua
Teaching Space:
The miss most of time is in front of the class or behind her desk, sometimes she moves around the class to a see a few students, if they are doing their activities. I suggest that the teacher used that space because there is not enough space to move around.
In every class, there are more than 30 students and the classrooms are small for the amount of students.
But she has a great advantage, she is tall and she can observe the whole class in front of them.
I think that she has to move more around the class although she can observe from distance, because she can observe closer the many students that need special support when they are doing their activities, because not all the students learn at the same time, some of them are slower and others finish the activities quickly. In both cases the teacher needs be aware to prevent future problems.
Also she can help the students that did not understand and answer some questions.
A good advantage of the teaching move is that a lot of students get confidence in the teacher and lose their fears and prevent misbehavior.
Eye Contact:
Most of the time the teacher does not have eye contact with the students because she is worried of pass the contents and the activities than observe each of them. Sometimes she looks at a student that is doing something wrong (bad conducts or misbehavior) and she inmediately call him or her for his name and has eye contact with someone. Also when she is asking for a an answer sometimes looked at someone that she think has the correct answer she tries to persuade them with her eye contact.
Body Language
She does not express to much with her body movements, sometimes she moves her hand to give some instruction, and moves her feet when she is waiting for an answer.
She walks around to see if the students are working and make an angry face when someone is not working or talk too much with classmates.
When the students are untidy , she is stands up in front of the class, and with idly wait for the students´ calm.
I think she has to perform more face gestures to demonstrate them some concepts of when she is teaching. These body movement will help students be engaged in the class.
About the Activities that she realises in class:
I will be critic in this point because I am not agree with the teacher's activities, first because they are boring I mean she always teach grammar, she writes the exercises in the white board and wait that the students answer them.
I spoke with some students of 7th grade and they told me that they really like english because they know that it is an important subject for their lives and it will help them in the future, but when I had my turn of ask about the activities they were agree that the activities are boring they want to listen some songs in english or do some speaking activities.
I am completely agree with that, one of my goals is that those students learn to speak in English , be able to communicate with pairs in this language. I am aware that the english teachers can do a lot of thing to win these students and try to involve them in this beautiful language.